1943 in comics


Notable events of 1943 in comics.

Events and publications

January

January 24: Milton Caniff's Male Call makes its debut. It will run until 3 March 1946.

February

February 19: Hergé's Tintin story Red Rackham's Treasure is prepublished in Le Soir.

March

March 4–5: Halfway the Tintin story Red Rackham's Treasure Professor Calculus makes his debut.

Spring Issue

April

May

May 10: Jack Sparling's Claire Voyant makes its debut. It will run until 1948.May 16: The final issue of the Italian comics magazine L'Avventuroso is published.

June

June 20: Harry Haenigsen's Penny makes its debut. It will run until 1970.

Summer Issue

July

July 4: Jimmy Hatlo's Little Iodine receives her own spin-off comic. It will run until 1985.July 18: Kathleen O'Brien's Wanda the War Girl first appears in print.July 24:

August

September

September 10: The final episode of the Italian comics magazine Bertoldo is published.September 27: In Bob Karp and Al Taliaferro's Donald Duck comic strip Grandma Duck makes her debut as a character.

Fall Issue

October

October 4: Alfred Andriola and Allen Saunders' Kerry Drake makes its debut. It will run until 1983.October 17: In an episode of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates Filip Corkin gives a patriotic speech about comradery in the U.S. army. The next day politician John Carl Hinshaw reads it to the Congressional Record. The page becomes a classic and will often be reprinted.October 23: Péricles de Andrade Maranhão, aka Péricles, launches the comic strip O Amigo da Onça.

November

November 1: The first episode of Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer is published. It will run until 21 April 1979.

December

December 21: In Chester Gould's Dick Tracy the villain Flattop makes his debut.December 26: Joseph Hughes Newton's Tullus makes its debut. It will run until 1976.December: Gene Autry Comics publisher changes from Fawcett to Dell Comics.

Winter Issue

Births

January

January 7: Liz Berube, American comics artist and colorist, known for romance comics,.January 29: Steve Skeates, American comic writer,.

November

November 11: Dave Cockrum, American comics artist,.

Specific date unknown

  • Asher Dikstein, Israeli comic artist,.

Deaths

January

January 28: Eddie Eks, American comics artist, dies at age 60.

March

March 3:
  • * Otto Luihn, Norwegian journalist, poet and comics writer, dies from heart failure at age 52.
  • * Karóly Mühlbeck, Slovakian-Hungarian painter, graphic artist, caricaturist and comics artist, dies at age 73.March 28: Pete Llanuza, American comics artist, dies at age 70.

April

April 3: Joe Cunningham, American actor, sports writer and comics artist, dies at age 52 from coronary disease.April 9: Felix Hess, Dutch illustrator, painter, etcher and comics artist, dies at age 64 in concentration camp Sobibor.April 26: Frank Ladendorf, aka Lads, American comics artist, dies at age 82.

June

June 16: Nicholas Afonsky, Russian-American comics artist, dies at age 51.

July

July 8: Jean Moulin, French resistance fighter and cartoonist, dies at age 44, after being captured by the Gestapo.

September

September 14: John R. Neill, American illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 65.

October

October 10: Charlotte Salomon, German painter and comics artist, is gassed to death in Auschwitz at age 26.October 18: A.M. de Jong, Dutch novelist and comics writer is murdered by two SS soldiers at age 55.

December

December 29: Enrico Novelli, aka Yambo, Italian journalist, writer, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 69.

Specific date unknown

  • Herbert Sydney Foxwell, British comics artist, dies at age 52 or 53.
  • Worden Wood, American comics artist, dies at age 62 or 63.

First issues by title

;*Suspense Comics - Et-Es-Go Magazines

Initial appearances by character name