January 20: The New Yorker publishes a strange comic strip by cartoonist George Booth, involving cave people with a strange vocabulary. Titled Ip Gissa Gul, it becomes a classic afterwards.[1]
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.[9]
April
April 1: The first issue of the French satirical comics magazine Fluide Glacial is published.[10]
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.
Detective Comics, with issue #446, resumes a monthly schedule, after going bi-monthly in June/July 1973. (DC Comics)
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.[16]
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.[19]
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.
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.[20]
The first issue of the Dutch alternative comics magazine De Vrije Balloen is published.[23]
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.[24]
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.[25]
December 28: In the Italian Disney magazine Topolino 1048, Ellsworth's Ornery Orphan by Romano Scarpa, Ellroy, the adoptive son of Ellsworth makes his debut.
December 28: in Corriere dei piccoli, debut of the didactic comics for children Piero, Patti e Passatù, by Enrico Bagnoli.
James McQuade's Honey Hooker makes its debut in Hustler. [29]
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.
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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.[34]
April 11: Huibert Vet, Dutch illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 55.[36]
April 19: Jim Navoni, American comics artist (continued Have You Seen Alonso?), dies at age 87.[37]
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.[38]
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.[46]
August 13:
Thornton Fisher, American comics artist (The Wishing Wisp, The Marrying of Mary), dies at age 87.[47]
August 17: René Bastard, French comics artist (Yves Le Loup), dies at age 74.[49]
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.[50]
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.[51]
October
October 2: Ton van Tast, Dutch illustrator, caricaturist, painter, lithographer and comics artist (De Daverende Dingen Dezer Dagen), dies at age 91.[52]
October 26: Asmo Alho, Finnish comics artist (Kieku ja Kaiku), dies at age 72.[53]
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.[54]
November 2: Ted McCall, Canadian journalist and comics writer (Royal Mounted, Robin Hood & Company, Freelance), dies at age 73. [55]
December 14: Ben Thompson, American comics artist (Listen to This One, The Masked Marvel, Hydroman, Rainbow Boy, The Music Master), dies at age 69.[57]
^McAvennie, Michael (2010). "1970s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 162. ISBN978-0-7566-6742-9. 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.
^Cronin, Brian (February 18, 2010). "Comic Book Legends Revealed #248". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on October 1, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2013. 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!
^ abSanderson, Peter; Gilbert, Laura (2008). "1970s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. Dorling Kindersley. p. 169. ISBN978-0756641238. [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.
^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)
^Ashton, Bill. "POW! Comic Book Buffs Swoop Into Town for a 3-Day Bash," Miami Herald (1979).
^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'."
^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."
^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."
^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."
^McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 165: "Hercules Unbound featured powerful writing from Gerry Conway plus stellar artwork by José Luis García-López."
^Nolen-Weathington, Eric (2005). Modern Masters, Volume 5: José Luis García-López. TwoMorrows Publishing. pp. 27–28. ISBN978-1893905443.
^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."
^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)."
^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."
^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."
^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)."
^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."
^Johnson, Dan (August 2013). "We Are (Super-Team) Family". Back Issue! (66). TwoMorrows Publishing: 8–14.
^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."
^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."
^ abcdCarson, Lex (August 2013). "Bring Together the Bad Guys: Super-Villain Team-Up". Back Issue! (66). TwoMorrows Publishing: 38–42.
^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]."
^Boney, Alex (July 2013). "Inhuman Nature: Genetics, Social Science, and Superhero Evolution". Back Issue! (65). TwoMorrows Publishing: 61–68.
^Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 170: "In 1975, Thomas and adventure comic strip artist Frank Robbins created the Invaders."
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