The first issue of the Dutch comics magazineKetelbinkie Krant is published, which is namedKapitein Rob's Vrienden outside Rotterdam. It will run until February 1957.[3]
April 29:Jacques Laudy'sHassan et Kaddour debuts inTintin, where it will run until 1962.[5]
April 30: The first episode theMickey Mouse storyThe Atombrella and the Rhyming Man, by Bill Walsh andFloyd Gottfredson is published, which marks the debut of the Rhyming Man.
June 9: U.S. bandleaderFred Waring starts an annual event where professional cartoonists are invited to come to his golf resort in Shwanee Inn. This will result in a huge collection of cartoons and comics: the Fred Waring collection.[6]
September 16:Willy Vandersteen'sSuske en Wiske makes its debut inTintin , but in a graphic style which is more advanced than the version which runs in Flemish newspapers.[10]
October 4:Walt Kelly'sPogo, a comic book feature since 1942, makes its debut as a newspaper strip.
October 25: The Dutch Ministry of Culture puts an official government declaration in the newspapers to ask teachers to stop distributing dangerous and mind-corrupting comics.[13]
Specific date unknown:Feliu Elias, aka Apa, Spanish caricaturist, painter, art critic and comics artist (Las Hazañas del Pitafras), dies at age 59.[30]
Jack Farr, American comics artist (Little Willie,Mr. Jolt,Chubby,If They Came Back And Did It Over Again Today,Bringing Up Bill,Bradley,Vitamin Vic,Donny the Dreamer,Gadget Man,Iron Munro,Romeo the Robot,Three-Ring Binks), dies at age 48 or 49.[36]
Christian Haugen, Norwegian novelist and comics writer, whose stories were adapted into comics by Arent Christensen,[37] dies at age 53 or 54.
Joan García Junceda, Spanish illustrator and comics artist (Les Extraordinàries Aventures d'en Massagran), dies at age 66 or 67.[38]
