1960 in comics

Events and publications

January

• January 16 The first issue of the British girls' comics magazine Judy is published. It will run until 1991.
• January 30: The first issue of the British girls' comics magazine Princess is published. It will run until 16 September 1967 when it merges with Tina to become Princess Tina.

  February

• February 4: In René Goscinny and Morris' Lucky Luke story Sur la piste des Dalton the dog Rantanplan makes its debut.
• February 29: Bil Keane's The Family Circus makes its debut.

  March

• March 24: The fourth Le Vieux Nick story is prepublished in Spirou. Halfway the story Barbe-Noire makes his debut.
• March: Gardner Fox introduces the Justice League in the 28th issue of The Brave and the Bold.

  April

• April 20: The British comics magazine Express Weekly publishes its final issue and changes its name to TV Express Weekly.

  May

• May 28: The first issue of the British comics magazine Buster is published. In its first issue Bill Titcombe's Buster Capp makes its debut, a spin-off of Reg Smythe's Andy Capp. The magazine will run until 4 January 2000.
• May 29: The final episode of Warren Tufts' Lance is published.

  July

• In the second issue of John Broome and Gil Kane's Green Lantern the Guardians of the Universe make their debut.

  August

• August 18: Willy Vandersteen launches his spin-off Jerom.
• August 25: The final issue of the French girls' comics magazine La Semaine de Suzette is published.
• Rawhide Kid, with issue #17, revived by Marvel.
• Harvey Kurtzman publishes his satirical magazine Help!, which will run for five years.

  September

• September 1: Joe Simon publishes the first issue of the American satirical comics magazine Sick, which will run until 1980.
• The first issue of the French satirical magazine Hara-Kiri is published, which will offer room for countless subversive French and foreign cartoonists. It will be banned three times during its decade run. In 1970 it changes its name to Charlie Hebdo.
• September 15: Andries Brandt's Holle Pinkel makes its debut. It will run until June 11, 1963.
• Warren Satler revives Crockett Johnson's Barnaby for two years, until 14 April 1962.

  November

• November 7: The first episode of Lee Holley's comic strip Ponytail is published. It will run until 16 October 1988.
• November 12: David Law's Corporal Clott makes its debut in The Dandy.
• November 24: in Le journal de Tintin, first chapter of Le 13 est au départ, by Jean Graton; Michel Vaillant meets for the first time his future wife and his greatest rival.

  December

• December 15: Peyo's Benoît Brisefer makes its debut.
• Frank Dickens publishes his comic strip Oddbod in The Sunday Times, which already features the character after whom the series will be retitled the next year: Bristow. It will become one of the longest-running comics series drawn by one and the same single author.
• Cancellation of Al Fagaly's Super Duck.

  Deaths

January

• January 8: Jan Fischer, Czech comics artist, dies at age 52.
• January 26: Riley Thomson, American animator and comics artist, dies at age 47.

  February

• February 7: Jim McArdle, American comics artist, dies at age 60.
• February 16: Norman Pett, British comics and erotic artist, dies at age 69.

  March

• March 6: Gene Ahern, American comics artist, dies at age 64 from a heart attack.

  May

• May 27: James Montgomery Flagg, American painter, illustrator and comics artist, dies at the age of 82.

  August

• August 15: Jefferson Machamer, American actor, screenwriter and comics artist, dies at age 59.
• August 31: Edgar Martin, sometimes nicknamed Abe Martin, American comics artist, dies at age 62.
• Specific date unknown: Jorge, Spanish comics artist, dies at age 38.

  September

• September 5: Allan Morley, British comics artist, dies at age 75.

  October

• October 10: Inez Townsend, British-American comics artist, illustrator and singer-songwriter, dies at age 82.

  December

• December 9: Gunila Stierngranat, Swedish comics artist, passes away at age 58.

  Specific date unknown

• Carlos Clemen, Argentine comics artist, passes away.

  First issues by title

• Buster
• Green Lantern vol. 2
• Help!
• Justice League of America
• Richie Rich
• Wendy the Good Little Witch

  Initial appearances by character name

DC Comics

• Amazo, in The Brave and the Bold #30
• Aqualad, in Adventure Comics #269
• Arrowette in World's Finest Comics #113
• Atomic Knight, in Strange Adventures #117
• Captain Boomerang, in Flash #117
• Colossal Boy, in Action Comics #267
• Snapper Carr, in The Brave and the Bold #28
• Cave Carson in The Brave and the Bold #31
• Clock King, in World's Finest Comics #111
• Despero, in Justice League of America #1
• Danny the Dummy, in Batman #134
• Elongated Man, in Flash #112
• Guardians of the Universe, in Green Lantern vol., 2 #1
• Professor Ivo, in The Brave and the Bold #30
• Justice League of America, in The Brave and the Bold #28
• Thomas Kalmaku, in Green Lantern vol. 2, #2
• Kite Man, in Batman #133
• Kryptonite Man, in Superboy #83
• Lyla Lerrol, in Superman #141
• Multi-Man, in Challengers of the Unknown #14
• Puppet Master, in Green Lantern vol. 2, # 1
• Reep Daggle, in Action Comics #267
• Sea Devils, in Showcase #27
• Starro, in The Brave and the Bold #28
• Streaky the Supercat, in Action Comics #261
• The War That Time Forgot, in Star Spangled War Stories #90
• Trickster, in Flash #113
• Zebra-Man, in Detective Comics'' #275

  Marvel Comics

• Abominable Snowman, in Tales to Astonish #13
• Chondu the Mystic, in Tales of Suspense #9
• Dragoom, in Strange Tales #76
• Gorgilla, in Tales To Astonish #12
• Master Khan, in Strange Tales #77
• Molten Man-Thing, in Tales of Suspense #7
• Rawhide Kid, in Rawhide Kid #1
• Xemnu, in Journey into Mystery #62

  Other publishers

• Benoît Brisefer, in Spirou magazine #1183
• Captain Atom, in Space Adventures #33
• Corporal Clott, in The Dandy #990

  Newspaper strips

• Jimmy Five, in Monica's Gang
• Willie Lumpkin, in syndicated strip created by Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo
• Maggy, in Monica's Gang