January 1: Debut of Dudley D. Watkins' Jimmy and his Magic Patch in The Beano.
January 19: Marten Toonder's Tom Poes story De Superfilm-onderneming is first published. Halfway the story the antagonists Bul Super and Hiep Hieper make their debut.
August 13: Barbara Shermund publishes the first episode of her cartoon feature Shermund's Sallies, which will run inPictorial Review until 2 June 1957.
Captain America Comics #41 - Timely Comics
September
September 23: The entire editorial staff of Belgian newspaper Le Soir is arrested for Nazi collaboration. Hergé's Tintin story The Seven Crystal Balls, which ran in the paper, is discontinued and won't be resumed until 1946, albeit in the magazine Tintin. Hergé is jailed for a night, but freed again without any further charges. Nevertheless he is unable to draw comics for about two years.
September 30: In issue #30 of Superman recurring villain Mister Mxyzptlk makes his debut..
All-Winners Comics #13 - Timely Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics #58 - Timely Comics
Sub-Mariner Comics'' #14 - Timely Comics
October
October 1: In Carl Barks' Donald Duck story Tight-Wire Walkers the city ofDuckburg is first mentioned.
October 5: The liberation of Belgium a year earlier lifts the Nazi ban on the Belgian comics magazine Spirou from a year earlier. The magazine now reappears in stores. Its main series Spirou et Fantasio is naturally continued and Spirou's sidekick Fantasio is now firmly established as a main cast member.
October 16: Buford Tune takes over Jim McMenamy's family comic Dotty Dripple and will continue it for the next forty years.
The first issue of the Belgian comics magazine Franc Jeu is published.
November
November 16:
* The first issue of the Argentine comics magazine Rico Tipo is published.
* Russian-Serbian comics artist Ivan Šenšin is executed at age 47 by a Communist firing squad on the incorrect suspicion of being a Nazi collaborator.
November 18: Bulgarian cartoonist Rayko Aleksiev dies at age 51, after being brutally interrogated by officers of the newly established Communist regime.
November 20: Marten Toonder cancels Tom Poes halfway a story in the newspaper De Telegraaf, after being informed that the new chief editor will be a member of the Dutch SS. He even asks a doctor to declare him "too manic depressive to continue working." The series will not be continued until 10 March 1947.
All-Winners Comics #14 - Timely Comics
Human Torch Comics #17 - Timely Comics
Sub-Mariner Comics #15 - Timely Comics
December
December 24: Marc Sleen publishes his first adventure comic De Avonturen van Neus and a gag comic named Piet Fluwijn. The latter will prove to be more durable when a year later the new character Bolleke is introduced and the series will be renamed Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke.
December 30: Marjorie Henderson Buell's newspaper comic Little Lulu comes to a close.
Captain America Comics #43 - Timely Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics #60 - Timely Comics
Young Allies Comics #14 - Timely Comics
Winter
Blackhawk #9, taking over the numbering of Uncle Sam Quarterly — first issue of Blackhawk's own title
Wonder Woman, volume 1, issue #11. This also marks the debut of recurring villain Hypnota.
Deaths
January
January 9: Döes, Swiss illustrator and comics artist, passes away at age 84 or 85.
January 20: Arthur LeMay, Canadian caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, passes away at age 43 or 44.
Specific date unknown: Bernie Klein, American comics artist, dies in battle at age 23.
February
February 4: Will B. Johnstone, American lyricist, screenwriter and comics artist, dies at age 62.
February 27: Henri Cassiers, Belgian illustrator, poster artist and comics artist, passes away at age 85.
