Cancellation of Apache Kid, with issue #19, Atlas.
In Italy, the Donald Duck story Paperino Don Chisciotte (Duck Quixote), by Guido Martina (script) and Pier Lorenzo de Vita (drawings), a parody of Don Quixote set in modern California, with Donald Duck in the title role and Goofy as Sancho Panza is published. After Mickey Mouse’s Hell, it is the second retelling by Martina of a literary masterpiece with the Disney characters.
In Valiant, Jacques Flash by Roger Lecareux and Pierre Le Guen, a journalist-detective with the power of invisibility, makes his début.
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June 10: In the Italian Disney magazine Topolino, in the story Topolino e la grande impresa di Lascia o t’accoppo, by Guido Martina and Giovan Battista CarpiMickey Mouse and Uncle Scrooge appear in the same story, which is an unusual situation, since characters from these two universes rarely overlap in Disney comic stories.
September 1: In Het ParoolPiet Wijn's Frank, De Vliegende Hollander is cancelled after a year, to make place for the comeback of Pieter J. Kuhn's Kapitein Rob.[6][7]
September 21: The Nero story De IJzeren Kolonel by Marc Sleen is first published in the newspapers. Halfway the story the major antagonist of the series, Ricardo, makes his debut.
Cancellation of the American comics magazine Panic.
The final issue of the Belgian comics magazine Heroïc Albums is published.[12]
In Uncle Scrooge, Back To Long Ago!, by Carl Barks, 16th-century ancestors of Scrooge McDuck and Donald Duck are introduced. In the following years, this narrative device will be widely imitated by other Disney authors.
In the French magazine Valiant, the little Indian Cha’pa and his friend, the imaginary animal Group-Group, by Jean Ollivier and Ramon Monzon, and the couple of amateur detectvies Richard and Charlie, by Jean Tabary, make their debut.[18]
October 6: Erwin Barta, Hungarian painter, illustrator and graphic artist (Hannibal the all round sportsman), dies at age 78.[34]
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December 9: Uriel Birnbaum, Austrian illustrator, painter, poet, poster artist and comics artist, dies at age 62.[35]
December 31: Norm Rice, Australian comics artist (Powerman, Steele Carewe, Nick Carver of the Circus, continued Bluey and Curley), dies in a car accident.[36]
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