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1975 in comics

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Notable events of 1975 in comics.

Events and publications

= Year overall =

= January =

= February =

  • February 4: Cosey launches his comic series Jonathan in Tintin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cosey.htm|title=Cosey|website=lambiek.net|access-date=February 15, 2024}}
  • The final issue of the Lucky Luke monthly magazine is published.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/morris.htm|title=Morris|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

= Spring =

= March =

  • Adventure Comics #438: A "Seven Soldiers of Victory" script by Joseph Samachson written in the 1940s was serialized as a backup feature in Adventure Comics beginning with issue #438 and running through #443, with each chapter illustrated by a different artist including Dick Dillin, Howard Chaykin, Lee Elias, Mike Grell, Ernie Chan, and José Luis García-López.{{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Year By Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=Dorling Kindersley |year=2010 |isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9 |page= 162|quote = An unpublished Seven Soldiers of Victory story finally saw print as a backup feature in Adventure Comics #438 – three decades after it was written. Noted scientist and author Joseph Samachson had penned his last Soldiers story in 1945, when the super hero team were a regular feature in Leading Comics.}}{{cite web |first=Brian|last=Cronin|url= http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/02/18/comic-book-legends-revealed-248/|title= Comic Book Legends Revealed #248|publisher= Comic Book Resources|date=February 18, 2010|access-date= January 6, 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101001114743/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/02/18/comic-book-legends-revealed-248/|archive-date=October 1, 2010 |quote= An unpublished script starring the Seven Soldiers of Victory was published within five issues of Adventure Comics…Thirty years after the Seven Soldiers of Victory feature was canceled!}}{{cite journal|last = Abramowitz|first = Jack|title = Seven Soldiers of Victory: Lost in Time Again|journal= Back Issue!|issue = 64|pages = 33–37|publisher = TwoMorrows Publishing|date = May 2013}}
  • The vagabond of Limbo, by Christian Godard and Julio Ribera (Dargaud).
  • in Italy, Potenza nera, by Giulio Bertoletti (Universo), first episode of a projected trilogy (Crist-031), rewriting the Book of Genesis in a Sci-fi key. The two following episodes never have been published.{{Cite web |last=Bono |first=Gianni |date=April 25, 2015 |title=CRIST-031 Il primo fumetto fantareligioso |url=https://www.guidafumettoitaliano.com/guida/testate/testata/2107 |website=Guida Fumetto Italiano}}
  • Editoriale Corno launches two new magazines of Marvel comics: Conan e Kazar (15 March), with the comics not strictly of superheroes, and Hulk e I difensori (20 march.)

= April =

  • April 1: The first issue of the French satirical comics magazine Fluide Glacial is published.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gotlib.htm|title=Marcel Gotlib|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • April 1: The first episode of Moebius' Arzach is prepublished in Métal Hurlant.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/giraud.htm|title=Jean Giraud|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://bdoubliees.com/metalhurlant/annees/1975.htm|title=Metal Hurlant année 1975|website=bdoubliees.com|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • April 7: In Pif gadget, the super-hero child Supermatou by Jean-Claude Poirier{{Cite web |title=Supermatou |url=https://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/supermatou.htm |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=www.coolfrenchcomics.com}} and Le Furet, by Eduardo Teixeira Coelho and Jean Ollivier, a hero living in the France of Louis XI,{{Cite web |title=Furet dans Vaillant/Pif |url=https://bdoubliees.com/vaillantpif/series2/furet.htm |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=bdoubliees.com}} make their debut.
  • April 13: in Topolino, Paperino e le ventimila beghe sotto i mari (Donald and twenty thousand troubles under the seas) by Luciano Gatto and Massimo Marconi, parody of Jules Verne’s novel.
  • April 21: first issue of the anthological magazine Lanciostory (Editoriale Aurea); it intorduces in Italy the Argentina comics.
  • Detective Comics, with issue #446, resumes a monthly schedule, after going bi-monthly in June/July 1973. (DC Comics)
  • Asterix and the great crossing by Goscinny and Uderzo (Dargaud); the story was prepublished in the newspaper Sud-Ouest.

