January 11: After two years of publication Charles M. Schulz' It's Only a Game comes to an end.
January 31: Philip Mendoza's The Adventures of Katie Country Mouse debuts. It will run until 1964.
Mr. District Attorney, with issue #67, cancelled by DC.
Paperiade script by Guido Martina, drawings by Luciano Bottaro, on Topolino; in the year, Martina carries out Disney versions of other classics.
March
March 10: In the Italian magazine Topolino the story Mickey Mouse in the Delta Dimension, by Romano Scarpa is prepublished, which marks the debut of Atomo Bleep-Bleep and the return of Doctor Einmug, who hadn't been featured in 20 years.
March 15: After 38 years of publication Russ Westover's Tillie the Toiler is discontinued.
March 28: The final episode of Phiny Dick, Ton Beek, Eiso Toonder and Andries Brandt's Birre Beer is published.
March: Flash Comics, a series which ended in 1949 is rebooted and marks the debut of The Flash by John Broome and Carmine Infantino.
Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge story The Flying Dutchman is first published.
In Italy, Renzo Barbieri debuts as writer and editor with the western series Timbergek.
May
May 24: After two and a half years Frank Giacoia's Johnny Reb and Billy Yank comes to an end.
May 30: John Dixon's Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors makes its debut.
Hopalong Cassidy, with issue #135, cancelled by DC.
Carl Barks's Donald Duck story The Beachcombers' Picnic is published in Walt Disney’s comics and stories.
June
June 6: Leo Baxendale's The Three Bears makes its debut in The Beano.
June 21: The first issue of the Belgian children's magazine Zonnekind, a sister publication of Zonneland, is published. In the first issue Nonkel Fons and Gray Croucher's Rikske en Fikske makes its debut.
July
July 2: In Spirou the first chapter of Les Schtroumpfs noirs by Peyo is prepublished, which is the first long narrative starring the Smurfs after they debuted as side characters in Johan and Peewit a year earlier.
July 30: In Spirou the first chapter of the Lucky Luke story En remontant le Mississippi, script by Goscinny, drawn by Morris is prepublished.
August
August 10: In the Italian magazine Topolino, first chapter of Paperino e l’isola del Tesoro by Luciano Bottaro, inaugurating the cycle of the “pirate ducks” narratives, and The man from Oola-Oola, by Romano Scarpa, are published.
September
September 14: The new The Adventures of Nero story De Zoon van Nero starts in Het Volk, which marks the birth of Nero's son Adhemar.
September 24:The final issue of the Belgian Disney comics magazineMickey Magazine is published.
October 10: After 27 years of publication Norman Pett's Jane comes to an end.
October 17: After 23 years of continuous publication Bill Connor and Steve Dowling's Belinda comes to an end.
October 17: The British comics magazine The Comet ceases to exist and merges into the new magazine Tiger.
October 17: After 42 years of publication Sidney Smith's The Gumps comes to an end.
October 19: Dennis Collins' The Perishers makes its debut.
October 24: The British boys' story paper The Hotspur is transformed into a comics magazine: The New Hotspur. It will run until 24 January 1981.
October 29: The first issue of the French comics magazine Pilote is published, which will become one of the best-selling magazines ever in only a few years. In its first issue Astérix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, Tanguy et Laverdure by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo and Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon's Redbeard make their debut.
November
November 5: Willy Vandersteen's De Rode Ridder, based on the novels by Leopold Vermeiren, makes its debut.
November 10: In the Italian magazine TopolinoThe Sacred Spring of Seasons, by Romano Scarpa is prepublished.
December
December 10: In the 1130th issue of the Belgian magazine Spirou a small supplement Smurfscomic book is added named Le Voleur de Schtroumpfs, in which Gargamel and Azrael make their debut.
December 16: Raymond Macherot's Clifton makes its debut.
December 24: Jean Roba and Maurice Rosy's Boule et Bill makes its debut in Spirou.
Carl Barks' Donald Duck story The Wax Museum is prepublished in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.
Specific date unknown
Dick Millington's Mighty Moth makes its debut in TV Comic, where it will run until 1984.
In the newspaper Folha da Manha Mauricio de Sousa's comic stripDudu makes its debut, which later, under the name Monica’s gang, will become the most popular Brazilian comic.
Deaths
January
January 30: Hans Füsser, German caricaturist and comics artist, dies at age 60.
March
March 12: F. Verdugo, Spanish journalist and comics artist, passes away at age 84.
April
April 15: Harry B. Martin, American comics artist, dies from cerebral thrombosis at age 85.
May
May 1: Reginald Arkell, British novelist, playwright and comics writer, dies at age 76.
