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1966 In Comics
Notable events of 1966 in comics. Events and publications Year overall * Myron Fass founds Eerie Publications and M. F. Enterprises *In Italy, while the success of Satanik generates several black comics with female protagonists (''Samantha, Masokis, Super women, Jena''), all short lived, the writer and publisher Renzo Barbieri launches the first explicitly erotic comics (the spy-story ''Goldrake'', the peplum ''Messalina'', the swashbuckler '' Isabella''). January * January 1: The final episode of Theo Fünke Kupper's ''De Verstrooide Professor'' is published. * January 4: Greg and Hermann's '' Bernard Prince'' makes his debut. * January 8: The final issue of the Italian comics magazine '' Il Vittorioso'' is published. * January 9: For the first time since 1952 a new episode of Will Eisner's '' The Spirit'' is published. * January 9: in the French magazine ''Vaillant'', debut of the series ''Le Grêlé 7/13'', by Lucien Nortier and Roger Lécureux, with a young maquisa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myron Fass
Myron Fass (March 29, 1926 – September 14, 2006)Social Security Death Index, SS# 111-18-9098. was an American publisher of pulp magazines and comic books, operating from the 1950s through the 1990s under a multitude of company names, including M. F. Enterprises and Eerie Publications. At his height in the 1970s, Fass was known as the biggest multi-title newsstand magazine publisher in the country. He put out up to fifty titles a month, many of them one-offs, covering any subject matter he thought would sell, from soft-core pornography to professional wrestling, UFOs to punk rock, horror films to firearm magazines. Biography Early life Fass was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of an Orthodox Jewish laborer.Brinkman, Tom"Myron Fass — Demon God of Pulp," Bad Mags. Accessed Aug. 10, 2011. Comics artist Starting in 1948 and until the mid-1950s shrinkage of the industry initiated by the institution of the Comics Code, Fass illustrated horror, crime, romance, Western, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Graton
Jean Graton (10 August 1923 – 21 January 2021) was a French comic book author and cartoonist. Graton created the character Michel Vaillant and the eponymous series in 1957. Biography Graton was born in Nantes, France, in 1923. He moved to Brussels in 1947 and worked there in animation and advertising companies. He was hired by '' Spirou'' magazine in 1952, for which he illustrated '' Belles Histoires de l'Oncle Paul''. Determined to create and draw his own characters, he got a job for ''Tintin'' magazine. From 1953, he published his own stories in ''Tintin''. Some consisting of a few strips, and most related to sports and automobiles, were published in 1957 by Le Lombard in an album entitled ''Ca c'est du sport!''. In 1957, Graton created the character Michel Vaillant. Some short comics were published in ''Tintin'' and acquired huge popularity. As soon as 1959, a full album was published by Le Lombard. In 1966, Graton created the ''Les Labourdet'' series with his wife, Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murphy Anderson
Murphy C. Anderson Jr. (July 9, 1926 – October 22, 2015) was an American comics artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s. He worked on such characters as Hawkman, Batgirl, Zatanna, the Spectre, and Superman, as well as on the ''Buck Rogers'' daily syndicated newspaper comic strip. Anderson also contributed for many years to '' PS'', the preventive maintenance comics magazine of the U.S. Army. Early life and career Murphy Anderson was born on July 9, 1926, in Asheville, North Carolina, and while in grade school moved with his family to Greensboro, North Carolina. After graduating high school in 1943, he briefly attended the University of North Carolina before moving to New York City seeking work in the comics industry, and was hired by Jack Byrne as a staff artist at the comic-book publisher Fiction House. His first confirmed credit is the two-an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardner Fox
Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986) was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. He is estimated to have written more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics. Fox was also a science fiction author and wrote many novels and short stories. Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes Barbara Gordon, the original Flash, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Doctor Fate, Zatanna and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed several of those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America, and later recreated the team as the Justice League of America. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story " Flash of Two Worlds!". Early life and career Gardner Cooper Fox was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Julia Veronica (Gardner) and Leon Francis Fox, an engineer. Unlike many of his contemporaries in the comic book field, such as Jack Kirby and Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrike
Shrikes () are passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of 34 species in two genera. The family name, and that of the larger genus, '' Lanius'', is derived from the Latin word for "butcher", and some shrikes are also known as butcherbirds because of the habit, particularly of males, of impaling prey onto plant spines within their territories. These larders have multiple functions, attracting females and serving as food stores. The common English name shrike is from Old English , alluding to the shrike's shriek-like call. Taxonomy The family Laniidae was introduced (as the subfamily Lanidia) in 1815 by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. The type genus '' Lanius'' had been introduced by Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 In Comics
Notable events of 1964 in comics. Publications January * January 1: Jaxon's ''God Nose'' makes its debut. It is one of the earliest underground comix. * January 6: Jay Heavilin and Frank B. Johnson's ''Einstein'' makes its debut. It will run until 13 February 1965. * January 10 - March 23: Berlin v. E.C. Publications, Inc.: The estates of Irving Berlin and other songwriters sue EC Comics over a parody in Mad Magazine special #11, but lose their case. * January 11: The first issue of the British illustrated girls' magazine '' Jackie'' is published. It will run until 3 July 1993. * January 23: in ''Pilote'', first chapter of ''L'Œuf de Karamazout'', by Jidehem, of the series '' Starter''; Sophie makes her debut. * January 24: The final issue of Hans G. Kresse's '' Eric de Noorman'' is published. * January 28: in ''Le journal de Tintin'', Belgian edition, debut of the sea adventures series ''Howard Flynn'', by William Vance and Yves Duval. *''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (1963 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawkman
Hawkman is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Neville, the original Hawkman first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1, published by All-American Publications in 1940. Although iterations of Hawkman appeared throughout the character's publication history, they are commonly characterized as hawk-themed warriors with a preference for archaic weaponry, large wings with a harness attached to it, and possessing Nth metal, which is a special metal with gravity-negating effects. Most iterations are also connected as being involved in a cycle of reincarnation, characterized as sometimes having reoccurring elements within their lifetimes. Among the reoccurring includes a romantic connection to reincarnated Hawkwoman or Hawkgirl and an affiliation with superhero teams such as the Justice Society of America and Justice League, often serving as the team leader in the former. The character is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Swan
Douglas Curtis Swan (February 17, 1920 – June 17, 1996) was an American comics artist. The artist most associated with Superman during the period fans call the Bronze Age of Comic Books, Swan produced hundreds of covers and stories from the 1950s through the 1980s. Biography Early life and career Curt Swan was born in Minneapolis on February 17, 1920, the youngest of five children. Swan's Swedes, Swedish grandmother had shortened and Americanized the original family name of Svensson. Father John Swan worked for the Rail transport, railroads; mother Leontine Jessie Hanson had worked in a local hospital. As a boy, Swan's given name – Douglas – was shortened to "Doug," and, disliking the phonetic similarity to "Dog," Swan thereafter reversed the order of his given names and went by "Curtis Douglas," rather than "Douglas Curtis." Having enlisted in Minnesota's National Guard's 135th Regiment, 34th Infantry Division (United States), 34th Division in 1940, Swan was sent to Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