=May=

  • May 25: In Il Corriere dei ragazzi, two new series make their debut: the humoristic La contea di Colbrino, by Adriano Carnivali, set in a parodic Renaissance Italy,{{Cite web |last=Redazione |date=2017-07-27 |title=La contea di Colbrino, episodio 1 |url=https://fumettologica.it/2017/07/adriano-carnevali-colbrino-episodio-1/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Fumettologica |language=it-IT}} and the adventurous Lord Shark, by Mino Milani and Giancarlo Alessandrini, set in colonial India.
  • May 25: n the Corriere dei piccoli, Gennarino Tarantella by Carlo Squillante makes his debut. It is the last "mute" comic made according to the traditional formula of the magazine, with rhymed captions instead of the balloons.{{Cite web |title=Carlo Squillante |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/squillante_carlo.htm |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=lambiek.net |language=en}}
  • Giant-Size X-Men #1, written by Len Wein and illustrated by Dave Cockrum (Marvel Comics).{{cite book|last1 = Sanderson|first1 = Peter|author-link = Peter Sanderson|last2= Gilbert|first2= Laura|chapter= 1970s|title = Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History|publisher = Dorling Kindersley|year = 2008|page = 169|isbn =978-0756641238|quote= [Editor Roy] Thomas realized that if X-Men was to be successfully revived, it needed an exciting new concept. Thomas came up with just such an idea: the X-Men would become an international team, with members from other countries as well as the United States. Writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum were assigned to the new project and the result was Giant-Size X-Men #1.}} First appearance of the new X-Men Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, and Thunderbird
  • In Disney Magazine #1, The Case of the Pea Soup Burglaries, by Carl Fallberg and Al Hubbard, first chapter of the saga Mickey and the Sleuth.
  • In Pilote Magazine, Ambassador of the shadows, by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mezieres.{{Cite web |title=L'ambasciatore delle ombre |url=https://www.ubcfumetti.com/val/6.htm |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=www.ubcfumetti.com}}
  • Fist issue of the series Daniel by Max Bunker and Frank Verola (Editoriale Corno); its hero is a vigilante working upon the identity of a policeman who died to save his life.{{Cite web |title=Daniel {{!}} Max Bunker |url=https://www.maxbunker.it/personaggi/daniel/ |access-date=2023-06-14 |language=it-IT}}

= June =

=July=

=August=

  • August 4: in Lanciostory, the western series Alamo Kid, by Anthony Mancuso and Giuseppe Montanari, makes its debut.{{Cite web |last=Italiano |first=Guida Fumetto |title=Alamo Kid |url=https://www.guidafumettoitaliano.com/guida/personaggi/personaggio/35 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20220705224739/https://www.guidafumettoitaliano.com/guida/personaggi/personaggio/35 |archive-date=2022-07-05 |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=www.guidafumettoitaliano.com}}
  • August 13: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Spike, brother of Snoopy, makes his debut.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/schulz.htm|title=Charles M. Schulz|website=lambiek.net|access-date=February 2, 2021}}
  • August 16: Jean-Pierre Girerd's On à Volé la Coupe Stanley is serialized in La Presse. The story will run until 19 June 1976.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/girerd_jean_pierre.htm|title=Jean-Pierre Girerd|website=lambiek.net|access-date=September 18, 2022}}
  • Uncanny X-Men #94 — first issue of title featuring the new X-Men. Written by Chris Claremont; he will write the title continuously for the next 17 years.
  • In Italy, first issue of La pantera rosa (The Pink panther) (Cenisio)

= Fall =

  • Atlas/Seaboard Comics folds, after parts of two years in business, having published 23 comics titles and five comics magazines.

