1941 in comics

Notable events of 1941 in comics.

Events and publications

Stan Lee becomes editor-in-chief at Timely Comics.
Adventures of Captain Marvel, a twelve-chapter film serial adapted from the popular Captain Marvel comic book character for Republic Pictures, debuts. It was the first film adaptation of a comic book superhero.^[1]

September 16: Marten Toonder's Tom Poes story De Drakenburcht is first published. Halfway the story Olivier B. Bommel's castle Bommelstein and his car, De Oude Schicht, make their debut.
September 23: The Belgian children's comics magazine Le Soir-Jeunesse, a supplement of the Nazi-controlled newspaper Le Soir, disappears after hardly a year of publication. The Adventures of Tintin, which was published in its pages since 1940, moves within Le Soir itself.^[2]
Action Comics (1938 series) #40 - National Allied Publications
Adventure Comics (1938 series) #66 - National Allied Publications
All-American Comics (1939 series) #30 - National Allied Publications
All-Flash Comics (1941 series) #2 - National Allied Publications
All-Star Comics (1940 series) #6 - National Allied Publications
All-Winners Comics (1941 series) #2 - Timely Comics
Batman (1940 series) #6 - National Allied Publications
Big 3 (1940 series) #5 - Fox Feature Syndicate
Bulletman (1941 series) #2 - Fawcett Comics
Captain America Comics (1941 series) #6 - Timely Comics
Captain Fearless Comics (1941 series) #2 - Helnit Publishing, Final Issue
Captain Marvel Adventures (1941 series) #3 - Fawcett Comics
Cat-Man Comics (1941 series) #4 - Helnit Publishing
Crack Comics (1940 series) #16 - Quality Comics
Detective Comics (1937 series) #55 - National Allied Publications
Doll Man (1941 series) #1 - Quality Comics
Fantastic Comics (1939 series) #22 - Fox Feature Syndicate
Flash Comics (1940 series) #21 - National Allied Publications
Green Lantern (comic book) (1941 series) #1 - National Allied Publications. This marks the debut of Bill Finger and Martin Nodell's Green Lantern.
Hit Comics (1940 series) #15 - Quality Comics
Human Torch Comics (1940 series) #5 - Timely Comics - This is #5b. Human Torch has its own numbering now.
Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #23 - Timely Comics
Master Comics (1940 series) #18 - Fawcett Comics
Military Comics (1941 series) #2 - Quality Comics
Minute-Man (1941 series) #1 - Fawcett Comics
More Fun Comics (1936 series) #71 - National Allied Publications
Mystery Men Comics (1939 series) #26 - Fox Feature Syndicate
Police Comics (1941 series) #2 - Quality Comics
Samson (1940 series) #6 - Fox Feature Syndicate, Final Issue
Smash Comics (1939 series) #26 - Quality Comics
Spy Smasher (1941 series) #1 - Fawcett Comics
Sub-Mariner Comics (1941 series) #3 - Timely Comics
Target Comics (1941 series) #7 - Novelty Press
The Eagle (1941 series) #2 - Fox Feature Syndicate
Uncle Sam Quarterly (1941 series) #1 - Quality Comics
Weird Comics (1940 series) #18 - Fox Feature Syndicate
Whiz Comics (1940 series) #21 - Fawcett Comics
Wonderworld Comics #29 - Fox Feature Syndicate
World's Finest Comics (1941 series) #3 - National Allied Publications
Wow Comics (1940 series) #3 - Fawcett Comics

