The first number of Albi d’Oro (Golden albums), anthological magazine edited by Mondadori, centered moreover on the Disney comics.
June
In Al Capp's Li'l Abner the character Lena the Hyena is introduced. "The world's ugliest woman" is an unseen character who is always obscured from view, but characters react in horror to her ugliness. Her face will finally be revealed five months later.[10]
July 15: The first issue of Fantax magazine is published. The character, by Marcel Navarro and Pierre Mouchot, had debuted two months earlier on Paris-Monde Illustré.
September 7: The first number of Albi dell’ardimento (Bravery albums), an anthological magazine is published, edited by Edizioni Alpe, centering on Western comics.
September 9: Honey and Hank, aka Elsworth by Bernard Segal, aka Seeg, makes its debut. It will run until 1958.[15]
September 20: The British comics magazine The Comet is first published. It will run until 17 October 1959, after which it merges into the magazine Tiger.[16]
October 1: Jack Dunkley's educational comic Patsy makes its debut. It will run until 1951. [20]
October 21: After five months of playing with readers' expectations the previously unseen characterLena the Hyena in Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner is finally revealed to the audience. Her design was part of a readers' contest won by a still unknown cartoonist Basil Wolverton. The exposure finally launches his career.[10]
December 12: In the French magazine OK, the first chapter of Arys Buck et son épée magique (Arys Buck and his magical sword), by Albert Uderzo is published. In 1946 he also publishes his first album, Les Aventures de Clopinard.
November 29: Carlos Leopardi, Argentine comics artist (Atila, worked on Nippur de Lagash), (d. 2004).[28]
Deaths
January
January 2: O'Galop, French painter, illustrator, graphic designer, animator and comics artist (Le Supplice de la Roue, Fifi Céleri), dies at age 78.[29]
March 2: Don Newhouse, British comics artist (Bertie Blobbs, comics based on Charlie Chaplin, continued Pitch and Toss, Our Saucy Shipwrecked Mariners), dies at age 62.[30]
March
March 29: Benjamin Kilvert, A.K.A. Benjamin Cory, American illustrator, painter and comics artist (Muffy Shuffles), dies at age 66. [31]
June
June 15: Charles Forbell, American comics artist (Naughty Pete), dies at age 71.[32]
August
August 3: Viktor Deni, Russian cartoonist and poster designer (made sequential propaganda cartoons and comics), dies at age 53.[33]
September
September 3: Constant Dratz, Belgian painter, poster artist and comic artist (L'Étrange Aventure de Tom-Tom aux Amériques), dies at age 71. [34]
September 16: Francisque Poulbot, French illustrator and cartoonist, dies at age 67.[35]
October
October 5: Monte Crews, American illustrator and comic artist (The Mysterious Family Next Door), dies at age 88. [36]
October 24: Dmitry Moor, Russian artist, poster designer and cartoonist, dies at age 62.[37]
Specific date unknown
Albert Lanmour, French illustrator and comics artist (Les Années de Service de Théodore Tiroflan, Le Hoquet d'Hector Boyaux), dies at age 58 or 59.[38]
Red W. Shellcope, American comics artist (Jimmie the Messenger Boy), dies at age 66 or 67.[39]
Initial appearances by character name
Fantax, created by Marcel Navarro and Pierre Mouchot.
^"Young April 12, 1948 Findings of Facts". Scribd. Retrieved 11 December 2016. DETECTIVE COMICS, INC. was a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, and was one of the constituent corporations consolidated on September 30, 1946 into defendant NATIONAL COMICS PUBLICATIONS, INC.