=September=

  • September 12: Patty Klein and Jan Steeman's Noortje makes its debut in the Dutch girls' magazine Tina. It will run for 41 years, becoming the longest-running Dutch comic strip by the same creative team.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/steeman.htm|title=Jan Steeman|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • September 14: in Corriere dei ragazzi, debut of Altai & Johnson, by Tiziano Sclavi and Giorgio Cavazzano, two private eyes, heroes of semiserious detective stories.{{Cite web |title=Altai & Jonson - Originale coppia di investigatori privati nel fumetto di Sclavi e Cavazzano |url=https://www.slumberland.it/contenuto.php?id=20 |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=www.slumberland.it}}
  • September 16 : in Nouveau Tintin, Angel Face by Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud.{{Cite web |last=MAGNERON |first=Philippe |title=Blueberry -17- Angel Face |url=https://www.bedetheque.com/BD-Blueberry-Tome-17-Angel-Face-581.html |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=www.bedetheque.com |language=fr}}
  • Fist issue of Batman family (DC comics)
  • The first issue of the Dutch alternative comics magazine De Vrije Balloen is published.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/aanvang/1970vrijeballoen.htm|title=De Vrije Balloen|website=www.lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

= October =

  • October 3: The final issues Dutch comics magazines Sjors and Pep are published and both are merged into a new magazine which is first published on this date: Eppo. In 1985 it changes its name to Eppo Wordt Vervolgd, to tie in with the popular TV show Wordt Vervolgd about comics and cartoons.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/aanvang/1980eppo.htm|title=Eppo|website=www.lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • October 4: First strip of Inside Woody Allen, by Stuart Hample.
  • October 13 The first issue of the German children's comics magazine Yps is published and will run until 10 October 2000. It will be relaunched on 11 October 2012 as an adult magazine.
  • October 24: The Nero story De Groene Gravin by Marc Sleen begins publication in the newspapers and introduces Clo-Clo, the moustached son of Madam Pheip and Meneer Pheip.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sleen.htm|title=Marc Sleen|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • October 26: first strip of Crock, by Bill Rechin and Brant Parker.
  • Marvel debuts three new ongoing titles, The Champions, The Inhumans, and Marvel Presents. Simultaneously, it cancels six ongoing titles: Giant-Size Fantastic Four, Man-Thing, Outlaw Kid (vol. 2), Supernatural Thrillers, War is Hell, and Where Monsters Dwell.
  • In Pif Gadget, the crime series Sandberg pere et fils by Patrick Cothias and Alfonso Font (6 October){{Cite web |last=MAGNERON |first=Philippe |title=Sandberg (Père et Fils) - BD, informations, cotes |url=https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-48087-BD-Sandberg-Pere-et-Fils.html |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=www.bedetheque.com |language=fr}} and the western one Capitaine Apache, by Roger Lécureux and Norma (13 October){{Cite web |title=Morandière Norbert (Norma) dans Vaillant/Pif |url=https://www.bdoubliees.com/vaillantpif/auteurs4/norma.htm |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=www.bdoubliees.com}} make their debut.

= November =

  • November 13: Belgian comic artist Marc Sleen is honored with the Golden Cross of Officer in the Brabant Order of Merit.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sleen.htm|title=Marc Sleen|website=lambiek.net|access-date=30 January 2023}}
  • Skartaris introduced in 1st Issue Special #8. (DC Comics)
  • Korak, Son of Tarzan, with issue #60, changes its name to Tarzan Family. (DC Comics)

=December=

=Specific date unknown=

  • Costa Rican artist Carlos Alvarado Salazar creates Carlos Pincel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/alvarado_salazar_carlos.htm|title=Carlos Alvarado Salazar|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • Maurice Tillieux and Jijé receive the Stripschapprijs.[https://www.stripschap.nl/pages/stripschapprijzen/de-stripschapprijs.php Het Stripschap – De Stripschapprijs]
  • James McQuade's Honey Hooker makes its debut in Hustler.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mcquade_james.htm|title=James McQuade|website=lambiek.net|access-date=11 August 2024}}
  • In Argentina, Carlos Trillo makes his debut as comics’ writer. He publishes in the magazine Mengano the noir series Un tal Daneri, drawn by Alberto Breccia, and in the newspaper Clarin the adventures of the journalist Loco Chavez, drawn by Horacio Altuna.

