1967 in comics explained
See also: List of years in comics. Notable events of 1967 in comics.
Events and publications
Year overall
- In The Daily Orange, the Syracuse University students' newspaper, the initial story of Vaugh Bode’s Cheech Wizard, Race to the Moon, appears.
- In Milan, Renzo Barbieri and Giorgio Cavedon, after the bankruptcy of their Editrice 66, set up another publishing house specialized in erotic comics, ErreGi. The new label immediately gets a great public success.[1]
- On Almanacco dei comics, the catalog of the Lucca International Comics Fair, the first Italian graphic novel, La rivolta dei racchi (The riot of the ugly people) by Guido Buzzelli, is published.[2]
- La Vilaine Lulu by Yves-Saint Laurent (Tchou). The work, an erotic graphic novel created by the fashion designer ten years earlier, becomes controversial for its sadistic and pedophilic content.[3]
January
- January 7: Wim Lensen and Dick Matena's Polletje Pluim makes its debut in the women's weekly Prinses. [4]
- January 11: The final issue of the Flemish children's magazine Pum-Pum is published.[5]
- January 17: Greg and William Vance's Bruno Brazil makes its debut in Tintin.[6]
- January 17: In Tintin, Greg and Eddy Paape's Luc Orient makes its debut.[7] In the same issue, Mach 1 pour Steve Warson by Jean Graton, with the first appearance of the Michel Vaillant’s nemesis, the Leader.
- January 20: The Rolling Stones release their album Between the Buttons. On the back cover, a comic strip drawn by drummer Charlie Watts can be seen.[8]
- January 21: The first issue of the British comics magazine Pow! is published. It will run until 13 January 1968.
- January 21: The first issue of the British girls' comics magazine Mandy is published. It will run until 1991.[9]
- January 21: In Italy, the first issue of the comic series Pappagone (Gallo Rosso), by Luciano Bernasconi and Peppino De Filippo starts serialisation. De Filippo, who interpreted the protagonist in television, appears also in the series as a secondary character.
- Blackhawk #228, the beginning of "the New Blackhawk Era" — in the issues that follow, all characters but team leader Blackhawk gain a costumed superhero alter-ego at the behest of a shadowy government agency. (DC Comics)
- Detective Comics #359, "The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl," written by Gardner Fox and illustrated by Carmine Infantino. (DC Comics)--first appearance of Batgirl[10]
- "The Death of Ferro Lad" story arc begins in Adventure Comics #352, by Jim Shooter, Curt Swan, and George Klein (continued in Adventure Comics #353). (DC Comics)--first appearance of the Fatal Five
- Fightin' 5 #41—last issue, canceled by Charlton.
- Le dernier Spartiate by Jacques Martin.
- In Hara-Kiri, first episode of the underground comic Pravda la surviveuse by Guy Pellaert; for its feminist and anti-consumerist themes, it anticipates the youth protest of May 68.
February
- February 9: In Spirou, the Lucky Luke story La Diligence by René Goscinny and Morris starts serialisation.
- February 18: The first issue of the British comics magazine Fantastic is published. It will run until February 1968.
- February 25: The first issue of the British girls' comics magazine Tina is published, but will be cancelled in September, when it merges with Princess to become Princess Tina.
- February 28: In Tintin, the Ric Hochet story Suspense à la Télévision by Tibet and André-Paul Duchâteau starts serialisation.
- Ghost Rider #1 published
- Warfront #39 (1951 series) the final issue, canceled by Harvey Comics.
- Thor #137: Ulik debuts.
- Spyman is cancelled.
- In Walt Disney’s comics and stories, The Red Wasp Mystery, by Cecil Beard and Paul Murry, marks the debut of Red Wasp, a Mouseton superhero.
- Gerard Wiegel's Professor Cumulus debuts in De Volkskrant, where his adventures will run until 1970. [11]
March
April
May
- May 1: In an issue of the American satirical magazine The Realist Wally Wood creates the Disneyland Memorial Orgy, a highly subversive deconstruction of familiar Disney characters to commemorate Walt Disney's passing at the end of 1966.[15]
- May 5: Robert Crumb's character Mr. Natural makes his first appearance in the first issue of the underground newspaper Yarrowstalks.[16]
- May 14: In Topolino, Duckburg Delivered, a parody of Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, by Guido Martina and Giovan Battista Carpi, is printed.
