June 11:
Mike Roy's Akwas makes its debut. It will run until 28 March 1965.
June 20: The first issue of the British comics magazine Wham! is published and will run until 13 January 1968. In the first issue
Leo Baxendale's Eagle-Eye, Junior Spy makes its debut.
In Italy, Fantax (later renamed Fantasm), created by Furio Arrasich, makes his debut; it's the first of the several
fumetti neri trying to emulate the
Diabolik’s success.[11]
November 12 : in Chouchou, L’Étoile endormie, first episode of the French sci-fi saga Les Naufragés du Temps, by
Jean Claude Forest and Jean Gilon.[22]
December 1: The first issue of the Italian comics magazine Satanik is published and will run until 1974. In its first issue
Max Bunker and
Roberto Raviola (Magnus)'s Satanik makes its debut.
January 17: Percy Cocking, British comics artist (continued Weary Wilie and Tired Tim), dies at age 82.[27]
Specific date in January unknown: Glen Cravath, American comics artist and illustrator (Frank Buck), dies at age 66.[28]
February
February 9: Joe Farren, American comics artist (Hank and Knobs, Terry and Tacks), dies at age 79. [29]
February 10: Charlie Pease, British comics artist (Buck an' Nero, Mighty Monk, Plum and Duff, Dickie Duffer, Sally Sunshine and Her Shadow, Artie the Autograph Hunter, continued Billy Bunter and Casey Court), dies at age 59.[30]
September 17:
Jean Ray, aka
John Flanders, Belgian novelist and comics writer (wrote for Buth's Thomas Pips[44] and text stories by Antoon Herckenrath,[45] Gray Croucher,[46] Rik Clément[47]), dies at age 77.
November
November 5:
Mabel Lucie Attwell, British illustrator and comics artist (Wot A Life), dies at age 85.[48]
^McAvennie, Michael (2010). "1960s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle.
Dorling Kindersley. p. 110.
ISBN978-0-7566-6742-9. The Dark Knight received a much-needed facelift from new Batman editor Julius Schwartz, writer John Broome, and artist Carmine Infantino. With sales at an all-time low and threatening the cancellation of one of DC's flagship titles, their overhaul was a lifesaving success for DC and its beloved Batman.
^McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 111: "They were never given a team name when scribe Bob Haney and artist Bruno Premiani spun them against Mister Twister. However, this first team-up of Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad came to be classically regarded as the inaugural story of the Teen Titans."
^"Historian Collects Comics: They Are Works of Art," Detroit News (1965).
^Schelly, Bill. "1966: The Year Of THREE* New York Comicons!," Alter-Ego #53 (Oct. 2005).
^Schelly, Bill. Founders of Comic Fandom: Profiles of 90 Publishers, Dealers, Collectors, Writers, Artists and Other Luminaries of the 1950s and 1960s (McFarland, 2010), p. 131.
June 11:
Mike Roy's Akwas makes its debut. It will run until 28 March 1965.
June 20: The first issue of the British comics magazine Wham! is published and will run until 13 January 1968. In the first issue
Leo Baxendale's Eagle-Eye, Junior Spy makes its debut.
In Italy, Fantax (later renamed Fantasm), created by Furio Arrasich, makes his debut; it's the first of the several
fumetti neri trying to emulate the
Diabolik’s success.[11]
November 12 : in Chouchou, L’Étoile endormie, first episode of the French sci-fi saga Les Naufragés du Temps, by
Jean Claude Forest and Jean Gilon.[22]
December 1: The first issue of the Italian comics magazine Satanik is published and will run until 1974. In its first issue
Max Bunker and
Roberto Raviola (Magnus)'s Satanik makes its debut.
January 17: Percy Cocking, British comics artist (continued Weary Wilie and Tired Tim), dies at age 82.[27]
Specific date in January unknown: Glen Cravath, American comics artist and illustrator (Frank Buck), dies at age 66.[28]
February
February 9: Joe Farren, American comics artist (Hank and Knobs, Terry and Tacks), dies at age 79. [29]
February 10: Charlie Pease, British comics artist (Buck an' Nero, Mighty Monk, Plum and Duff, Dickie Duffer, Sally Sunshine and Her Shadow, Artie the Autograph Hunter, continued Billy Bunter and Casey Court), dies at age 59.[30]
September 17:
Jean Ray, aka
John Flanders, Belgian novelist and comics writer (wrote for Buth's Thomas Pips[44] and text stories by Antoon Herckenrath,[45] Gray Croucher,[46] Rik Clément[47]), dies at age 77.
November
November 5:
Mabel Lucie Attwell, British illustrator and comics artist (Wot A Life), dies at age 85.[48]
^McAvennie, Michael (2010). "1960s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle.
Dorling Kindersley. p. 110.
ISBN978-0-7566-6742-9. The Dark Knight received a much-needed facelift from new Batman editor Julius Schwartz, writer John Broome, and artist Carmine Infantino. With sales at an all-time low and threatening the cancellation of one of DC's flagship titles, their overhaul was a lifesaving success for DC and its beloved Batman.
^McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 111: "They were never given a team name when scribe Bob Haney and artist Bruno Premiani spun them against Mister Twister. However, this first team-up of Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad came to be classically regarded as the inaugural story of the Teen Titans."
^"Historian Collects Comics: They Are Works of Art," Detroit News (1965).
^Schelly, Bill. "1966: The Year Of THREE* New York Comicons!," Alter-Ego #53 (Oct. 2005).
^Schelly, Bill. Founders of Comic Fandom: Profiles of 90 Publishers, Dealers, Collectors, Writers, Artists and Other Luminaries of the 1950s and 1960s (McFarland, 2010), p. 131.