Births

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Deaths

= January =

  • January 4: Bob Montana, American comics artist (Archie Comics), dies at age 54 of a heart attack.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/montana_bob.htm|title=Bob Montana|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • January 19: Marino Benejam Ferrer, Spanish comics artist (La Familia Ulises, Morcillón y Babalí, Los Grandes Inventos de TBO), dies at age 84.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/benejam_m.htm|title=Marino Benejam Ferrer|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

=February=

  • February 9: Blanche Dumoulin, aka Davine, Belgian comics artist and writer (Spirou, Les Aventures de Zizette), dies from cancer at age 80.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/davine.htm|title=Davine|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • February 20: Artie Simek, American comics letterer (Marvel Comics), dies at age 59.
  • February 28: Robert Lips, Swiss comics artist (Globi), dies at age 62.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lips_robert.htm|title=Robert Lips|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

=March=

  • March 2: Salvador Mestres, Spanish animator and comics artist (Tom Relámpango, El Tresoro Maldito, Mae Blond la Mujer Fantasma, El Héroe Público No. 1 contra el Enemigo Público No. 1, Gong!, Guerra en la Estratosfera), dies at age 64 or 65.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mestres_salvador.htm|title=Salvador Mestres|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

=April=

  • April 3: Otto Soglow, American comics artist (The Little King), dies at age 74.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/soglow_o.htm|title=Otto Soglow|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • April 11: Huibert Vet, Dutch illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 55.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/vet-huibert.htm|title = Huibert Vet}}
  • April 19: Jim Navoni, American comics artist (continued Have You Seen Alonso?), dies at age 87.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/navoni_jim.htm|title=Jim Navoni|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

=May=

  • May 1: José Peñarroya, Spanish comics artist (Don Pío, Calixto, Gordito Relleno, Don Berrinche, Pedrusco Brutote, La Familia Pi, Floripondia Piripi, Viborita, Pepe, el Hincha, Don José Calmoso, Pitagorín), dies at age 64 or 65.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/penarroya_jose.htm|title=José Peñarroya|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • May 8: George Baker, American comics artist (The Sad Sack), dies at age 59.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/baker_g.htm|title=George Baker|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • May 10: Walt Spouse, American comic artist (The Wonderland of Oz), dies at age 81.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/spouse_walt.htm|title=Walt Spouse|website=lambiek.net|access-date=September 8, 2024}}
  • May 25: Pal Korcsmaros, Hungarian journalist, illustrator and comic artist (comics based on literary classics), dies at age 61.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/korcsmaros.htm|title=Pal Korcsmaros|website=lambiek.net|access-date=April 22, 2021}}

=June=

  • June 3: Victor Dancette, French playwright and comics writer (La Bête est Morte), dies at age 74.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/calvo_ef.htm|title=Edmond François Calvo|website=lambiek.net|access-date=August 22, 2024}}
  • June 25: Gus Schrotter, Austrian-American comic artist and illustrator (Dan'l Flannel), dies at age 74.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/schrotter_gus.htm|title=Gus Schrotter|website=lambiek.net|access-date=August 22, 2024}}

=July=

=August=

  • August 5: Bob Karp, American comics writer (The Donald Duck newspaper comic), dies at age 64.
  • August 6: Horacio Rodríguez Suría, Cuban comics artist (Bola de Nieve, Mango Macho y Cascarita, Pelusa y Pimienta, El Profesor Timbeque), dies at age 73.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/rodriguez_suria_horacio.htm|title=Horacio Rodríguez Suría|website=lambiek.net|access-date=November 29, 2020}}
  • August 13:
  • Thornton Fisher, American comics artist (The Wishing Wisp, The Marrying of Mary), dies at age 87.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fisher_thornton.htm|title=Thornton Fisher|website=lambiek.net|access-date=November 29, 2020}}
  • Ogden Whitney, American comic artist (Herbie Popnecker, worked on Skyman), dies at age 56.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/whitney_ogden.htm|title=Ogden Whitney|website=lambiek.net|access-date=September 26, 2022}}
  • August 17: René Bastard, French comics artist (Yves Le Loup), dies at age 74.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bastard_rene.htm|title=René Bastard|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • August 22: Lancelot Hogben, British experimental zoologist and medical statistician (author of From Cave Paintings to Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication), dies at age 79.Kunitz, Stanley J. and Haycraft, Howard Twentieth Century Authors, A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, (Third Edition). New York, The H.W. Wilson Company, 1950, (pp. 658–59)

