Timely Comics Miss America Comics #1 - Timely Comics U.S.A. Comics (1941 series) #14 - Timely Comics The first issue of the Belgian comics magazine Franc Jeu is published. November November 16: The first issue of the Argentine comics magazine Rico Tipo is published. Russian-Serbian comics artist Ivan Šenšin is executed at age 47 by a Communist firing squad on the incorrect suspicion of being a Nazi collaborator. November 18: Bulgarian cartoonist Rayko Aleksiev dies at age 51, after being brutally interrogated by officers of the newly established Communist regime. November 20: Marten Toonder cancels Tom Poes halfway a story in the newspaper De Telegraaf, after being informed that the new chief editor will be a member of the Dutch SS. He even asks a doctor to declare him "too manic depressive to continue working." The series will not be continued until 10 March 1947. All-Winners Comics (1941 series) #14 - Timely Comics Human Torch Comics (1940 series) #17 - Timely Comics Sub-Mariner Comics (1941 series) #15 - Timely Comics December December 24: Marc Sleen publishes his first adventure comic De Avonturen van Neus and a gag comic named Piet Fluwijn. The latter will prove to be more durable when a year later the new character Bolleke is introduced and the series will be renamed Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke. December 30: Marjorie Henderson Buell's newspaper comic Little Lulu comes to a close. Captain America Comics (1941 series) #43 - Timely Comics Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #60 - Timely Comics Young Allies Comics (1941 series) #14 - Timely Comics Winter Blackhawk #9, taking over the numbering of Uncle Sam Quarterly — first issue of Blackhawk's own title (Quality Comics) Wonder Woman, volume 1, issue #11 (DC Comics). This also marks the debut of recurring villain Hypnota. Births January January 6: Claude Lacroix, aka Tartemption, Alias, French comics artist and illustrator (Farfelune, Yann Le Migrateur, Fariboles Sidérales, Cyann), (d. 2021). January 24: Robin Wood, Paraguayan-Argentine comics writer (Nippur de Lagash, Dago, Gilgamesh el inmortal,...), (d. 2021). Deaths January January 2: Orville Peter Williams, A.K.A. O.P. Williams, American comic artist (Gasoline Gus), dies at age 67. January 9: Döes, Swiss illustrator and comics artist, passes away at age 84 or 85. January 20: Arthur LeMay, Canadian caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist (continued Les Aventures de Timothée), passes away at age 43 or 44. Specific date unknown: Bernie Klein, American comics artist (worked