1952 in comics


Notable events of 1952 in comics.

Events and publications

January

January 1: The first issue of Cucciolo is published. In the 1950s and the 1960s, it will be the most popular Italian magazine for children after Topolino.January 3: Hussein Amin Bikar establishes the Egyptian children's comics magazine Sindibad.January 5: Belgian curator Frans Verstreken organizes the first annual Flemish cartoon exhibition Salon van de Vlaamse Humor, exhibiting cartoons by dozens of Flemish cartoonists and comic artists. January 6: Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts receives its first Sunday comics page.January 10: André Franquin's Starter makes its debut.January 23: The first episode of the Mickey Mouse story The Midas ring is published, by Floyd Gottfredson and Bill Walsh.January 31: In Spirou et les Héritiers by André Franquin the Marsupilami makes his debut.

February

February 2: Crockett Johnson's Barnaby comes to an end.February 23:

March

March: In Carl Barks' Donald Duck story Statuesque Spendthrifts Duckburg's founder Cornelius Coot makes his debut.

April

April 8: The Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber story De Stalen Zeemeermin starts running in Het Handelsblad. Halfway the story, the new main cast member Susan makes her debut.April 21: The first episode of the Mickey Mouse story The Isle of Moola-la by Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson is published.April 25: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Charlie Brown tries to fly a kite, but fails. This will become a running gag in the series.

May

May 1: In Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge story Gladstone's Terrible Secret inventor Gyro Gearloose makes his debut.May 7: Yaakov Ashman and Elisheva Nadal-Landau publish the first episode of their comic series Lulu. May 27: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Snoopy starts expressing himself in thought balloons, the first phase of his gradual anthropomorphism.

June

July

July 14: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Linus van Pelt makes his debut, though he only appears on screen on 19 September.

August

August 8: Roberto Renzi and Giorgio Rebuffi's Tiramolla makes its debut.

September

September 11: Peyo's medieval comic strip series Johan, initially published in other magazines since 1947, makes its debut in a redesigned version in Spirou. The initially blond-haired Johan becomes dark-haired.September 19: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Linus van Pelt is first seen by readers, after being mentioned two months earlier.

October

October/November: The first issue of Mad is published by Harvey Kurtzman and William M. Gaines.October 3: The first episode of the Mickey Mouse story Mickey Mouse and Hoosat from another planet is published, by Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson.October 5: The final episode of Will Eisner's The Spirit appears in papers.October 19: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Snoopy starts dancing on his hind legs. This will become a running gag in the series.October 25: The first issue of the Dutch Disney comics weekly Donald Duck is published.

November

November 7: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Lucy van Pelt first calls herself a "fussbudget" and changes from a nice girl into a mean one. This will become a running gag in the series.November 16:

December

December: The second issue of Mad Magazine is released. Inside, Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder's humor comic Mole! is first printed. December 4: In Spirou, the first chapter of the Spirou and Fantasio story La Turbotraction by André Franquin is published.December 11: In Spirou, the first chapter of the Lucky Luke story L'élixir du Dr. Doxey by Morris is published.December 24: Willy Vandersteen's western series Bessy makes its debut in La Libre Belgique.December 31: Giorgio Rebuffi's Trottolino makes its debut. It will run until August 1990. It is the first of the several magazines published by the Italian editor Renato Bianconi, aimed at the youngest readers.

Specific date unknown

  • Marion Hull Hammel takes over the comics series Goofus and Gallant and changes the protagonists from elves into real children.
  • Arthur Horner launches Colonel Pewter.
  • Taizo Yokoyama creates Pu-San.

Births

April

April 6: Walli, Belgian children's book illustrator and comic artist,.

May

May 30: Mike W. Barr, American comic book writer.May 31: David Anthony Kraft, American comics writer, critic and publisher,.

September

September 10: Gerry Conway, American comic book writer.

November

November 26: Dan Green, American comic artist,.November 30: Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist,.

Deaths

January

January 22: Akos Garay, Hungarian caricaturist, painter, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 85.

March

March 16: Wilhelm Schulz, German painter, caricaturist, illustrator and comic artist, dies at age 86. March 25: Egon von Tresckow, aka Tres, German animator, illustrator, comics artist and caricaturist, dies at age 45.March 27: Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 48.

May

May 9: Chick Gordon, British comics artist, dies at age 67 or 68.

July

July 1: Jimmy Bancks, Australian comics artist, dies at age 63 from a heart attack.July 9: Kemp Starrett, American comics artist, dies at age 62.

August

August 25: Ola Fogelberg, Finnish comics artist, dies at age 58.

September

September 13: George Brenner, American comics artist, dies at age 38.September 22: H. T. Webster, American comics artist, dies at age 67.

October

October 11: Jean Dupuis, Belgian comics publisher, dies at age 76.

November

November 26: Edward Ambrose Dyson, Australian cartoonist, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 43.

December

Specific date in December unknown: Harold A. McGill, Canadian comics artist, dies at age 75 or 76.

Specific date unknown

Initial appearances by character name

DC Comics

Other publishers

Gyro Gearloose, in "Gladstone's Terrible Secret," Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #140 Robot Archie, in Lion #1 Thun'da, in Thun'da #1 Badlo by Luciano Bottaro Uncle Scrooge, in Four Color Comics #386

Newspaper strips

Linus van Pelt, in Peanuts Lucy van Pelt, in ''Peanuts''