=September=

  • September 15: Carlos Conti, Spanish comics writer (Felipe Gafe, Superlópez), and artist (El Loco Carioco, Apolino Tarúguez, hombre de negocios, Mi tío Magdaleno, La vida adormilada de Morfeo Pérez, Don Fisgón, Don Alirón, El doctor No y su ayudante Sí), dies at age 59.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/conti_carlos.htm|title=Carlos Conti|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

=October=

  • October 2: Ton van Tast, Dutch illustrator, caricaturist, painter, lithographer and comics artist (De Daverende Dingen Dezer Dagen), dies at age 91.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tast_ton_van.htm|title=Ton van Tast|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • October 26: Asmo Alho, Finnish comics artist (Kieku ja Kaiku), dies at age 72.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/alho_asmo.htm|title=Asmo Alho|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

=November=

  • November 1: Mel Graff, American comics writer and artist (The Adventures of Patsy, assisted on Secret Agent X-9, continued Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy), dies at age 67 or 68.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/graff_mel.htm|title=Mel Graff|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • November 2: Ted McCall, Canadian journalist and comics writer (Royal Mounted, Robin Hood & Company, Freelance), dies at age 73.{{cite web | url=https://canadianaci.ca/Encyclopedia/mccall-ted/ | title=McCALL Ted | Canadian Animation, Cartooning and Illustration }}
  • November 5: Sigurd Lybeck, Norwegian writer and comics writer (Jens von Bustenskjold), dies at age 80.

=December=

  • December 13: John Millar Watt, British comics artist (Pop), dies at age 80.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/watt_jm.htm|title=John Millar Watt|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • December 14: Ben Thompson, American comics artist (Listen to This One, The Masked Marvel, Hydroman, Rainbow Boy, The Music Master), dies at age 69.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/thompson_ben.htm|title=Ben Thompson|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • December 18: Ray Bailey, American animator and comics artist (Vesta West, Bruce Gentry, Space Cadet Tom Corbett), dies at age 62.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bailey_ray.htm|title=Ray Bailey (II)|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • December 24: Harold Mack, British animator and comics artist (Les Aventures des Deux Barbus), dies at the age 67.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mack_harold.htm|title=Harold Mack|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

=Specific date unknown=

  • Arturo Lanteri, Argentine comics artist and film director (Les Aventuras de Negro Raúl, Don Pancho Talero, Anacleto), dies at age 93 or 94.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lanteri_arturo.htm|title=Arturo Lanteri|website=lambiek.net|access-date=May 20, 2020}}
  • Sergej Solovjev, Russian-Serbian comics atist dies at age 73 or 74.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/solovjev_sergej.htm|title = Sergej Solovjev}}

Exhibitions and shows

  • 18 Oct–2 Nov: Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England, U.K.) — "Marvel: Exhibition of Original Marvel Comics Art Work"[https://archive.ica.art/sites/default/files/downloads/Complete%20ICA%20Exhibitions%20List%201948%20-%20Present%20-%20July%202017.pdf Complete ICA Exhibitions List 1948–Present] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828003121/https://archive.ica.art/sites/default/files/downloads/Complete%20ICA%20Exhibitions%20List%201948%20-%20Present%20-%20July%202017.pdf |date=2020-08-28 }}, Institute of Contemporary Arts (July 2017).

Conventions

Awards

= [[National Cartoonists Society Division Awards]] =

First issues by title

= DC Comics =

Batman Family

: Release: September /October Editor: Julius Schwartz.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 164: "DC launched Batman Family with its memorable debut of the Batgirl-Robin team. Scribe Elliot S! Maggin and artist Mike Grell unleashed 'The Invader From Hell'."

