January 30: The first episode of Mickey Mouse, Eega Beeva and the Mook Treasure by Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson is published. The story, published at the height of the Cold War, is overly anti-communist and portrays the villain Peg-Leg Pete as a Soviet officer.
April 1: The Nero story De Hoed van Geeraard de Duivel is first published in the newspapers. Halfway the story the main cast member Madam Pheip makes her debut.[2]
April 14: The first issue of the British comics magazine Eagle is published. It will run (in two incarnations) until 1994. In its first issue Frank Hampson's Dan Dare makes its debut.
Crypt of Terror debuts with issue #17 (April/May cover date), continuing the numbering of Crime Patrol — EC Comics
September 4: Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey makes its debut.[8] Though the original comic strip is set at college and will only be set at a military base in March 1951.[9]
September 5: The Nero story Moea Papoea is first published in the newspapers. Halfway the story the main cast member Petoetje makes his debut.
September 15: The first issue of the Dutch comics magazine Grabbelton is published, a supplement of De Katholieke Illustratie. it will last until 4 September 1954.[12]
September 24: Kreigh Collins' Mitzi McCoy changes its title to Kevin the Bold. It will continue under this title until 1968, whereupon it changes to another title, Up Anchor, and continues until 1972.[13]
October 2:Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts appears for the first time in seven US newspapers. In the first episode Charlie Brown makes his debut (although he originated in Schulz' previous series Li'l Folks).[1]
In films, Destination Moon is the first color science fictionfilm, and the first big budget science fiction film since Things to Come in 1936. DC Comics is quick to pick up on the renewed interest of the public in science fiction, and a still from Destination Moon is cover of the new science fiction comic book Strange Adventures, soon joined by a companion book Mystery in Space.
May 18: Jenö Jeney, Hungarian illustrator, editorial cartoonist and comics artist, dies at age 75.[22]
Specific date unknown: Mario Silva Ossa, aka Coré, Chilean illustrator and comics artist (Quentin el Aventurero), dies at age 37.[23]
June
June 7: W.O. Wilson, South African-American comic artist (The Richleigh Family, The Wish Twins, Madge the Magician's Daughter), dies at age 84.[24]
July
July 9: Salvador Bartolozzi, Spanish illustrator, theatrical set designer, comics artist (Pipo y Pipa, Pinocho contra Chapete) and publisher (founder of the children's magazine Pinocho), dies at age 68.[25]
July 26: Eduard Thöny, Austrian-German cartoonist, dies at age 84.[26]
August
August 1: Raoul Thomen, Belgian-French comics artist (Marius, comics based on Charlie Chaplin), dies at age 83.[27]
October
October 2: J. Carlos, Brazilian comics artist (Lamparina, Juquinha, Almofadinha & Melindrosa), dies of a brain stroke at age 66.[28]
October 9: Harry Moyer, A.K.A. Hy Moyer, Canadian comics artist (Nothing But The Truth, Java Bean), dies in a car accident at age 65 or 66. [29]
Specific date unknown
Fred Nankivel, American illustrator and comics artist (Sing Sing Sid, Uncle Mun), dies at age 63 or 64.[30]
Charles W. Saalberg, American illustrator and comics artist (The Ting-Lings), dies at age 84 or 85.[31]