- May 25: The final episode of David Wright and Peter Meriton's Carol Day is published.
- May 28: The first episode of Captain Kate by Jerry and Hally Skelly is published. It will run until 21 May 1972.[17]
- The first issue of The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves is published. It will run until January 1986.
- In Uncle Scrooge, The Cattle King by Carl Barks.
- In Almanacco Topolino, Paperone e l’angolare di sicurezza, by Rodolfo Cimino and Massimo De Vita marks the debut of Battista, Uncle Scrooge’s butler.
- Le Jene del Mare (The Sea Hyenas) by Guido Nolitta and Gallieno Ferri; the treasure seeker Digging Bill, recurring character in the Zagor series, makes his debut.[18]
June
July
August
- August 17: In Spirou, Un Métier de Chien (A Dog's Work) by Maurice Rosy and Derib starts serialisation, marking the debut of the series Les Aventures d'Attila, with a dog, agent of the Swiss secret service, as protagonist.[27]
- The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #101: "Jerry the Asto-Nut", Neal Adams' first full-length story for DC.
- Superman #199 Writer Jim Shooter and artist Curt Swan crafted the story "Superman's Race With the Flash!" which featured the first race between the Flash and Superman, two characters known for their super-speed powers.[28]
- Closure of the longtime publisher American Comics Group, and the cancellation of their long-running titles Adventures into the Unknown (174 issues), Forbidden Worlds (145 issues), and Unknown Worlds (57 issues).
- In the third issue of the underground newspaper Yarrowstalks Robert Crumb's character Flakey Foont makes his debut.
- The first issue of Not Brand Echh is published. It will run until May 1969.
- The final episode of Osamu Tezuka's Ambassador Magma is published.
- In Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks, Rescue of the Grand Mogul, by Vic Lockman and Tony Strobl; debut of the Gran Mogul.
September
October
November
December
Specific date unknown
- In Toronto, Canada, George Henderson aka Captain George, opens the first Canadian comics store Memory Lane, which is also one of the oldest in the world at that time. The store will remain in business until the 1980s.[38] [39]
- Bill Tidy's The Cloggies debuts in the satirical magazine Private Eye.
- Don Martin's Captain Klutz debuts in one of Mad Magazine's paperbacks.
- Vaughn Bodé's Cheech Wizard makes his debut.
- Robin Wood and Lucho Olivera 's Nippur de Lagash makes its debut.
- The first issue of Gordon Johnston's It Happened in Canada is published.
- The final episode of Jerry Robinson's True Classroom Flubs and Fluffs is published.
- The final episode of Robert Renzi and Augusto Pedrazza's Akim is published.
- The final episode of Alfred Mazure's Dick Bos is published.[40]
- Kinney National Company acquires National Periodical Publications (a.k.a. DC Comics).
- A tumultuous year for Charlton Comics, as they debut titles like Blue Beetle (vol. 5), The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves, Peacemaker, and Timmy the Timid Ghost; but are forced to cancel Fightin' 5, Thunderbolt, the afore-mentioned Peacemaker, Judomaster, and Captain Atom.