Beowulf

: Release: April /May. Writer: Michael Uslan. Artist: Ricardo Villamonte.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 165: "Scribe Michael Uslan and artist Ricardo Villamonte introduced the broadsword-bashing hero of Anglo-Saxon myth in May's Beowulf: Dragon Slayer #1."

Claw the Unconquered

: Release: May/June. Writer: David Michelinie. Artist: Ernie Chua.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 163: "David Michelinie's pen and Ernie Chan's pencils and inks provided the magic for this fantasy series that introduced Claw the Unconquered, a barbaric outlander with a deformed claw-like right hand."

First Issue Special

: Release: April. Writer/Artist: Jack Kirby.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 162: "Debuting with Atlas the Great, writer and artist Jack Kirby didn't shrug at the chance to put his spin on the well-known hero."

Hercules Unbound

: Release: October /November Writer: Gerry Conway. Artists: José Luis García-López and Wally Wood.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 165: "Hercules Unbound featured powerful writing from Gerry Conway plus stellar artwork by José Luis García-López."{{cite book|last= Nolen-Weathington|first= Eric|title= Modern Masters, Volume 5: José Luis García-López|publisher= TwoMorrows Publishing|year= 2005|pages= 27–28|isbn= 978-1893905443}}

The Joker: arguably the first regular series to feature a villain.

: Release: May. Writer: Dennis O'Neil. Artist: Irv Novick and Dick Giordano.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 163: "It may have been an unusual idea at the time, but writer Denny'Oneil and artist Irv Novick decided to feature a villain in his own comic book. The Joker only lasted nine issues."

Justice, Inc.

: Release: May/June. Writer: Dennis O'Neil. Artist: Al McWilliams.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 163: "DC again translated pulp fiction into comics with a revival of the icy-eyed 1930s hero, the Avenger. Writer Denny O'Neil and artist Al McWilliams adapted the novel Justice, Inc. by "Kenneth Robeson" (a.k.a. writer Paul Ernst)."

Kong the Untamed

: Release: June/July. Writer: Jack Oleck. Artist: Alfredo Alcala.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 164: "Writer Jack Oleck and artist Alfredo Alcala focused on a primitive, powerful theme with which to depict the prehistoric warrior Kong in his debut issue: a growing son's bond with his mother."

Man-Bat

: Release: December 1975/January 1976. Writer: Gerry Conway. Artists: Steve Ditko and Al Milgrom.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 168: "Thanks to his appearances in Detective Comics and Batman, Man-Bat's popularity soared to the point where writer Gerry Conway and artist Steve Ditko launched the [character] into his own series."

Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter

: Release: April /May. Writer: Jim Dennis. Artist: Leo Duranona.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 163: "Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter was based on the 1974 novel Dragon's Fists by 'Jim Dennis' (the shared pseudonym of comic book writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Jim Berry)."

Secrets of Haunted House

: Release: April /May. Editor: Joe Orlando.

Sherlock Holmes

: Release: September /October Writers: Denny O'Neil (adaptation) and Arthur Conan Doyle (original story). Artists: E.R. Cruz.

Stalker

: Release: June/July. Writer: Paul Levitz. Artist: Steve Ditko.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 164: "This sword and sorcery title by scripter Paul Levitz and artist Steve Ditko epitomized the credo 'Be careful what you wish for'. The series anti-hero was a nameless wanderer whose dreams of becoming a warrior brought him first slavery, then worse."

Super-Team Family

: Release: October/November Editor: Gerry Conway.{{cite journal|last = Johnson|first = Dan|title = We Are (Super-Team) Family|journal= Back Issue!|issue = 66|pages = 8–14|publisher = TwoMorrows Publishing|date = August 2013}}

Tales of Ghost Castle

: Release: May/June Editor: Tex Blaisdell.

Tor: first DC issue, featuring reprints of a Kubert character created in 1953.

: Release: May/June Writer/Artist: Joe Kubert.McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 163: "In conjunction with DC's launch of fantasy/adventure titles, writer and artist Joe Kubert revived Tor, the caveman whose legend began in the early 1950s...Kubert's revival of Tor lasted six issues."

