1972 in comics

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Notable events of 1972 in comics.

Events

=Year overall=

=January=

  • January 2: Il corriere dei piccoli, splits in two magazines: Il corriere dei piccoli (The little ones’ courier), aimed to children, and Il corriere dei ragazzi (The boys’ courier) aimed to teenagers.
  • January 6: In Pif Gadget, the Corto Maltese story Concert en O mineur pour harpe et nitroglycérine by Hugo Pratt is published. The first of four tales set in the Celtic countries (Ireland, England, Belgium and Brittany).
  • January 7: In the magazine De Nieuwe Gommaar Timmermans creates De Nieuwe Ark, a philosophical comic will run until 8 September 1972.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/got.htm|title=GoT (Gommaar Timmermans)|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=November 21, 2021}}
  • January 19: In Spirou, the first chapter of Tora Torapa by Jean-Claude Fournier is published.
  • Korak, Son of Tarzan (1964 series), with issue #45, cancelled by Gold Key Comics. (The title is acquired and continued by DC in June.)
  • Primaggio Mantovi's Sacarrolha debuts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mantovi_primaggio.htm|title=Primaggio Mantovi|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • The stories Hound of the Moaning Hills' and Storm dancers by Carl Barks and Kay Wright are published in Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks.
  • Iorix le grand by Jacques Martin.

=February=

=March=

=April=

=May=

  • May 1: The first issue of the adult comic magazine L'Écho des Savanes is published. Up until 1974 it only features comics by the three founders Marcel Gotlib, Nikita Mandryka and Claire Bretécher.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mandryka.htm|title=Nikita Mandryka|website=lambiek.net|access-date=3 July 2021}}
  • May 4: In Pilote the first chapter of Asterix and the Soothsayer by Goscinny and Uderzo, is published.
  • May 21: The final episode of Jerry and Hally Skelly's newspaper comic strip Captain Kate is published.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/skelly_jerry.htm|title=Jerry Skelly|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • May 23: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Rerun van Pelt makes his debut.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/schulz.htm|title=Charles M. Schulz|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=February 2, 2021}}
  • Wonder Woman #200 (May/June cover date): 52-page giant, "The Beauty Hater," by Denny O'Neil and Dick Giordano. (DC Comics)
  • Tomahawk, with issue #140 (May/June cover date), canceled by DC.
  • The Donald Duck stories Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks, Duckmade disaster are published by Carl Barks and Kay Wright.
  • The Italian magazine Lo scolaro, after sixty years of history and more than a thousand issues, ceases publications.

=June=

=July=

  • July 12: The final episode of Marten Toonder's Kappie is published.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/toonder.htm|title=Marten Toonder|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • July 22: The first edition of Wizard World Chicago, aka the Chicago Comic-Con, is organized by Nancy Warner.Zahour, Frank. "Superman, Howdy, 'Alive' to Nostalgia Buffs", Chicago Tribune (Aug. 6, 1973), p. 16.
  • After a year-long experimentation with 25-cent, 52-page comics, DC Comics reduces the price of a typical comic to 20 cents, and returns the page count to 36 pages.
  • Art Spiegelman publishes "Maus", a three-page strip which will eventually turn into Maus, for the one-shot underground magazine Funny Animals [cq], an underground comic published by Apex Novelties.
  • Detective Comics #425: Jason Bard replaces Batgirl as the backup feature.{{cite journal|last = Wells|first = John|title = The Master Crime-File of Jason Bard|journal= Back Issue!|issue = 64|pages = 39–43|publisher = TwoMorrows Publishing|date = May 2013}}
  • Sgt. Fury #100: "One Hundredth Anniversary," by Gary Friedrich, Dick Ayers, and Mike Esposito. (Marvel Comics)
  • Pippo e I parastinchi di Olimpia (Goofy and the Olympia shin guards), by Romano Scarpa, in Olympic Goofy, a story written for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
  • Il grande intrigo (The big plot) by Gian Luigi Bonelli and Erio Nicolò; Tex Willer is sentenced to death with a false charge. The story, exceptionally long (five albums), is considered a masterwork among the classic adventures of the hero.

