with issue #10, cancelled by Timely Comics. (The title would be revived four years later by Marvel, continuing the numbering.) Venus (1948 series) #8 - Timely Comics December December 3: First publication of Pecos Bill by Guido Martina and Raffaele Paparella. December 15: The final issue of the Dutch comics magazine Doe Mee is published. Cowboy Romances (1939 series) #2 - Timely Comics True Western (1939 series) #1 - Timely Comics Specific date unknown The first episode of Roland Davies' Sparks and Flash is published. Lancelot Hogben publishes the book From Cave Painting to Comic Strip. A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication. Reverend David S. Piper and Joseph Wirt Tillotson launch the first episode of Our Bible in Pictures. Births June June 11: Steve Moore, British comics writer (Axel Pressbutton, Future Shocks, Tom Strong's Terrific Tales), (d. 2014). Deaths February February 6: Eugène Vavasseur, French illustrator, poster artist and comic artist, passes away at age 85. February 15: Charles L. Bartholomew, aka Bart, American comics artist (Cousin Bill, George and his Conscience, Bud Smith, the Boy Who Does Stunts, Alexander the Cat, Mama's Girl-Daddy's Boy), dies at age 80. March March 6: Storm P., Danish comics artist, animator, illustrator, painter and comedian (Peter og Ping), passes away at the age of 66. March 16: Stanley E. Armstrong, American comics artist (continued Slim Jim And The Force), passes away at age 85. March 21: Jo Valle, French comics writer (L'Espiègle Lili), dies at age 83. April 24 April: Reg Carter, British comics artist (Big Eggo) dies at the age of 62. May May 12: Neysa McMein, American illustrator, painter and comics artist (Deathless Deer), dies at age 60. May 27: Robert L. Ripley, American comics artist, cartoonist, entrepreneur and anthropologist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!), dies at the age of 58 from a heart attack. June 10 June: John T. McCutcheon, American political cartoonist and occasional comics artist (Bird Center), dies at age 79. July July 13: Walt Kuhn, American painter, illustrator and comics artist (Whisk), dies at age 71. October October 8: Monte Barrett, American comics writer (Jane Arden), dies at age 52. November November 13: Bern L. Vinger, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (Met Toto Op Reis), dies at age 77. November 30: Lester J. Ambrose, American comics artist (Simp Simpson), dies at age 70. December December 3: Frank Miller, American comics artist (Barney Baxter), dies from a heart attack