- George Perry and Alan Aldridge's The Penguin Book of Comics is published, the first British reference guide about comics. It will receive a revised edition in 1971.[41] [42] [43]
- Roberto Altomann publishes Geste Hypergraphique, a comic book with abstract imagery, a surreal plot and symbols and freeform interpunction.[44]
- Ralph Dunagin's Dunagin's People makes its debut. It will run until 2001.[45]
- Jean-Pol and Jacques van Melkebeke create Bi-Bip for Het Laatste Nieuws. The comic strip will have an unexpected international success and run until 1969.[46]
- Belgian novelist Hugo Claus and cartoonist hugOKÉ make a satirical comic book, Belgman.[47]
- In India, Anant Pai establishes the historical-educational comic book series Amar Chitra Katha.[48]
Births
February
- February 20: Kurt Cobain, American rock singer and guitarist (made some comics in his diaries, which were posthumously released), (d. 1994).[49]
August
Deaths
January
- January 21: Homer Fleming, American cartoonist and comics artist (Craig Kennedy), dies at age 84.[52]
March
April
- April 18: Pierre Mouchot, A.K.A. Chott, French comics publisher and comics artist (Éditions Piere Mouchot, Société d'Éditions Rhodaniennes), dies at age 54.[55]
- April 28: Jack Romer, American comics artist (TV Titters, Bobo & Binky), dies at age 69.[56]
May
June
- June 7: Willy Lateste, Belgian animator and comics artist (historical comics for Ons Volkske), dies at age 36.[59]
- June 16: Sam van Vleuten, Jr., Dutch illustrator and comic artist (made a comic about Baron Münchchausen), dies at age 62. [60]
- June 21: Stan Kaye, American comics artist (Hayfoot Henry, continued Superman, Batman), dies at age 50.[61]
- June 27: Charles A. Winter, aka Chuck Winter, American comics artist (Liberty Belle), dies at age 80.[62]
July
August
September
- September 4: Margit Uppenberg, aka Gobi, Swedish comics artist and illustrator (Pian), dies at age 60.[65]
- September 28: Romà Bonet Sintes, AKA Bon, Spanish caricaturist and comic artist, dies at age 81.[66]
October
December
Specific date unknown
- Jean Bellus, French comics artist (Georgie, Laurel et Hardy, worked on Le Crime Ne Paie Pas), dies at age 55 or 56.[69]
- Jean Dratz, Belgian painter, caricaturist and comics artist (Petit Chéri), dies at age 61 or 62.[70]
- Li Fan-fu, Chinese comics artist (Young Master, Old Master Ho), dies at age 60 or 61.[71]
- Branko Vidić, Serbian novelist and comics writer (Zigomar), dies at age 62 or 63.[72]
Exhibitions
Conventions
Awards
Best Comic Magazine Section
- Adventure Book with the Main Character in the Title - The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
- Adventure Hero Title with One or More Characters in Own Strip - Strange Tales (Marvel Comics)
- Super Hero Group Title - Fantastic Four (Marvel Comics)
- Non-Super-Powered Group Title - Challengers of the Unknown (DC Comics)
- Fantasy/SF/Supernatural Title - The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves (Charlton Comics)
- Western Title - Ghost Rider (Marvel Comics)
- War Title - Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos (Marvel Comics)
- Humor Title: Teenage - Archie (Archie Comics)
- Humor Title: Costumed - Not Brand Echh (Marvel Comics)
- Humor Title: Juvenile - Uncle Scrooge (Western Publishing)
- All-Reprint Title - Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel Comics)
- Combination New & Reprint Material Title - Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel Comics)
Best Professional Work
Popularity Poll
Newspaper Strip Section
Fan Activity Section
- Best All-Article Fanzine - (tie) Batmania and Gosh Wow
- Best All-Strip Fanzine - Star-Studded Comics
- Best All-Fiction Fanzine - Stories of Suspense
- Best Article/Strip Fanzine - Fantasy Illustrated
- Best Fiction/Strip Fanzine - Star-Studded Comics
- Best Article/Fiction Fanzine - (tie) Gosh Wow and Huh!
- Best Fannish One-Shot - Fandom Annual
- Best Article on Comic Book Material - "Blue Bolt and Gang" (Gosh Wow #1)
- Best Article on Comic Strip Material - "Gully Foyle" (Star-Studded Comics #11)
- Best Regular Fan Column - "What's News", by Dave Kaler
- Best Fan Fiction - "Nightwalker", by Larry Brody (Gosh Wow #1)
- Best Fan Comic Strip - "Xal-Kor", by Richard "Grass" Green
- Best Fan Artist - George Metzger
- Best Comic Strip Writer - Larry Herndon
- Best Fan Project - 1967 South-Western Con
- Best Newsletter - On the Drawing Board, by Bob Schoenfeld
First issues by title
Marvel Comics
- America's Best TV Comics
Release: mid-year. Writer: Stan Lee. Artists: Jack Kirby, Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers, John Romita Sr.Ghost Rider
Release: February. Writers: Gary Friedrich and Roy Thomas. Artists: Dick Ayers and Vince Colletta.