=August=

  • August 6: In Il giornalino, Notturno a Macao, by Claudio Nizzi and Ruggero Giovannini; debut of the sea adventures series Capitan Erik.{{Cite web |date=April 3, 2017 |title=Notturno a Macao (puntate 1-3) |url=https://corrierino-giornalino.blogspot.com/2017/04/notturno-macao-puntate-1-3.html |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=Corrierino e Giornalino}}
  • August 31: In Pif Gadget, the Corto Maltese story Au nom d'Allah le très miséricordieux, le compatissant by Hugo Pratt, is published, the first chapter of The Ethiopian, an arc of four stories set in Africa, where the captain has, as a partner, the Afar warrior Dash.
  • The Flash #217: Four months after the cancellation of his own title, Green Lantern begins appearing as a backup feature in The Flash #217 (Aug.-Sept. 1972).{{cite journal|last = Greenberger|first = Robert|author-link = Robert Greenberger|title = Green Lantern The Emerald Backups|journal= Back Issue!|issue = 64|pages = 3–9|publisher = TwoMorrows Publishing|date = May 2013}}
  • Justice League of America #100: "The Unknown Soldier of Victory!", by Len Wein, Dick Dillin, and Joe Giella.
  • Forever People, with issue #11, is cancelled by DC.
  • In the story The kingdom under the sea, by Rodolfo Cimino and Giorgio Cavazzano, Queen Reginella makes her debut.

=September=

  • September 13: The first episode of Gommaar Timmermans' comic Iamboree is published in Knack. It will run until 1982.
  • September 14: RAI broadcasts the first episode of Gulp, spectacle of "TV comics" very popular among the Italian young viewers. For the show, original comics are realized, as The flying fat women, by Vittorio Metz, La secchia rapita, by Pino Zac and moreover Nick Carter, by Bonvi and De Maria.  
  • September 19: In Le journal de Tintin, the first chapter of the Michel Vaillant story Cauchemar (Nightmare) is published by Jean Graton.
  • House of Secrets #100, edited by Joe Orlando. (DC Comics)
  • Stan Lee becomes Marvel Comics' publisher; Roy Thomas takes over as Marvel editor-in-chief.
  • In The People's Comics, Robert Crumb draws the story Fritz the Cat Superstar, in which his most famous character Fritz the Cat is murdered, thus terminating the comic strip. Crumb drew the story in reaction to Ralph Bakshi's animated feature film adaptation which premiered a few months earlier.{{cite web|url=https://comixjoint.com/peoplescomics-1st.html|title=The People's Comics 1st Printing at Comixjoint.com|website=comixjoint.com|access-date=21 July 2018}}

= October =

  • October 28: The final episode of Mort Walker and Frank Roberge's Mrs. Fitz's Flats is published.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/walker.htm|title=Mort Walker|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/roberge_frank.htm|title=Frank Roberge|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • Date with Debbi, with issue #18 (October /November cover date), is cancelled by DC.
  • Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth #1: new series by writer/artist Jack Kirby is launched by DC Comics with an October/November cover date.
  • New Gods, with issue #11 (October /November cover date), is temporarily cancelled by DC (it is revived with issue #12 in 1977).
  • Silver Age inker Sid Greene dies at age 66.

=November=

  • November 9: The first episode of Willy Vandersteen's comics series Robert en Bertrand is published and will run until 1992.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/vandersteen.htm|title=Willy Vandersteen|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • Girls' Love Stories, with issue #180 (November /December cover-date), cancelled by DC Comics.

=December=

  • December 5 : In Le journal de Tintin, the first chapter of Épitaphe pour Ric Hochet (Epitaph for Ric Hochet) by André-Paul Duchâteau and Tibet is published.
  • December 7: In Le journal de Tintin, the first chapter of the Bruno Brazil story Sarabanda a Sacramento is published by Greg and William Vance.
  • December 28: The final episode of Marcel Gotlib's Rubrique-à-Brac is printed in Pilote.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gotlib.htm|title=Marcel Gotlib|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=21 July 2018|archive-date=6 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206102844/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gotlib.htm|url-status=live}}
  • Justice League of America #103, Writer Len Wein and artists Dick Dillin and Dick Giordano craft the DC portion of a metafictional unofficial crossover spanning titles from both major comics companies. The Marvel chapters appear with 1973 cover dates. Each comic featured writers Steve Englehart, Gerry Conway, and Len Wein, as well as Wein's first wife Glynis, interacting with Marvel or DC characters at the Rutland Halloween Parade in Rutland, Vermont. Beginning in Amazing Adventures #16 (by Englehart with art by Bob Brown and Frank McLaughlin), the story continued in Justice League of America #103 (by Wein, Dillin and Giordano), and concluded in Thor #207 (by Conway and penciler John Buscema).{{cite web|url=http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/10/30/rutland-halloween-parade-marvel-dc-crossover/ |title=The Rutland Halloween Parade: Where Marvel and DC First Collided |last=Larnick |first=Eric |date=October 30, 2010 |publisher=ComicsAlliance.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111094055/http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/10/30/rutland-halloween-parade-marvel-dc-crossover/ |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=December 5, 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/10/01/comic-book-legends-revealed-280/ |title=Comic Book Legends Revealed #280 |last=Cronin |first=Brian |date=October 1, 2010 |publisher=ComicBookResources.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116162032/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/10/01/comic-book-legends-revealed-280/ |archive-date=January 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=December 5, 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/25821/|title=GCD :: Issue :: Amazing Adventures #16|website=www.comics.org|access-date=21 July 2018}}

