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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 * ''Jughead (comic book), Jughead'' #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'' (1948 series) #6 - Timely Comics March * ''Captain America Comics'' (1941 series) #71 - Timely Comics * ''Human Torch Comics'' (1940 series) #35 - Timely Comics - (The series will be cancelled for five years) * ''Nipper'', by Doug Wright (cartoonist), Doug Wright, debuts in the March 12 issue of Montreal Standard, The Montreal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Publications
Star Publications, Inc. was a 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, , and comics — but also published |
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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Strip
The Sunday comics or Sunday strip is the comic strip section carried in most western newspapers, almost always 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 Worth''. A continuity strip employs a narrative in an ongoing st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Ruggles
''Casey Ruggles'' is a Western (genre), 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 Don Markstein's Toonopedia Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. Until 1950, the Sunday strip and the daily strip both told the same story. Tufts' ghost writer, ghost artists and assistants were Al Plastino, Edmond Good, Alex Toth and Ruben Moreira. Tufts did not write or draw the Sunday strip between August 31, 1953, and January 30, 1954. The last Tufts' daily was April 3, 1954, and his last Sunday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Tufts
Chester Warren Tufts (December 12, 1925 – July 6, 1982),Chester Tufts 564-20-2613, at the via GenealogyBank.com. Source gives death date only as "July 1982". best known as Warren Tufts, was an American and artist- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus (comic Book)
''Venus'' is an American romance comic book published by Timely Comics in the United States. Running for 19 issues from 1948 until 1952 it transformed over its run from its romance led stories to finish as a science fiction and horror anthology. It is noted for introducing the Marvel character Venus and an early incarnation of Loki who would later become the nemesis of Marvel character Thor. The final three issues were published through Atlas Comics. Publication history ''Venus'' was first published by Marvel Comics in August 1948. Issue one starred the title character Venus, and was made up of three stories, two written by Stan Lee and penciled by George Klein and Ken Bald and a third was a one-page Hey Look! filler written and drawn by Harvey Kurtzman. Issue six saw the first Marvel Comics appearance of the god Loki, here acting as a villainous foil to Venus. From issue 10 the title took on a science fiction slant, and included stories by Russ Heath and Joe Maneely. By issue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Barks
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Barks worked for the Disney Studio and Western Publishing where he created Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), The Junior Woodchucks (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), Cornelius Coot (1952), Flintheart Glomgold (1956), John D. Rockerduck (1961) and Magica De Spell (1961). He has been named by animation historian Leonard Maltin as "the most popular and widely read artist-writer in the world". Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rival Beachcombers
"Rival Beachcombers" is a 10-page Disney comics story written, drawn, and lettered by Carl Barks. The story was first published in '' Walt Disney's Comics & Stories'' #103 (April 1949). It has been reprinted many times since. Story The story opens with Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie beachcombing. They are searching for valuables washed ashore by the winter waves. They meet Donald's ever-lucky cousin Gladstone Gander who is also beachcombing. The nephews find a newspaper from the previous year. It tells of a maharajah who lost a valuable ruby on the beach, and is offering a $10,000 reward for its return. Gladstone is interested, but decides to let the Ducks dig up their side of the beach looking for the ruby. If they don't find it, then he knows the ruby is on his side of the beach. He takes a nap. The Ducks work hard, but do not find the ruby. Donald tries to trick Gladstone into leaving the beach, but fails. Gladstone hires the Ducks to dig for the ruby, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney's Comics And Stories
''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'', sometimes abbreviated ''WDC&S'', is an American Comics anthology, anthology comic book series featuring characters from The Walt Disney Company's films and shorts, including Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Chip 'n Dale, Li'l Bad Wolf, Scamp (comics), Scamp, Bucky Bug, Grandma Duck, Brer Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh, and others. With more than 700 issues, ''Walt Disney's Comics & Stories'' is the longest-running Disney comics, Disney comic book in the United States, making it the flagship title, and is one of the best-selling comic books of all time. The book was originally published by Dell Comics (1940–1962), and there have been many revivals over the years, continuing the same legacy numbering. The revivals have been published by Gold Key Comics (1962–1984), Gladstone Publishing (1986–1990), Disney Comics (publishing), Disney Comics (1990–1993), back to Gladstone Publishing (1993–1999), Gemstone Publishing (2003–2008), Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Mail
The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper and news websitePeter Wilb"Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain", ''New Statesman'', 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) published in London. Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom's highest-circulated daily newspaper. Its sister paper ''The Mail on Sunday'' was launched in 1982, while Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline website, although the website is managed separately and has its own editor. The paper is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders, is the current chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team led by the editor, Ted Verity, who succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flook (comic Strip)
''Flook'' was a British comic strip which ran from 1949 to 1984 in the '' Daily Mail'' newspaper. It was drawn by Wally Fawkes (of the jazz group Wally Fawkes and the Troglodytes), who signed the strips as "Trog". It was the first newspaper comic strip to be published by the New Zealand newspaper '' Otago Daily Times'', where it ran from 1952 to 1979. Characters and story The central characters were a young boy called Rufus and his magical animal friend, Flook. According to the strip 'The Coming of Flook', which forms part of the cartoon book ''Rufus and Flook v. Moses Maggot'', we learn that Flook, who vaguely resembled a furry pig walking on his hind legs, was a creature from the age of the dinosaurs whom Rufus, in a dream, rescued from cavemen and who then came back to waking reality with him. Flook was able to talk (in seven languages) and was blessed with a fine sense of irony with which to temper Rufus' innocence and enthusiasm. He was also able to change shape into all man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wally Fawkes
Walter Ernest Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name "Trog" until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005 at the age of 81. Early history Fawkes was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and emigrated with his family to Britain in 1931. Enthused by comic books from a young age, Fawkes left school at fourteen to take up a scholarship to study at Sidcup Art School. After 18 months he left art school due to financial restraints. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Fawkes was first employed painting camouflage on factory roofs to hide them from enemy bombing. A bout of pleurisy made Fawkes unfit for service and he was instead employed by the Coal Commission to work on maps of coal seams. In 1942, he entered an art competition that was judged by the ''Daily Mail's'' chief cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, who found him work with the Clement Davies adverti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
