Real Screen Funnies debuts with a Spring 1945 cover date. The title changes to Real Screen Comics with the second issue and features The Fox and the Crow and other Columbia-licensed funny animal characters. -
Wim Meuldijk creates his newspaper comic Ketelbinkie, which will become so popular that it inspires its own magazine.
Italian comics know a noticeable relaunch after the end of the war and of the fascist censure, despite the strong rivalry of the American strips, previously forbidden by the regime. Belgian comics and Franco-Belgian comics also become an industry on their own.
January
January 8: The first episode of Moira Bertram's Jo is published.
The first issue of the Belgian satirical comics and cartoons magazine Pan is published. It will run until April 2017.
March 11: The Flemish comics magazine Ons Volkske, whose publication was interrupted at the outbreak of World War II reappears on the market.
March 25: Debut of Bruce Gentry by.
March 30: Willy Vandersteen publishes Rikki en Wiske in De Nieuwe Standaard. It's the first Suske en Wiske story and marks the debut of the characters Wiske, Schanulleke and Tante Sidonia, even though his editor renamed the character Suske into Rikki, without his knowledge or approval. After one story Vandersteen will remove Rikki from the series and replace him with the remodelled character Suske.
The Long Race to Pumpkinburg, by Carl Barks, on Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.
April
All-Winners Comics #15 - Timely Comics
Captain America Comics #46 - Timely Comics
Human Torch Comics #18 - Timely Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics #63 - Timely Comics
Sub-Mariner Comics #16 - Timely Comics
U.S.A. Comics #15 - Timely Comics
May
May 11: In Chester Gould's Dick TracyBreathless Mahoney makes her debut.
May 17: The Flemish newspaper De Zondagsvriend launches a children's supplement magazine, De Kleine Zondagsvriend, which will offer room for several comics series. It will run until 18 December 1963.
The Icebox Robber, by Carl Barks in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.
The Riddle of the Red Hat, in Four Color comics, which is the only Mickey Mouse story drawn by Carl Barks.
The first issue of the Belgian comics magazine Wrill is published. It will run until May 1949.
Captain America Comics #48 - Timely Comics
Daring Comics #11 - Timely Comics
Human Torch Comics #19 - Timely Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics #65 - Timely Comics
U.S.A. Comics #16 - Timely Comics
August
August 5: Debut of the Giles family by Carl Giles in The Daily Express and Sunday Express.
Captain America Comics #49 - Timely Comics
The final issue of the Belgian comics magazine Franc Jeu is published.
September
Marvel Mystery Comics #66 - Timely Comics
Sub-Mariner Comics #17 - Timely Comics
Young Allies Comics #17 - Timely Comics
October
October 7: In Il Vittorioso the first chapter of Pippo in montagna by Benito Jacovitti makes its debut. This is the first story starring the master criminal Zagar, antagonist of Cip.
October 15: The first issue of the Dutch comics magazine Stripfilm is published. It also offers information about animation techniques, provided by the animation studio Stripfilm. The magazine will last until 23 November.
October 22: The first episode of Phiny Dick's Olle Kapoen is published. Coen van Hunnik provides artwork but is later replaced by Richard Klokkers. The series will run until 15 November 1955.
October 26: In the Italian Fulmine giornale the first chapter of La legione del mistero by Andrea Lavezzolo and Carlo Cossio is published, which marks the debut of detective Dick Fulmine. Although he was previously at the service of Fascist propaganda he is now recycled as a democratic hero and cuts down a neo-Nazi gang, led by a revived Adolf Hitler.
Belgian comics publisher Fernand Cheneval founds the first issue of the comics magazine Heroïc Albums. It will run until December 1956.
On the French magazine Clic-Clac Images, Uderzo debuts as cartoonist with Flamberge gentilhomme gascon.
November 12: Ray Gotto's Ozark Ike makes its debut.
All-Winners Comics #17 - Timely Comics
Human Torch Comics #21 - Timely Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics #67 - Timely Comics
Sub-Mariner Comics #18 - Timely Comics
December
December 11: Dutch comics artists Pieter Kuhn and Evert Werkman's first publish Kapitein Rob in Het Parool.
December 19: The story Op Het Eiland Amoras starts in De Nieuwe Standaard. This marks the first official Suske en Wiske story by Willy Vandersteen. New character Suske is already shown in the announcement strips, but will only make his official debut halfway the story when Wiske meets him at the Isle of Amoras. At the start of the story Professor Barabas also makes his debut.
December 22: Willy Vandersteen's family gag comic De Familie Snoek makes its debut.
December 27: Marc Sleen's series Piet Fluwijn introduces a new character, namely Fluwijn's son, Bolleke. From that moment on the series is renamed: Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke.
December 27: Marten Toonder's Kappie makes its debut. It will run in the papers until 12 July 1972.