=Specific date unknown=

  • Carlos Enrique Figueroa creates the comics character Tricolín.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/figueroa_carlos.htm|title=Carlos Enrique Figueroa|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • The first episode of the Polish humorous historical comic series Kajko i Kokosz by Janusz Christa is published. {{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/christa-janusz.htm|title=Janusz Christa|website=lambiek.net|access-date=January 29, 2023}}
  • David Sutherland introduces the character Cuthbert in The Bash Street Kids. {{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sutherland_david.htm|title=David Sutherland|website=lambiek.net|access-date=15 February 2023}}
  • James McQuade's erotic series Misty makes its debut. {{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mcquade_james.htm|title=James McQuade|website=lambiek.net|access-date=11 August 2024}}

Births

=April=

  • April 26: John Paul Leon, American comic book artist (Static, Earth X, The Winter Men), (d. 2021).{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/leon_john-paul.htm|title=John Paul Leon|website=Lambiek.net|access-date=May 4, 2021}}

=November=

  • November 22: Cyril Pedrosa, French comic book artist, colorist and writer.

Deaths

=January=

  • January 5: Bud Counihan, American comics artist (Betty Boop comics, Henry Hasenpfeffer, The Big Little Family, Little Napoleon), dies at age 84.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/counihan_bud.htm|title=Bud Counihan|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • January 28: Dino Buzzati, Italian novelist, author also, as writer and illustrator (Poem strip), dies at age 65.

=February=

  • February 2: István Pesthy, AKA Falus, Hungarian dentist, cartoonist and comic artist, dies at age 65.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pesthy_istvan.htm|title=István Pesthy|website=lambiek.net|access-date=8 December 2021}}

=March=

  • March 4: Charles Biro, American comics artist (Airboy, Steel Sterling, Daredevil Comics), dies at age 60.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/biro_c.htm|title=Charles Biro|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • March 5: Frans Meijer, also published under the name Jaap van Loon, Ko Koster, F.M., Piet Pion and Henk, Dutch comics artist (created various one-shot comics and continued Fred en Minet), dies at age 71.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/meijer_frans.htm|title=Frans Meijer|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • March 17: Antonio Rubio, Cuban cartoonist and comics artist (El Monguito, El Marcianito, Angelitos, Angeles de la Guardia), dies at age 51.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/rubio_antonio.htm|title=Antonio Rubio|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • March 31: Aleksandar Denkov, Bulgarian illustrator, animator and comics artist (Hrabriat Eskimos, Zagovor v Dvoreca, Ban Ianuka), dies at age 47.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/denkov_aleksandar.htm|title=Aleksandar Denkov|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}

=May=

  • May 5: Frank Tashlin, aka Tish Tash, aka Frank Tash, American animator, cartoonist, illustrator, screenwriter, film director and comics artist (Van Boring), dies at age 59.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tashlin_frank.htm|title=Frank Tashlin|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • May 23: Louis Salvérius, Belgian comics artist (Les Tuniques Bleues), unexpectedly dies from a heart attack at the age of 38.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/salverius_louis.htm|title=Louis Salvérius|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • May 23: Nino Pagot, Italian comics artist and animator (Calimero), dies at the age of 64.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pagot_nino.htm|title=Nino Pagot}}
  • May 26: Robert Dansler, aka Bob Dan, Bobby, Erdé or Hoberdon (Jim Mystère, Bill Tornade, Jack Sport, Tarou, Maxime), French comics artist, dies at age 71.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dan-bob.htm|title=Robert Dansler|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • May 28: Rea Irvin, American illustrator, graphic artist and comics artist (The Smythes, designed the mascot of The New Yorker: Eustace Tilley), dies at age 90 from a stroke.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/i/irvin_r.htm|title=Rea Irvin|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}

=June=

  • June 17: Frank Ellis, American comics artist (Jane Arden), dies at age 74.{{cite web|url=https://www.pulpartists.com/Ellis.html|title=Catalog|website=www.pulpartists.com|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • June 20: Johanna Berhardina Midderigh-Bokhorst, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (made text comics for the magazine Zonneschijn), dies at age 92.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/midderigh-bokhorst-jb.htm|title=Johanna Bernardina Midderigh-Bokhorst|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • June 22: Johan Jacob Voskuil, aka Jo Voskuil, Dutch illustrator, painter and comics artist (Klit, de Schoonzoon), dies at age 75.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/voskuil_jj.htm|title=Jo Voskuil|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