Not Brand Echh
Release: August. Editor: Stan Lee.
Charlton Comics
Blue Beetle (vol. 5)
Release: June by Charlton Comics. Writer/Artist: Steve Ditko.
The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves
Release: May by Charlton Comics. Editor: Dick Giordano.
Peacemaker
Release: March by Charlton Comics. Writer: Joe Gill. Artist: Pat Boyette.
Timmy the Timid Ghost vol. 2
Release: October by Charlton Comics. Editor: Pat Masulli.
Other publishers
Valérian and Laureline, in Pilote magazine
Release: November by Dargaud. Writer: Pierre Christin. Artist: Jean-Claude Mézières.
Wonder Wart-Hog
Release: Millar Publishing Company. Writer: Gilbert Shelton and Tony Bell. Artist: Gilbert Shelton.
Initial appearances by character name
Charlton Comics
DC Comics
Marvel Comics
Comic strips
Notes and References
- Web site: Renzo Barbieri - Pioniere del fumetto erotico-pornografico italiano . 2023-03-15 . www.slumberland.it.
- Web site: 2017-07-13 . BUZZELLI, L'INVENTORE ITALIANO DEI GRAPHIC NOVEL . 2023-03-15 . - GIORNALE POP - . it-IT.
- Web site: admin . 2013-07-24 . "La Vilaine Lulu", le livre scandale d'Yves Saint-Laurent . 2023-03-22 . Valeurs actuelles . fr-FR.
- Web site: Dick Matena. lambiek.net. 18 December 2023.
- KOUSEMAKER, Kees en Evelien, "Wordt Vervolgd- Stripleksikon der Lage Landen", Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht, Antwerpen, 1979, page 195
- Web site: William Vance. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Eddy Paape. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Charlie Watts. lambiek.net. December 13, 2020.
- http://www.26pigs.com/mandy/index.html Mandy
- Book: McAvennie, Michael. Dolan . Hannah. 1960s. DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. . 2010 . 978-0-7566-6742-9 . 122 .
- Web site: Gerard Wiegel. lambiek.net. 18 March 2023.
- Web site: David Sutherland. lambiek.net. 16 February 2023.
- Web site: Charles M. Schulz. lambiek.net. February 2, 2021.
- http://www.taseyad.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1:artsbkimdir&catid=1:catsbkimdir&Itemid=5 Sezgin Burak Kimdir?
- Web site: Wallace Wood. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Robert Crumb. lambiek.net. 18 March 2023.
- Web site: Jerry Skelly. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Le jene del mare . 2023-04-12 . www.ubcfumetti.com.
- Web site: Tina. www.lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Verso l'ignoto . 2023-04-12 . www.ubcfumetti.com.
- Web site: Roland J. Scott. lambiek.net. 16 May 2021.
- News: Violet Higgins Dies; Illustrator was 80 . October 7, 2020 . New York Times . July 30, 1967 . 64 . en.
- Web site: Rolf Kauka. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Hugo Pratt. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 124: "Adams commandeered his first DC work as a penciler/inker with 'It's My Turn to Die' a nine-page back-up tale written by Howard Liss for Our Army at War #182 in July [1967]...The following month, The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #101 perfectly illustrated how Adams was equally adept at delivering the art of laughter. In his first full-length story for DC, he provided writer Arnold Drake's space odyssey 'Jerry the Asto-Nut' with a photo-realistic flare not seen in comics."
- Web site: Robert Crumb. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: MAGNERON . Philippe . Attila (Les aventures d') - BD, informations, cotes . 2023-04-19 . www.bedetheque.com . fr.
- McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 124: "Since the dawn of comics' Silver Age, readers have asked 'Who's faster: Superman or the Flash?' Writer Jim Shooter and artist Curt Swan tried answering that question when the Man of Steel and the Fastest Man Alive agreed to the U.N.'s request to race each other for charity."
- Web site: Pierre Seron. lambiek.net. July 18, 2024.
- Web site: Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Redeye. www.toonopedia.com. May 15, 2020.
- https://www.stripschap.nl/pages/het-stripschap/het-stripschap.php Het Stripschap – Het Stripschap
- McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 125"
- Web site: Comic Book Legends Revealed #226 . Cronin . Brian . September 24, 2009 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20120126083406/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2009/09/24/comic-book-legends-revealed-226/ . January 26, 2012 . dead . December 22, 2011 . One comic that I know preceded the 1971 amendment [to the Comics Code] was Strange Adventures #205, the first appearance of Deadman!...a clear reference to narcotics, over THREE YEARS before Marvel Comics would have to go without the Comics Code to do an issue about drugs. .
- Web site: Il sito di Franco Franchi e Ciccio Ingrassia - by Antonio Salerni . 2023-04-26 . www.francociccio.altervista.org.
- Web site: Pierre Christin. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Jean-Claude Mézières. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Bob de Moor. lambiek.net. February 3, 2024.
- Web site: CBC Archives.
- Web site: Vintage Toronto Ads: Memory Lane. Sep 2, 2015. Torontoist. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Alfred Mazure. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Comic & Sequential Art :: Golden & Silver Age (1938-1970) :: The Penguin Book of Comics, A Slight History devised by George Perry and Alan Aldridge - First Printing. stuartngbooks.com. May 15, 2020.
- Book: Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books. 9781604732672. Gabilliet. Jean-Paul. 2010. Univ. Press of Mississippi .
- Web site: Alan Aldridge. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Roberto Altmann. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Ralph Dunagin.
- Web site: Jean-Pol. lambiek.net.
- Web site: hugOKÉ. lambiek.net.
- Web site: Anant Pai. lambiek.net.
- Web site: Kurt Cobain. lambiek.net. May 21, 2020.
- Web site: 2011-02-18 . Comics Industry Birthdays CBGXtra . 2023-05-30 . 2016-01-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160121154047/http://www.cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/comics-industry-birthdays . bot: unknown .
- News: Fremion . Yves . Gravett . Paul . 2015-01-13 . Stéphane Charbonnier obituary . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-11-24 . 0261-3077.
- Web site: Homer Fleming. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Gil Turner. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Anders Bjørgaard. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Chott. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Jack Romer. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Wallace Carlson. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: David Wright. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Willy Lateste. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Sam van Vleuten. lambiek.net. October 24, 2023.
- Web site: Stan Kaye. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Charles A. Winter. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Ondrej Sekora. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Marian Walentynowicz. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Margit Uppenberg. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Romà Bonet Sintes. lambiek.net. October 1, 2022.
- Web site: Bob Powell. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Mac Raboy. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Jean Bellus. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Jean Dratz. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: Li Fan-fu. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
- Web site: [Projekat Rastko] Здравко Зупан и Славко Драгинчић: Историја југословенског стрипа I]. www.rastko.rs. May 15, 2020.
- News: Maggie Thompson. Thompson . Maggie . Conventions . Newfangles . 2 . May 1967 . 2.
- Web site: Beerbohm . Robert . Robert Beerbohm. Update to Comics Dealer Extraordinaire Robert Beerbohm: In His Own Words . Comic-Convention Memories . June 24, 2010.
- Book: Schelly, Bill . Bill Schelly. Founders of Comic Fandom: Profiles of 90 Publishers, Dealers, Collectors, Writers, Artists and Other Luminaries of the 1950s And 1960s . McFarland . 2010 . 60.
- Book: Detroit Free Press . June 11, 1967.
- News: Shapiro . Hal. 1969 DTFF program booklet. 1969. Detroit Triple Fan Fair.
- News: RBCC: Rocket's Blast Comicollector . 52 . 1967. James Van Hise.