1945 in comics


Notable events of 1945 in comics.

Events and publications

Year overall

Real Screen Funnies debuts with a Spring 1945 cover date. The title changes to Real Screen Comics with the second issue and features The Fox and the Crow and other Columbia-licensed talking animal characters. -

January

January 8: The first episode of Moira Bertram's Jo is published.

February

March

March 1: Debut of Marmaduke Mouse by Ernie Hart.March 11: The Flemish comics magazine Ons Volkske, whose publication was interrupted at the outbreak of World War II, reappears on the market.March 25: Debut of Bruce Gentry by.March 30: Willy Vandersteen publishes Rikki en Wiske in De Nieuwe Standaard. It's the first Suske en Wiske story and marks the debut of the characters Wiske, Schanulleke and Tante Sidonia, even though his editor renamed the character Suske into Rikki, without his knowledge or approval. After one story Vandersteen will remove Rikki from the series and replace him with the remodelled character Suske.Captain America Comics #45 - Timely ComicsMarvel Mystery Comics #62 - Timely Comics

Spring Issue

Joker Comics #18 - Timely Comics

April

All-Winners Comics #15 - Timely ComicsCaptain Aero Comics #22 - Helnit PublishingCaptain America Comics #46 - Timely ComicsCat-Man Comics #27 - Helnit PublishingGreen Mask #1 - Fox Feature SyndicateHuman Torch Comics #18 - Timely ComicsMarvel Mystery Comics #63 - Timely ComicsSub-Mariner Comics #16 - Timely ComicsU.S.A. Comics #15 - Timely Comics

May

May 11: In Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Breathless Mahoney makes her debut.May 17: The Flemish newspaper De Zondagsvriend launches a children's supplement magazine, De Kleine Zondagsvriend, which will offer room for several comics series. It will run until 18 December 1963.

June

July

Summer Issue

Joker Comics #19 - Timely Comics

August

August 5: Debut of the Giles family by Carl Giles in The Daily Express and Sunday Express.Captain Aero Comics #23 - Helnit PublishingCaptain America Comics #49 - Timely ComicsCat-Man Comics #29 - Helnit PublishingSuspense Comics #9 - Continental Magazines
  • The final issue of the Belgian comics magazine Franc Jeu is published.

September

Green Mask #3 - Fox Feature SyndicateMarvel Mystery Comics #66 - Timely Comics

October

  • October 7: In Il Vittorioso, the first chapter of Pippo in montagna by Benito Jacovitti makes its debut. This is the first story starring the master criminal Zagar, antagonist of Cip.
  • October 14: In Disney comics, the first Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit comics appear in print. Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear will remain recurring comics characters for decades to come.
  • October 15: The first issue of the Dutch comics magazine Stripfilm is published. It also offers information about animation techniques, provided by the animation studio Stripfilm. The magazine will last until 23 November.October 19: The first episode of Olmo's gag comic Don Celes is published.October 22: The first episode of Phiny Dick's Olle Kapoen is published. Coen van Hunnik provides artwork but is later replaced by Richard Klokkers. The series will run until 15 November 1955.
  • October 26: In the Italian Fulmine giornale the first chapter of La legione del mistero by Andrea Lavezzolo and Carlo Cossio is published, which marks the return of detective Dick Fulmine. Although he was previously at the service of Fascist propaganda he is now recycled as a democratic hero and cuts down a neo-Nazi gang, led by a revived Adolf Hitler.
  • Belgian comics publisher Fernand Cheneval founds the first issue of the comics magazine Heroïc Albums. It will run until December 1956.
  • On the French magazine Clic-Clac Images, Uderzo debuts as cartoonist with Flamberge gentilhomme gascon.Captain America Comics #50 - Timely Comics
  • Daring Comics #12 - Timely ComicsHuman Torch Comics #20 - Timely ComicsU.S.A. Comics #17 - Timely Comics

Fall Issue

Joker Comics #20 - Timely Comics

November

November 11: Godfried Bomans and Carol Voges publish De Avonturen van Pa Pinkelman in De Volkskrant.November 12: Ray Gotto's Ozark Ike makes its debut.All-Winners Comics #17 - Timely ComicsCaptain Aero Comics #24 - Helnit PublishingHuman Torch Comics #21 - Timely ComicsMarvel Mystery Comics #67 - Timely Comics

December

December 11: Dutch comics artists Pieter Kuhn and Evert Werkman's first publish Kapitein Rob in Het Parool.December 15: after a four-year interruption, due to the Fascist censure, the magazine Topolino comes back in Italian newsstands. The same day, first issue of La Gazzetta dei piccoli, supplement for kids of Gazzetta del popolo. December 19: The story Op Het Eiland Amoras starts in De Nieuwe Standaard. This marks the first official Suske en Wiske story by Willy Vandersteen. New character Suske is already shown in the announcement strips, but will only make his official debut halfway the story when Wiske meets him at the Isle of Amoras. At the start of the story Professor Barabas also makes his debut.December 22: Willy Vandersteen's family gag comic De Familie Snoek makes its debut.December 27: Marc Sleen's series Piet Fluwijn introduces a new character, namely Fluwijn's son, Bolleke. From that moment on the series is renamed: Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke.December 27: Marten Toonder's Kappie makes its debut. It will run in the papers until 12 July 1972.

Winter

Suspense Comics #10 - Continental Magazines

Births

March

March 20: Arno van Dijk, Dutch comics artist and illustrator,.

July

July 27: Justin Green, American cartoonist,.

August

Deaths

January

January 3: Georges Colomb, French botanist and comics artist, dies at age 88.January 20: Federico Pedrocchi, Argentinian-Italian animator, comic writer and artist, dies in a bomb attack, at age 37.January 21: Eugène Damblans, aka Eugène Damblanc, Uruguayan-French painter and comics artist, dies at age 79.Specific date unknown: George Hager, American comics artist, dies at age 59 or 60.

February

February 13: Russell Keaton, American comics artist, dies at age 35 of acute melanoma.

March

March 20: Johannes Franciscus Nuijens, Dutch teacher and comics artist, dies at age 78.March 31: Gaietà Cornet, Spanish caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 66.

April

April 25: Jack Wilhelm, American comics artist, dies at age 42.April 30: Erich Schilling, German cartoonist, illustrator and comics artist, commits suicide at age 60.

June

June 27: Harry James Westerman, American comic artist, dies at age 68.

September

September 21: Moses Koenigsberg, American journalist, after whom the comics syndicate King Features was named, dies from a heart attack at age 67.

October

October 23: Louis Moe, Norwegian-Danish illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 88.

November

November 20: Loy Byrnes, American comic artist, dies at age 38 or 39.

December

December 25: Oscar Jacobsson, Swedish comics artist, dies at age 56.December 29: André Hellé, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 74.December 30: Jack McGuire, American comics artist, dies at age 40.

Specific date unknown

  • Marijan Ebner, Croatian comic artist, dies at age 36 or 37.
  • Frank Holland, British comics artist, dies at age 73.
  • Sebastijan Lechner, Yugoslavian comic artist, dies at age 23 or 24.
  • Herbert Rothgaengel, German comics artist and illustrator, dies at an unknown age.

First issues by title

Green Mask Volume 2 - Fox Feature SyndicatePatsy Walker Albi Uragano,, care of the so-called "group of Venice" ''; from the second number, it changes name in Asso di Picche.

Initial appearances by character name