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Notable events of1934 in comics.

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• January 7:Alex Raymond'sFlash Gordon andJungle Jim make their debut.Flash Gordon will run until 2003, whileJungle Jim lasts until 1954.^[1][2]
• January 16: The first episode of the gag comicVan Boring, by future animation legendFrank Tashlin, is published. It will run until 1936.^[3]
• January 22:Alex Raymond'sSecret Agent X-9 makes its debut and will run until 1996. The original stories are written by famous detective writerDashiel Hammett.^[2]

• February - August:Hergé'sPopol Out West is serialized inLe Petit Vingtième.^[4]

• March 4: The final episode ofBucky Bug as part of theSilly Symphony feature is published.^[5]
• March 5:Frank Victor Martinek'sDon Winslow of the Navy makes its debut. It will run until 30 July 1955.
• March 19:Will Gould'sRed Barry makes its debut.^[6]

• April:David Low'sColonel Blimp makes his debut.^[7]

• Zeke Wolf andthe three little pigs debut in comics, in a Tom Wood's table for the magazineGood Housekkeping.

• June 11:Lee Falk andFred Fredericks'sMandrake the Magician makes its debut.
• June 30: The first episode of theMickey Mouse storyBobo the Elephant appears in print, byFloyd Gottfredson andTed Osborne. This marks the debut of the villainEli Squinch.

• July 23: The first episode of Bud Counihan'sBetty Boop newspaper comic is published. It will run until 1937.^[8]
• Famous Funnies #1 (Eastern Color Printing) - The first full-color comicbook sold to the public. It set the standard of 68 pages, including covers, and sold for 10 cents. Early issues of this series, starting with #1, advertised the contents as "100 Comics and Games - Puzzles - Magic."

• August 9: inLe petit Vingtième, first episode ofThe blue lotus, byHergè.
• August 13:Al Capp'sLi'l Abner makes its debut.^[9]

• September 16:Ted Osborne andAl Taliaferro'sSilly Symphony comic strip adapts the cartoonThe Wise Little Hen, which marks the official debut ofDonald Duck (who debuted in that animated short) as a comics character.^[5]
• September 23:Rube Goldberg'sBoob McNutt comes to a close.
• Famous Funnies #2 (Eastern Color Printing) - With this issue,Famous Funnies would become the first monthly newsstand comic publication.

• October 1:Fred Neher'sLife's Like That makes its debut.
• October 7:Fred Harman'sBronc Peeler makes its debut.^[10]
• October 14: The first issue of the Italian comics magazineL'Avventuroso is published. It will run until 16 May 1943.
• October 21: First publication of the FrenchDisney comics magazineLe Journal de Mickey.^[11] A test issue was already published on June 1, 1934.^[12]
• October 22:Milton Caniff'sTerry and the Pirates makes its debut.^[13]
• Famous Funnies #3 (Eastern Color Printing)

• November 17: InBilly DeBeck'sBarney Google Snuffy Smith makes its debut, leading to an eventual title change asBarney Google and Snuffy Smith.^[14]
• Famous Funnies #4 (Eastern Color Printing)
• Adolphe Barreaux'Sally the Sleuth debuts inSpicy Detective.^[15][16]

• December 13:E.O. Plauen'sVater und Sohn (Father and Son) makes its debut.^[17]
• December 16: The U.S. magazineThe American Weekly prints the first episode ofLes Mystères Surrealistes de New York, a comic strip drawn by famous painterSalvador Dalí. It will run until 7 July 1935^[18]
• Famous Funnies #5 (Eastern Color Printing)

• Walter Goetz launches his newspaper comicsColonel Up and Mr. Down andDab and Flounder.^[19]
• Shaka Bontaro draws an illegal Japanese-languageMickey Mouse story:Mikkii no Katsuyaku.^[20]

• January 11:Antonio Seguí, Argentine cartoonist, (d.2022).^[21]

• February 18: Cor Blok, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (The Iron Parachute), (d.2021).^[22]

• March 10:Fujiko A. Fujio, Japanese manga artist (Ninja Hattori-kun,The Monster Kid,The Laughing Salesman), (d.2022).^[23]

• June 28:Georges Wolinski, French cartoonist and comics writer (Charlie Hebdo), (d.2015)^[24]

• December 28:Herb Gardner, American playwright, screenwriter and comics artist (The Nebbishes), (d.2003) from lung disease.

• February 15:Louis Forton, French comics writer and artist (Les Pieds Nickelés,Bibi Fricotin,Ploum), dies at age 54.^[25]
• February 27: John Terry, American comics artist and animator (Scorchy Smith, continuedHave You Seen Alonzo?), dies at age 53 or 54.^[26]

• June 3: Chic Jackson, American comics artist (Roger Bean), dies at age 57 from a heart attack.^[27]
• June 4: August Roeseler, German illustrator (made picture stories forFliegende Blätter andSimplicissimus), dies at age 68.^[28]

• July 26:Winsor McCay, American comics artist and animator (Little Nemo in Slumberland,Dream of the Rarebit Fiend,Little Sammy Sneeze,Gertie the Dinosaur) dies at age 64 from a cerebral embolism.^[29]

• November 23:Albert Funke Küpper, Dutch comics artist (Krelissie en Direkkie, continuedSnuffelgraag en Knagelijntje), dies at age 40 in a car accident.^[30]

• December 10: Dan Smith, American illustrator and comics artist (The Jungle Folk, comics based on the Bible), dies at age 69.^[31]

• Pierre Dmitrow, Russian-French illustrator (drew picture stories for children's magazines), dies at age 50 or 51.^[32]
• Lee Do-Yeong, Korean comics artist and illustrator, dies at age 49 or 50.^[33]
• August Roeseler, German cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist (worked forFliegende Blätter andSimplicissimus), dies at age 77 or 78.^[34]

• Famous Funnies on newsstands in May, cover dated July, published byEastern Color Printing Company.

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