June 11: Mike Roy's Akwas makes its debut. It will run until 28 March 1965.
June 20: The first issue of the British comics magazine Wham! is published and will run until 13 January 1968. In the first issue Leo Baxendale's Eagle-Eye, Junior Spy makes its debut.
June 20: first Sniffy daily strip, by George Fett (in 1973,the strip is renamed Norbert).[10]
In Italy, Fantax (later renamed Fantasm), created by Furio Arrasich, makes his debut; it's the first of the several fumetti neri trying to emulate the Diabolik’s success.[12]
November 11: Pat Tourret and Jenny Butterworth's Tiffany Jones makes its debut.[24]
November 12 : in Chouchou, L’Étoile endormie, first episode of the French sci-fi saga Les Naufragés du Temps, by Jean Claude Forest and Jean Gilon.[25]
December 1: The first issue of the Italian comics magazine Satanik is published and will run until 1974. In its first issue Max Bunker and Roberto Raviola (Magnus)'s Satanik makes its debut.
January 17: Percy Cocking, British comics artist (continued Weary Wilie and Tired Tim), dies at age 82.[30]
Specific date unknown: Glen Cravath, American comics artist and illustrator (Frank Buck), dies at age 66.[31]
February
February 9: Joe Farren, American comics artist (Hank and Knobs, Terry and Tacks), dies at age 79. [32]
February 10: Charlie Pease, British comics artist (Buck an' Nero, Mighty Monk, Plum and Duff, Dickie Duffer, Sally Sunshine and Her Shadow, Artie the Autograph Hunter, continued Billy Bunter and Casey Court), dies at age 59.[33]
February 14: Frans Brouwer, Dutch illustrator and comic artist (Krabbels and Klodders), dies at age 57. [34]
September 17: Jean Ray, aka John Flanders, Belgian novelist and comics writer (wrote for Buth's Thomas Pips[48] and text stories by Antoon Herckenrath,[49] Gray Croucher,[50] Rik Clément[51]), dies at age 77.
November
November 5: Mabel Lucie Attwell, British illustrator and comics artist (Wot A Life), dies at age 85.[52]
July 24:[62] Tri-State Con[66][67] a.k.a. "New York Comicon" (Workman's Circle Building,[63] New York City) — one-day convention organized by 16-year-old Bernie Bubnis[68] and fellow enthusiast Ron Fradkin,[63] c. 100 attendees;[69] official guests include Steve Ditko,[62]Flo Steinberg,[68] and Tom Gill.[63][69] Considered to be the first true comics convention.[69]
^McAvennie, Michael (2010). "1960s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 110. ISBN978-0-7566-6742-9. The Dark Knight received a much-needed facelift from new Batman editor Julius Schwartz, writer John Broome, and artist Carmine Infantino. With sales at an all-time low and threatening the cancellation of one of DC's flagship titles, their overhaul was a lifesaving success for DC and its beloved Batman.
^McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 111: "They were never given a team name when scribe Bob Haney and artist Bruno Premiani spun them against Mister Twister. However, this first team-up of Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad came to be classically regarded as the inaugural story of the Teen Titans."
^"Historian Collects Comics: They Are Works of Art," Detroit News (1965).
^Schelly, Bill. "1966: The Year Of THREE* New York Comicons!," Alter-Ego #53 (Oct. 2005).
^Schelly, Bill. Founders of Comic Fandom: Profiles of 90 Publishers, Dealers, Collectors, Writers, Artists and Other Luminaries of the 1950s and 1960s (McFarland, 2010), p. 131.
