Cauvin and Louis Salvérius's comic strip Les Tuniques Bleues makes its debut in Spirou. August 31: In David Law's Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Dennis' dog Gnasher makes his debut. The Legion Academy introduced in Adventure Comics #371 (August ) Robert Crumb's Angelfood McSpade and S. Clay Wilson's The Checkered Demon makes their debut in Zap Comix #2. Debut of Dave Wood and Jack Sparling's The Mad Mod Witch in The Unexpected. Joe Orlando, Carmine Infantino, Sheldon Mayer and Sergio Aragonés's Bat Lash makes its debut. Fall Gary Arlington's San Francisco Comic Book Company debuts as a retailer and a publisher, putting out Rory Hayes' Bogeyman Comics #1 September September 7: The final issue of the British comics magazine Pow! is published and merges with Smash!. September 9: Bunny Hoest and John Reiner's The Lockhorns makes its debut. September 30: B.D. makes his debut in Garry Trudeau's Bull Tales and later become part of Doonesbury. Doom Patrol, with issue #121 (September /October cover date) suspends publication. (DC Comics) Lo spettro del passato (The ghost from the past), by Guido Nolitta, Franco Donatelli and Gallieno Ferri; the whaler Captain Fishleg, recurring character in the Zagor’s adventures, makes his first appearance. October October 1: In Pilote, namely their pocket edition Super Pocket Pilote, the first episode of the Blueberry series Le Secret de Blueberry, by Jean Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud, inaugurates the saga The Blueberry’s youth (or The traitor of the South). October 6: The final episode of Boots and Her Buddies is published. October 11: The Dutch comics appreciation society Het Stripschap is founded. October 31 : In the French comic magazine Pilote, the first chapter of the Asterix story Asterix and the Cauldron, by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, is published. Blackhawk (1944 series), with issue #243 (Oct./Nov. cover date) suspends publication. (DC Comics). The series is put on hiatus until 1976. Captain Action #1: 17-year-old Jim Shooter writes the first issue of DC's first toy tie-in. Wonder Woman #178: Dennis O'Neil and Mike Sekowsky become the new creative team on the title. Mysterious Suspense #1 by Charlton Comics presents the first appearance of Steve Ditko's The Question in his own title. The first volume of the long-running manga series Golgo 13 is published by creator Takao Saito. November November 8: In Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the oldest comics store in Europe, Lambiek, is opened by Kees Kousemaker. November 12: