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1949 In Comics
Notable events of 1949 in comics. Events and publications Publishers Star Publications, Toby Press, and Youthful (publisher), Youthful make their debuts; conversely, Columbia Comics, Novelty Press, and Street & Smith Comics all fold. Year overall January * January 22: Peyo's gag comic ''Poussy'' is first published in ''Le Soir''. * ''Captain America Comics'' (1941 series) #70 - Timely Comics * ''Human Torch Comics'' (1940 series) #34 - Timely Comics * ''Joker Comics'' (1942 series) #35 - Timely Comics * ''Jughead (comic book), Jughead'' (1949 series) #1 - Archie Comics February * Lana (1948 series) #4 - Timely Comics *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #90 - Timely Comics * ''Sub-Mariner Comics'' (1941 series) #30 - Timely Comics * ''Two Gun Kid (comic book), Two-Gun Kid'' (1948 series) #6 - Timely Comics March * ''Captain America Comics'' (1941 series) #71 - Timely Comics * ''Human Torch Comics'' (1940 series) #35 - Timely Comics * ''Joker Comics'' (1942 series) #36 - Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Publications
Star Publications, Inc. was a Golden Age of Comic Books, Golden Age American comic book publisher, operating during the years 1949–1954. Founded by artist/editor L. B. Cole and lawyer Gerhard Kramer,Kramer bio Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999. Accessed July 29, 2011. Star specialized in Horror comics, horror, Crime comics, crime, and Romance comics, romance comics — but also published funny animal stories.Sibra, Steve. "Another Side of L.B. Cole: The Funny Animal Comics of Star Publications," ''Comic Book Marketplace'' vol. 2, #43 (Jan. 1997), pp. 34-38. Star was originally based in New York City before relocating to Buffalo, New York. Notable creators who contributed to Star Publications titles included Nina Albright, Tex Blaisdell, Frank Frazetta, Milt Hammer, Alvin Hollingsworth, Joe Kubert, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Wright (cartoonist)
Douglas Austin Wright (August 11, 1917 – January 3, 1983) was a Canadian cartoonist, best known for his weekly comic strip ''Doug Wright's Family'' (1949–1980; also known as ''Nipper'') . The Doug Wright Awards are named after him to honour excellence in Canadian cartooning. Biography After emigrating to Canada in 1938, Wright worked as an illustrator at an insurance company before serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War Two. It was here that his cartoons of fellow servicemen first drew the eye of a magazine editor. After freelancing in Montreal for a few years after the war, Wright took over ''Juniper Junction'' in 1948 after its creator, Jimmy Frise, died suddenly. Within a year, Wright launched a wordless and untitled gag strip about a little boy for the ''Montreal Standard'' (called ''The Weekend'' magazine after 1951). Eventually entitled ''Nipper'', the strip switched to ''The Canadian'', another national weekly newspaper supplement, in 1967 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Strip
The Sunday comics or Sunday strip is the comic strip section carried in some Western newspapers. Compared to weekday comics, Sunday comics tend to be full pages and are in color. Many newspaper readers called this section the Sunday funnies, the funny papers or simply the funnies. The first US newspaper comic strips appeared in the late 19th century, closely allied with the invention of the color press. Jimmy Swinnerton's ''The Little Bears'' introduced sequential art and recurring characters in William Randolph Hearst's ''San Francisco Examiner''. In the United States, the popularity of color comic strips sprang from the newspaper war between Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. Some newspapers, such as ''Grit (newspaper), Grit'', published Sunday strips in black-and-white, and some (mostly in Canada) print their Sunday strips on Saturday. Subject matter and genres have ranged from adventure, detective and humor strips to dramatic strips with soap opera situations, such as ''Mary Wort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Ruggles
''Casey Ruggles'' is a Western comic strip written and drawn by Warren Tufts that ran from May 22, 1949, to October 30, 1955. Publication history The Sunday strip was launched May 22, 1949, and the daily strip on September 19, 1949.''Casey Ruggles'' at Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. Until 1950, the Sunday strip and the daily strip both told the same story. Tufts' ghost artists and assistants were [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