October 18: Marten Toonder's Tom Poes story Het Verdwijneiland is first published. Halfway the story the characters Wal Rus and professor Joachim Sickbock make their debut.
October 23: On Nazi orders two Dutch comics magazines, namely De Humorist and Sjors, are banned from publication. Sjors will nevertheless still be published but within the pages of the magazine Panorama until it finally vanishes in March 1942 and won't return until after the war in June 1947.^[9]
Action Comics (1938 series) #41 - National Allied Publications
Adventure Comics (1938 series) #67 - National Allied Publications
All-American Comics (1939 series) #31 - National Allied Publications
Blue Beetle (1939 series) #9 - Fox Feature Syndicate
Captain America Comics (1941 series) #7 - Timely Comics
Captain Marvel Adventures (1941 series) #4 - Fawcett Comics
Crack Comics (1940 series) #17 - Quality Comics
Detective Comics (1937 series) #56 - National Allied Publications
Flash Comics (1940 series) #22 - National Allied Publications
Green Mask (1940 series) #7 - Fox Feature Syndicate
Hit Comics (1940 series) #16 - Quality Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #24 - Timely Comics
Master Comics (1940 series) #19 - Fawcett Comics
Military Comics (1941 series) #3 - Quality Comics
More Fun Comics (1936 series) #72 - National Allied Publications
Mystery Men Comics (1939 series) #27 - Fox Feature Syndicate
Mystic Comics (1940 series) #6 - Timely Comics
Police Comics (1941 series) #3 - Quality Comics
Smash Comics (1939 series) #27 - Quality Comics
Star Spangled Comics (1941 series) #1 - National Allied Publications
Superman (1939 series) #12 - National Allied Publications
Target Comics (1941 series) #8 - Novelty Press
The Flame (1940 series) #7 - Fox Feature Syndicate
Whiz Comics (1940 series) #22 - Fawcett Comics
Whiz Comics (1940 series) #23 - Fawcett Comics
Wonderworld Comics #30 - Fox Feature Syndicate

In Norway, Jostein Øvrelid and Hallvard Sandnes start the long-running science fiction series Ingeniør Knut Berg på eventyr. It will run until 1960.^[11]
Mutt and Jeff (1938 series) #3 - National Allied Publications.
Roberto Sgrilli's Formichino ends.^[12]

Births

April 24: Gomaa Frahat, Egyptian political cartoonist, (d. 2021).^[13]

June 2: Charlie Watts, British rock drummer (The Rolling Stones) (made comic strips for his band's U.S. tour program and the back sleeve of their album Between the Buttons), (d. 2021).^[14]
June 15: Neal Adams, American comic book artist (Batman, Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, Green Lantern), (d. 2022).^[15]

July 13: Tom Palmer, American comic artist and inker (Marvel Comics), (d. 2022).^[16]
July 25: S. Clay Wilson, American underground comix artist (The Checkered Demon, Captain Pissgums and His Pervert Pirates), (d. 2021).^[17]

September 26: Tom Veitch, American comic book writer (The Light and Darkness War, Animal Man, Star Wars), (d. 2022).^[18]

October 20: Leopold Lippens, Belgian politician (namesake of the Leopold Lippens Prize at the Comics Festival of Knokke-Heist^[19]), (d. 2021).^[20]

November 25: Philippe Honoré, French cartoonist (Charlie Hebdo), (d. 2015)^[21]

Deaths

January 4: George Roller, British illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 84.^[22]
Specific date in January unknown: Jaime Tomás, Spanish comics artist, dies at age 31 or 32.^[23]

February 13: J.B. Lowitz, American comics artist (The Captain Kiddis Kids, Swifty and his Wonderful Dream), dies at age 57.^[24]

August 13: John Stuart Blackton, British animator and film director (The Enchanted Drawing, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces), dies at age 66.
August 19: Caumery, French comics writer (Bécassine), dies at age 64.

October 8: Win Smith, Canadian-American animator and comics artist (Penguin Pete, Looney Luke, continued Mickey Mouse, worked on Looney Tunes comics), dies at age 53.^[25]
October 14: Leoncio Martínez, aka Leo, Venezuelan journalist, playwright, illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist, dies at age 52.^[26]
October 22: Louis Markous, Ludwig Markous and/or Louis Marcoussis, French illustrator, painter and comics artist, dies at age 63.^[27]

November 26: Patrick Kroon, Dutch caricaturist, painter, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 69.^[28]

December 4: Axel Bäckman, Swedish comics artist (Påhittiga Johansson, Rulle Rustibus), dies at age 73.^[29]
December 21: Arthur Racey, Canadian illustrator, caricaturist, advertising and comics artist (An Englishman in Canada), dies at age 70 or 71.^[30]
December 31: Sol Hess, American comics writer (The Nebbs), dies at age 59.^[31]

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1941 in comics

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Events and publications

Births

Deaths

First issues by title

Initial appearances by character name

References

1941 in comics

Events and publications

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February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Specific date unknown

Births

April

June

July

September

October

November

Deaths

January

February

August

October

November

December

First issues by title

Initial appearances by character name

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