=July=

  • July 8: John Henry Gordon Freeman, aka Don Freeman, British comics writer (Buck Ryan, Jane, Garth, Belinda Blue Eyes) and novelist, dies at age 69.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/monk_jack.htm|title=Jack Monk|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • July 28: Fanny Cory, American illustrator and comics artist (Sonnysayings, Little Miss Muffet), dies at age 94.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cory_fanny_y.htm|title=Fanny Y. Cory|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

=August=

  • August 9: Noël Bissot, Belgian comics artist (Le Baron, Youk et Yak, Le Picrate, Croquemitron, Juju), dies at age 55.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bissot_n.htm|title=Noël Bissot|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • Specific date unknown: Lovrien Gregory, American comics artist (The Pioneers), dies at age 84.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gregory_lovrien.htm|title=Lovrien Gregory|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

=September=

  • September 12:
  • Harry S. Anderson, American comics artist (Robin Hood & Company, T-Man), dies at age 61. {{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/anderson_harry.htm|title=Harry S. Anderson|website=lambiek.net|access-date=19 April 2024}}
  • Max Fleischer, American animator and comics artist (Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor), dies at age 89.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fleischer_max.htm|title=Max Fleischer|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • Ivar Mauritz-Hansen, Norwegian illustrator and comics artist (Nils og Blåmann, Onkell Brombass, Detektiv Luresen, Råd for Uråd, Jumbo, Professor Tanke), dies at age 75.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mauritz-hansen_ivar.htm|title=Ivar Mauritz-Hansen}}
  • September 20: William Ritt, American comics writer and journalist (Brick Bradford), dies at the age of 69 or 70.{{cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ritt_william|title=Media : Ritt, William : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • Specific date unknown: September: Regino Bernad, Spanish-French comics artist (comics based on the novels of Gaston Leroux), dies at age 70.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bernad_regino.htm|title=Regino Bernad|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}

=October=

  • October 31: John L. Jukes, British comics artist (Ben and Bert the Kid Cops, Popgun Pete, continued Alfie the Air Tramp and George the Jolly Gee-Gee), dies at age 71.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jukes_john.htm|title=John L. Jukes|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • Specific date unknown: Sid Greene, American comic artist (worked for Funnies Inc., Ace Periodicals, Hillman, DC Comics), dies at age 64. {{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/greene_sid.htm|title=Sid Greene|website=lambiek.net|access-date=August 1, 2022}}

=December=

  • December 11: Don Gunn, American comics artist (Disney comics, Looney Tunes comics), dies at age 66.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gunn_don.htm|title=Don Gunn|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}

=Specific date unknown=

  • Gaspar Bolaños, Mexican comics artist (Rolando el Rabioso), dies at age 63 or 64.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bolanos_gaspar.htm|title=Gaspar Bolaños|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • Paul Braig, French painter and comics artist (La Vie Imaginée de Pablo Picasso), dies at age 65 or 66.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/braig_paul.htm|title=Paul Braig|website=lambiek.net|access-date=December 16, 2020}}
  • C.H. Chapman, British comics artist (Billy Bunter) dies at the age of 92 or 93.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/chapman_ch.htm|title=C.H. Chapman|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • Allen Dean, American comics artist, painter and illustrator (King of the Royal Mounted), dies at age 82 or 83.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dean_allen.htm|title=Allen Dean|website=lambiek.net|access-date=21 July 2018}}
  • Francis Kirn, American comics artist (Uncle Wiggily), dies at age 67 or 68.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kirn_francis.htm|title = Francis Kirn}}
  • Hans Nije, Dutch musician and comics artist (Tim Tuimel, Lodewijk, Boudewijn), dies at age 54.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/nije_h.htm|title=Hans Nije|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • Bert Vandeput, British comics artist (Roy of the Rovers, Mystery Ice-Ace of the Arrows, Dozy Danny - Football Star in the Making, Come Away the United, Wilson - the Wonder Athlete), dies at age 56 or 57.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/vandeput_bert.htm|title=Bert Vandeput|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

