and comics artist, passes away at the age of 79. July July 11: Antonio Salemme, Italian comics artist (Il Principe Azzurro), dies at the age of 48 or 49. July 21: Giove Toppi, Italian comics artist (Topo Lino, Renato Gallo), dies at age 53. August August 10: Albert Guillaume, French caricaturist, illustrator and poster designer who also made some occasional pantomime comics, dies at age 69. September September 11: Horst Rosenthal, German-born French comics artist (made a series of text comics while incarcerated in Gurs internment camp, among them a comic strip starring Mickey Mouse named Mickey au Camp de Gurs), is executed in Auschwitz at the age of 27. November November 7: J. Norman Lynd, American comics artist (Family Portraits, continued Vignettes of Life), dies at age 63. November 11: Billy DeBeck, American comics artist (Barney Google), dies at the age of 52. November 26: Larry Whittington, American comics artist (Fritzi Ritz) dies in a car accident at the age of 39. Specific date unknown Joe Devlin, American comics artist (assisted Rube Goldberg, continued Looy Dot Dope and worked for Quality Comics), dies at an unknown age. Emil Reinicke, German comics artist (published in Fliegende Blätter), passes away at age 82 or 83. Josiah Walker, aka Jos Walker, British comics artist (Sexton Blake), dies at age 55. First issues by title Boy Commandos, cover-dated Winter, published by DC Comics. Comic Cavalcade, cover-dated Winter, published by DC Comics Hangman Comics, cover-dated Spring, published by MLJ Magazines Inc. Sensation Comics, cover-dated January, published by DC Comics. Wonder Woman, cover-dated Summer, published by DC Comics. Initial appearances by character name Airboy in Air Fighters Comics #2 (November), created by writers Charles Biro and Dick Wood, and artist Al Camy - Hillman Periodicals Air Wave in Detective Comics #60 (February), created by Murray Boltinoff - DC Comics Boomerang in More Fun Comics #79 (May) - DC Comics Dan the Dyna-Mite in Star Spangled Comics #7 (April), created by Mort Weisinger and Hal Sharp - DC Comics Dan Turpin in Detective Comics #64 (June), created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby - DC Comics Doctor Poison in Sensation Comics #2 (February), created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter - DC Comics Etta Candy' in Sensation Comics #2 (February), created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter - DC Comics False-Face in Leading Comics #2 (National Comics, Spring), created by Mort Weisinger