= Marvel Comics =

The Champions

: Release: October. Writer: Tony Isabella. Artists: Don Heck and Mike Esposito.Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 171: "Created by writer Tony Isabella and artist Don Heck, the Champions consisted of Angel, Iceman, Hercules, the Black Widow, and Ghost Rider."

Doc Savage: Man of Bronze

: Release: August by Curtis Magazines. Writer: Doug Moench. Artists: John Buscema and Tony DeZuniga.

Giant-Size Chillers

: Release: February.

Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up

: Release: March. Editor: Roy Thomas.{{cite journal|last = Carson|first = Lex|title = Bring Together the Bad Guys: Super-Villain Team-Up|journal= Back Issue!|issue = 66|pages = 38–42|publisher = TwoMorrows Publishing|date = August 2013}}Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 168: "After two giant-size issues, Super-Villain Team-Up switched to a thirty-two-page format in August [1975]."

Giant-Size X-Men

: Release: May. Writer: Len Wein. Artist: Dave Cockrum.

The Inhumans

: Release: October. Writer: Doug Moench. Artists: George Pérez and Frank Chiaramonte.{{cite journal|last = Boney|first = Alex|title = Inhuman Nature: Genetics, Social Science, and Superhero Evolution|journal = Back Issue!|issue = 65|pages = 61–68|publisher = TwoMorrows Publishing|date = July 2013}}

The Invaders

: Release: August. Writer: Roy Thomas. Artists: Frank Robbins and Vince Colletta.Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 170: "In 1975, Thomas and adventure comic strip artist Frank Robbins created the Invaders."

Kull and the Barbarians

: Release: May by Curtis Magazines. Writer/Editor: Roy Thomas.

Marvel Feature vol. 2

: Release: November. Editor: Roy Thomas.

Marvel Presents

: Release: October. Writer: John Warner. Artists: Mike Vosburg, Pat Boyette, and Bob McLeod.

Marvel Preview

: Release: Winter by Magazine Management/Curtis Magazines. Editor: Roy Thomas.

Masters of Terror

: Release: July by Curtis Magazines. Editor: Tony Isabella.

Skull the Slayer

: Release: August. Writer: Marv Wolfman. Artist: Steve Gan.

Super-Villain Team-Up

: Release: August. Writer: Tony Isabella.

Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction

: Release: January by Magazine Management/Curtis Magazines. Editor: Roy Thomas.

= Other publishers =

Arcade

: Release: Spring by The Print Mint. Editors: Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith.

Arzach

: Artist/Writer: Jean Giraud.

Battle Picture Weekly

: Release: March 8 by IPC Magazines. Editor: Pat Mills.

Big Apple Comix

: Release: by Big Apple Productions. Editor: Flo Steinberg.

Captain Canuck

: Release: July by Comely Comix. Writer/Artist: Richard Comely.

;The Demon Hunter

:Release: September by Atlas/Seaboard Comics. Writer: David Anthony Kraft Artist: Rich Buckler

Doomsday + 1

: Release: July by Charlton Comics. Writer: Joe Gill. Artist: John Byrne.

Scary Tales

: Release: August by Charlton Comics. Editor: George Wildman.

Zombie Hunter

: Release: May by Kadokawa Shoten. Writer: Kazumasa Hirai. Artist: Yang Kyung-il

Canceled titles

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= Marvel Comics =

== Curtis Magazines ==

= Other publishers =

  • E-Man vol. 1, with issue #10 (Charlton, September )
  • Mystery Comics Digest, with issue #26 (Gold Key, October )
  • Red Circle Sorcery, with issue #11{{cite web|url=http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?383610-Archie-s-foray-into-the-Horror-genre |title=Archie's Foray Into the Horror Genre |first=Brian |last=Gravity |date=September 7, 2011 |publisher=Comic Book Resources |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803014056/http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?383610-Archie-s-foray-into-the-Horror-genre |archive-date=August 3, 2018 |url-status = live|access-date=March 25, 2011 }} (Red Circle Comics/Archie Comics, February )

Initial appearance by character name

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