Conventions

Awards

= Goethe Awards =

Published in The Buyer's Guide to Comics Fandom (TBG) #38 (June 15, 1973) (for comics published in 1972). Ballots were printed in TBG, Comic Crusader, The Comic Reader, the Gazette Advertiser, The Menomonee Falls Gazette, and Rocket's Blast Comicollector. 1,011 fans cast their votes. Winners in each category are listed in boldface, along with other fan-selected nominees in order of finish.Miller, John Jackson. [http://www.cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/goethecomic-fan-art-award-winners-1971-74 "GOETHE/COMIC FAN ART AWARD WINNERS, 1971-74,"] Comics Buyer's Guide (July 19, 2005). {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920035152/http://www.cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/goethecomic-fan-art-award-winners-1971-74 |date=September 20, 2010 }}

= Shazam Awards =

Presented in 1973 for comics published in 1972:

First issue by title

= DC Comics =

The Demon

: Release: August /September Writer/Artist: Jack Kirby. Inker: Mike Royer.{{cite book|last=McAvennie|first= Michael|editor-last=Dolan|editor-first=Hannah|chapter= 1970s|title = DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=Dorling Kindersley |year=2010 |isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9 |page= 152 |quote = While his "Fourth World" opus was winding down, Jack Kirby was busy conjuring his next creation, which emerged not from the furthest reaches of the galaxy but from the deepest pits of Hell. Etrigan was hardly the usual Kirby protagonist.}}

Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth

: Release: October /November Writer/Artist: Jack Kirby. Inker: Mike Royer.

Supergirl

: Release: November. Editor: Dorothy Woolfolk.

Swamp Thing

: Release: October /November Writer: Len Wein. Artist: Bernie Wrightson.

Weird Mystery Tales

: Release: July/August Editor: E. Nelson Bridwell.

Weird Worlds

: Release: September. Editor: Dennis O'Neil.

= Marvel Comics =

The Cat

: Release: November. Writers: Roy Thomas and Linda Fite. Artists: Marie Severin and Wally Wood.

Chamber of Chills

: Release: November Writer: Steve Englehart. Editor: Roy Thomas.

The Defenders

: Release: August. Writer: Steve Englehart. Artists: Sal Buscema and Frank Giacoia.

Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze

: Release: October. Writers: Roy Thomas (plot) and Steve Englehart (script). Artists: Ross Andru and Jim Mooney.

Hero for Hire

: Release: June. Writers: Roy Thomas, John Romita, and Archie Goodwin. Artists: George Tuska and Billy Graham.

Journey into Mystery (vol. 2)

: Release: October. Editor: Roy Thomas.

Jungle Action

: Release: October. Editor: Roy Thomas.

Marvel Premiere

: Release: April. Writer: Roy Thomas. Artists: Gil Kane and Dan Adkins.

Marvel Team-Up

: Release: March. Writer: Roy Thomas. Artists: Ross Andru and Mike Esposito.

Marvel Triple Action

: Release: February. Reprints early issues of The Avengers and Fantastic Four.

The Mighty World of Marvel

: Release: October 7 (weekly) by Marvel UK.

Night Nurse

: Release: November. Writer: Jean Thomas. Artist: Winslow Mortimer.

Shanna the She-Devil

: Release: September. Writers: Carole Seuling and Steve Gerber. Artists: George Tuska and Vince Colletta.

Supernatural Thrillers

: Release: December. Writers: Theodore Sturgeon (original story) and Roy Thomas (adaptation). Artists: Marie Severin and Frank Giacoia.

The Tomb of Dracula

: Release: April. Writer: Gerry Conway. Artist: Gene Colan.

Werewolf by Night

: Release: September. Writer: Gerry Conway. Artists: Mike Ploog and Frank Chiaramonte.

= Other publishers =

Archie at Riverdale High

: Release: August by Archie Comics.

Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary

: Release: March by Last Gasp. Writer/Artist: Justin Green.

Captain Paragon

: Release: by Paragon Publications. Writer/Artist: Bill Black.

Death Rattle

: Release: June by Kitchen Sink Press.

Midnight Tales

: Release: December by Charlton. Artist: Wayne Howard.

The People's Comics

: Release: September by Golden Gate Publishing Company. Artist/Writer: Robert Crumb.

Mystery Comics Digest

: Release: March by Gold Key Comics.

The Rip Off Review of Western Culture

: Release: June by Rip Off Press. Editor: J. David Moriaty.

The Rose of Versailles (Berusaiyu no Bara)

: Release: May 21 by Margaret magazine (Shueisha). Writer/artist: Riyoko Ikeda.

Tits & Clits Comix

: Release: July by Nanny Goat Productions. Writers/Artists/Editors: Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli

Wimmen's Comix

: Release: November by Last Gasp.

Initial appearance by character name

= DC Comics =

=Marvel Comics=

= Independent publishers =

References

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