June 10: In the Italian Disney magazineTopolino, in the storyTopolino e la Grande Impresa di Lascia o t’Accoppo, byGuido Martina andGiovan Battista CarpiMickey Mouse andUncle Scrooge appear in the same story, which is an unusual situation, since characters from these two universes rarely overlap in Disney comic stories.
September: In the 29th issue ofMad Magazine, a gap-toothed character who'd previously appeared as a tiny face on the cover of issue 21 in March, is given the nameAlfred E. Neuman.[6]
September 1: InHet Parool,Piet Wijn'sFrank, De Vliegende Hollander is cancelled after a year, to make place for the comeback of Pieter J. Kuhn'sKapitein Rob.[7][8]
September 21: TheNero storyDe IJzeren Kolonel byMarc Sleen is first published in the newspapers. Halfway the story the major antagonist of the series,Ricardo, makes his debut.
Cancellation of the American comics magazinePanic.
The final issue of the Belgian comics magazineHeroïc Albums is published.[14]
In theUncle Scrooge storyBack To Long Ago!, byCarl Barks, 16th-century ancestors ofScrooge McDuck andDonald Duck are introduced. In the following years, this narrative device will be widely imitated by other Disney authors.
In the French magazineValiant, the little Indian Cha’pa and his friend, the imaginary animal Group-Group, by Jean Ollivier and Ramon Monzon, and the couple of amateur detectives Richard and Charlie, byJean Tabary, make their debut.[20]
December 9: Uriel Birnbaum, Austrian illustrator, painter, poet, poster artist and comics artist, dies at age 62.[38]
December 31:Norm Rice, Australian comics artist (Powerman,Steele Carewe,Nick Carver of the Circus, continuedBluey and Curley), dies in a car accident.[39]
