
Vibranium makes its first Marvel Universe appearance, in Daredevil #13. The first episode of Max Bunker and Roberto Raviola (Magnus) 's Gesebel is published. In Quino's Mafalda Miguelito makes his debut. February 27: Dick Cavalli's Winthrop makes its debut, after debuting under the different name Morty Meekle on 9 January 1956. February 10: Francis' Marc Lebut et son Voisin debuts in Spirou, where it will run for 20 years. February 6: Bob West's Theophilus makes its debut. February 5: The first issue of the British comics magazine Smash is published. Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt (1966 series) #1 – Charlton Comics – The first appearance of Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt by creator Pete Morisi. House of Mystery ( 1951 series) #156 – DC Comics – First Dial H for Hero by writer Dave Wood and artist Jim Mooney. Hawkman ( 1964 series) #11 – DC Comics – The first appearance of the Shrike by writer Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson. Adventure Comics ( 1938 series) #340 – DC Comics – The first appearance of Computo by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Curt Swan. January 22: The first issue of the British comics magazine Lady Penelope is published. January 21: The final episode of Pieter Kuhn's Kapitein Rob is published. January 18: in Le journal de Tintin, Concerto pour pilotes by Jean Graton. January 9: in the French magazine Vaillant, debut of the series Le Grêlé 7/13, by Lucien Nortier and Roger Lécureux, with a young maquisard as protagonist. January 9: For the first time since 1952 a new episode of Will Eisner's The Spirit is published. January 8: The final issue of the Italian comics magazine Il Vittorioso is published. January 4: Greg and Hermann's Bernard Prince makes his debut.
January 1: The final episode of Theo Fünke Kupper's De Verstrooide Professor is published.
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). Myron Fass founds Eerie Publications and M.
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