1967 in comics

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Notable events of 1967 in comics.

Events and publications

Year overall

  • In The Daily Orange, the Syracuse University students' newspaper, the initial story of Vaugh Bode’s Cheech Wizard, Race to the Moon, appears.
  • In Milan, Renzo Barbieri and Giorgio Cavedon, after the bankruptcy of their Editrice 66, set up another publishing house specialized in erotic comics, ErreGi. The new label immediately gets a great public success.[1]
  • On Almanacco dei comics, the catalog of the Lucca International Comics Fair, the first Italian graphic novel, La rivolta dei racchi (The riot of the ugly people) by Guido Buzzelli, is published.[2]
  • La Vilaine Lulu by Yves-Saint Laurent (Tchou). The work, an erotic graphic novel created by the fashion designer ten years earlier, becomes controversial for its sadistic and pedophilic content.[3]

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

  • September 11: The first episode of Gordon Bess' Redeye is published.[29]
  • September 23: The British comics magazines Princess and Tina merge into Princess Tina. It will exist in this form until 1973.
  • September 26: In
    Morris
    starts serialisation.

October

November

December

Specific date unknown

Births

February

  • February 20: Kurt Cobain, American rock singer and guitarist (made some comics in his diaries, which were posthumously released), (d. 1994).[48]

August

Deaths

January

  • January 21: Homer Fleming, American cartoonist and comics artist (Craig Kennedy), dies at age 84.[51]

March

April

  • April 18: Pierre Mouchot, A.K.A. Chott, French comics publisher and comics artist (Éditions Piere Mouchot, Société d'Éditions Rhodaniennes), dies at age 54.[54]
  • April 28: Jack Romer, American comics artist (TV Titters, Bobo & Binky), dies at age 69.[55]

May

June

July

August

  • August 26:
    Koziolek Matolek, Malpka Fiki Miki), dies at age 81.[63]

September

October

December

Specific date unknown

Exhibitions

Conventions

Awards

Alley Awards

Best Comic Magazine Section

Best Professional Work

Popularity Poll

Newspaper Strip Section

Fan Activity Section

  • Best All-Article Fanzine - (tie) Batmania and Gosh Wow
  • Best All-Strip Fanzine -
    Star-Studded Comics
  • Best All-Fiction Fanzine - Stories of Suspense
  • Best Article/Strip Fanzine - Fantasy Illustrated
  • Best Fiction/Strip Fanzine -
    Star-Studded Comics
  • Best Article/Fiction Fanzine - (tie) Gosh Wow and Huh!
  • Best Fannish One-Shot - Fandom Annual
  • Best Article on Comic Book Material - "Blue Bolt and Gang" (Gosh Wow #1)
  • Best Article on Comic Strip Material - "Gully Foyle" (Star-Studded Comics #11)
  • Best Regular Fan Column - "What's News", by Dave Kaler
  • Best Fan Fiction - "Nightwalker", by Larry Brody (Gosh Wow #1)
  • Best Fan Comic Strip - "Xal-Kor", by Richard "Grass" Green
  • Best Fan Artist - George Metzger
  • Best Comic Strip Writer - Larry Herndon
  • Best Fan Project - 1967 South-Western Con
  • Best Newsletter -
    On the Drawing Board
    , by Bob Schoenfeld

First issues by title

Marvel Comics

America's Best TV Comics
Release: mid-year. Writer: Stan Lee. Artists: Jack Kirby, Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers, John Romita Sr.

Ghost Rider

Release: February. Writers: Gary Friedrich and Roy Thomas. Artists: Dick Ayers and Vince Colletta.

Not Brand Echh

Release: August. Editor: Stan Lee.

Charlton Comics

Blue Beetle (vol. 5)

Release: June by Charlton Comics. Writer/Artist: Steve Ditko.

The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves

Release: May by Charlton Comics. Editor: Dick Giordano.

Peacemaker

Release: March by Charlton Comics. Writer: Joe Gill. Artist: Pat Boyette.

Timmy the Timid Ghost vol. 2

Release: October by Charlton Comics. Editor: Pat Masulli.

Other publishers

Valérian and Laureline, in Pilote magazine

Release: November by Dargaud. Writer: Pierre Christin. Artist: Jean-Claude Mézières.

Wonder Wart-Hog

Release:
Millar Publishing Company. Writer: Gilbert Shelton and Tony Bell. Artist: Gilbert Shelton
.

Initial appearances by character name

Charlton Comics

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Comic strips

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