1956 in comics
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Events and publications
Year overall
- Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent and the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings continue to negatively affect the comics marketplace. Ace Comics, Avon Comics, EC Comics, Mainline Publications, Nedor Comics (Standard, Better, and Thrilling), and Quality Comics all cease publishing, though EC continues to publish Mad magazine (and Nedor is succeeded by the short-lived Pines Comics).
January
- January 21: The first issue of the British comics magazine The Beezer comes out. It will be syndicated until 21 August 1993.
February
- February 18: The first issue of the British comics magazine Express Weekly comes out and will run until 1960.
April
- Apache Kid, with issue #19, canceled by Atlas.
May
- World of fantasy, a bi-monthly publication debuts for Atlas Comics (1950s). Among the artists on the book are Werner Roth and Dick Ayers.
October
- Showcase #4 (National Periodical Publications) — First appearance of a revamped Flash ushers in the Silver Age of Comic Books
December
- Quality Comics ceases operations; many of the company's characters and title trademarks sold to National Periodical Publications, which chooses to keep only four series running: Blackhawk, G.I. Combat, Heart Throbs, and Robin Hood Tales.
Deaths
- January 13: Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and comics artist (The Kin-der-Kids, Wee Willie Winkie's World), died, aged 84.[1]
- April: Fernand Dineur, Belgian comics artist (Tif et Tondu), dies at age 51.[2]
- May 20: Max Beerbohm, British essayist, cartoonist and caricaturist, dies at age 83.
- August 12: Doc Winner, American comics artist (Tubby, Elmer), passes away from cancer at age 71.[3]
- August 23: Jos Speybrouck, Belgian graphic artist, illustrator and comics artist (Het Kerkelijk Jaar in Beeld, Levenslijnen), dies at age 65.[4]
- August 24: A.D. Condo, American comics artist (The Outbursts of Everett True, Mr. Skygack, from Mars), passes away at age 84.[5]
- September 6: Alex Raymond, American comics artist (Rip Kirby, Secret Agent X-9, Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim), dies at age 46 in a car crash.[6]
- Specific date unknown: Gus Mager, American comics artist (Hawkshaw the Detective), dies at age 77 or 78.[7]
- Specific date unknown: Austin Bowen Payne, British comics artist (Pip, Squeak and Wilfred), dies at age 79 or 80.[8]
Initial appearances by character name
- Flash in Showcase #4 (October), created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino - DC Comics
- Batwoman in Detective Comics #233 (July), created by Edmond Hamilton and Sheldon Moldoff - DC Comics
- Iris West Allen in Showcase #4 (October), created by Robert Kanigher, Carmine Infantino and Joe Kubert - DC Comics
References
- ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/feininger_l.htm
- ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dineur_f.htm
- ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/winner_doc.htm
- ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/speybrouck_jos.htm
- ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/condo_ad.htm
- ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/raymond.htm
- ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mager_g.htm
- ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/payne_ab.htm
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