February 21 - March 2: The first edition of the Salone Internazionale dei Comics is held in Bordighera, Italy.[7] The next edition will take place in Lucca and thus grow out to become the Lucca Comics festival.
April 1: As an April fool's joke, the covers of the rival comic magazines Tintin and Spirou are redesigned to make the Tintin cover look like Spirou and vice versa, complete with restyled logos and lay-out. The joke was thought up by Spirou editor Yvan Delporte in collaboration with Tintin's editors.[13]
April 4: The Masked Cucumber (Concombre Masqué) makes his debut in Nikita Mandryka's comic Boff in Vaillant. A week later the strange character receives his own long-running spin-off series.[14]
April 12: Since Marc Sleen is contractually unable to publish a new The Adventures of Nero story for three months Willy Vandersteen and Eduard De Rop create a cut-and-paste comic strip named De Geschiedenis van Sleenovia, which features Nero characters but drawn by Studio Vandersteen. It runs in De Standaard for three months, but after only three episodes the comic strip is modified for copyright issues, as Het Volk sues De Standaard for making an unauthorized copy of their former hit comic strip. After a few weeks the legal battle is solved and the story is allowed to continue as planned. It runs until 30 June, after which Sleen finally makes the first Nero story for De Standaard.[17]
July 24–25: The first Detroit Triple Fan Fair is held in Detroit, Michigan by Shel Dorf, Jerry Bails, Carl Lundgren, Tom Altschuler, Ed April, Noel Cooper, Gary Crowdus, Howard Devore, Marvin Giles, Dennis Kowicki, Larry Larson, Eugene Seeger and Robert Brosch. Although a convention for various multigenre it features comic books as a major component too, making it the oldest regularly held comic book convention in the world. It will run until 1977.[30][31][32]
September 6: Formiche rosse (Red Ants), by Gian Luigi Bonelli and Guglielmo Letteri ; the Egyptian El Morisco, scholar of occult arts and partner of Tex Willer in many stories of a supernatural nature, makes his debut.[33]
September 17:Gli adoratori del sole (The sun’s worshippers) by Guido Nolitta and Gallieno Ferri; the clumsy detective Bat Batterton, recurring character in the Zagor’s adventures, make his debut.[34]
September 20: Bob Weber Sr.'s Moose makes its debut, which will be retitled to Moose Miller in 1971 and eventually Moose & Molly in 1998. The series will continue until 2020.[36][37]
October 17: In the Disney magazine Topolino, Paperino e le vacanze solitarie, by Rodolfo Cimino and Giovan Battista Carpi is first published. It marks the debut of Anacleto Mitraglia, the equivalent of Neighbor Jones in the Italian Disney comics.
In the 98th issue of MadAl Jaffee's Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions makes its debut.[41]
November
November 26: The first French satellite A-1 is launched, which is later renamed Astérix, after the eponymous comics character.[42]
December
December 9: The final episode of Bob van den Born's Professor Pi is published.[43]
December 19: Jean Tabary's Corinne et Jeannot, a spin-off of Totoche, first appears in print in the magazine Vaillant.[44]
Dell Comics publishes Lobo, starring the first African-American character to headline his own series. The stories are written by Don "D. J." Arneson and drawn by Tony Tallarico.[45]
June 11: Frank Tinsley, American illustrator and comic artist (Bill Barnes, Yankee Doodle A.K.A. Captain Yank), dies at age 65.[61]
Specific date unknown: Roy Wilson, British comics artist (George the Jolly Gee Gee, Chimpo's Circus worked for Funny Wonder, Film Fun and TV Fun), dies at age 64.[62]
July
July 14: Marianne Frimberger, Austrian children's book illustrator and comics artist (Die fünf Negerlein), dies at age 88.[63]
August
August 2: Ving Fuller, American comics artist (Doc Syke), dies at age 62.[64]
August 15: Julio E. Suárez, Uruguayan radio presenter, painter, caricaturist, teacher, journalist and comics artist (Peloduro, Cocona en el país de las Hormigas), dies at age 59.[65]
September
September 1: René Giffey, French illustrator and comics artist (Ninette et Cloclo, M. Dupont, Détective, Nigaude et Malicette, Les Frôle-la-Mort, Jean Lion le Spahi, Les Assiégés de Médine, Le Capitaine Fracasse, Les Compagnons de Jéhu, Cinq-Mars, Colomba, La Vénus d'Ille and Carmen, continued L'Espiègle Lili), dies at age 81.[66]
September 11: Valentí Castanys Borràs, Spanish radio presenter and comics artist (Pepito Holmes, Sergapo, el Lusitano, El vado del valor, Andanzas de Loanillo, Don Bartolo, Gotán, el Mono Sabio), dies at age 67.[67]
September 12: André Galland, French illustrator, journalist, poster designer and comics artist (Achille Costaud, Ninette et Cloclo, continued L'Espiègle Lili and Marco, Gars du Voyage), dies at age 79.[68]
November 9: Eduardo Abela, Cuban comics artist, painter and illustrator (El Bobo), dies at age 76.[70]
December
December 8: Jack Gordon, British comics artist (worked for The Beano), dies at age 74 or 75.[71]
December 15: Albert Dorne, American ilustrator and comic artist (made advertising comics), dies at age 59. [72]
Specific date unknown
Robert Louis Raemakers, Jr., Dutch illustrator and comics artist (continued Flippie Flink), dies at age 55 or 56 from injuries he suffered during a car accident.[73]
Maurice Ketten, Italian comics artist (Can You Beat It, Such Is Life, Poor Little Income), dies at age 89 or 90.[74]
Quincy Scott, American cartoonist and comics artist (Horseback Honeymoon), dies at age 82 or 83.[75]
Sep E. Scott, British comic artist, illustrator and painter (drew comics for Knockout, Sun and Thriller Comics Library), dies at age 85 or 86. [76]
Tales of Suspense (1959 series) #64 - Marvel Comics - The first Silver Age appearance of the Red Skull (revealed to be an imposter; the real one appears in the next issue) by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby
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^McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 115: "Writer Bob Haney and artist Nick Cardy added another member to the ranks of the newly formed Teen Titans: Wonder Girl."
^McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 115: "Although it would be several months before Buddy Baker would take on the moniker of Animal Man, it was in this issue that he developed animal powers...[in a story by] writer Dave Wood and artist Carmine Infantino."
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