Events and publications Year overall January Famous Funnies #6 - Eastern Color February February 17: Stephen Slesinger's King of the Royal Mounted makes its debut. February 23: First issue of the Italian comics magazine Intrepido is published. It will run until January 1998. February 23: Marjorie Henderson Buell's Little Lulu makes its debut. Famous Funnies #7 - Eastern Color New Fun Comics #1 - National Allied Publications - The first comic book with all original material rather than comic-strip reprints as well as the first comic book published by the company that would become DC. March March 10: Bill Holman's Smokey Stover makes its debut. It will run until 1973. March 17: Clara Cluck debuts in comics in a Sunday table by Al Taliaferro. March 11: Stephen Dowling and Frank Dowling's Ruggles makes its debut. It will run until 3 August 1957. Famous Funnies #8 - Eastern Color New Fun Comics #2 - National Allied Publications April April 7 - June 23: Dr. Seuss' Hejji is published as a newspaper comic. Famous Funnies #9 - Eastern Color New Fun Comics #3 - National Allied Publications May Famous Funnies #10 - Eastern Color New Fun Comics #4 - National Allied Publications June June 17: Ralph Fuller's Oaky Doaks makes its debut. June 28: Mary Tourtel retires from drawing Rupert Bear. The comics series is continued by Alfred Bestall until 1965. Famous Funnies #11 - Eastern Color July July 7: The final episode of Les Mystères Surrealistes de New York, a comic by Spanish surreal painter Salvador Dalí, is printed in The American Weekly. Famous Funnies #12 - Eastern Color August August 4: The first episode of Mal Eaton's Peter Piltdown appears in print. The series will run until the artist's death in 1974. August 11: The first episode of Hector Brault's Casimir is published in Le Petit Journal. Famous Funnies #13 - Eastern Color New Fun Comics #5 - National Allied Publications September September 30: The first episode of the Mickey Mouse story The Pirate Submarine is published in newspapers. The story is created by Floyd Gottfredson and Ted Osborne and features the debut of Dr. Vulter. Famous Funnies #14 - Eastern Color October Famous Funnies #15 - Eastern Color New Fun Comics (becomes More Fun the Big Comic Magazine) #6 November The first episode of Joe Easley's Along the Iron Pike is published. It will run until November 1971. Famous