age 53 or 54. Carl Storch, Austrian-Hungarian illustrator and comics artist (Maus und Molli, Pukchen und Mukchen), dies at age 87. First issue by title Marvel Comics The Adventures of Pinky Lee Billy Buckskin Western The Black Knight Della Vision Homer the Happy Ghost Marines in Action Meet Miss Bliss My Girl Pearl Navy Combat Rawhide Kid Strange Tales of the Unusual Wyatt Earp Other publishers The Brave and the Bold (DC Comics, Aug./Sept.) Black Fury (Charlton Comics, May) Little Lotta (Harvey Comics, Nov.) Psychoanalysis (EC Comics, Mar.) Ribon (Shueisha, Aug.) Zenith gigante (Edizioni Audace) : reprints of Western adventures already appeared in strip format. Miciolino (April) and Volpetto (Bianconi editore, July): Italian magazines for the younger ones. Pepito (15 July), edizioni Alpe.. Renamed titles Cowboy Action #5 renamed from Western Thrillers Gunsmoke Western #32 renamed from Western Tales of Black Rider - Marvel Comics Jann of the Jungle #8 renamed from Jungle Tales - Marvel Comics Patty Powers #4 renamed from Della Vision - Marvel Comics Police Badge issue 749 #5 renamed from Spy Thrillers - Marvel Comics Strange Stories of Suspense #5 renamed from Rugged Action - Marvel Comics Western Tales of Black Rider #28 renamed from Black Rider - Atlas Comics Initial appearance by character name Atlas Comics Black Knight (Sir Percy), in Black Knight #1 (May) Homer the Happy Ghost, in Homer, The Happy Ghost #1 (Mar.) Morgan le Fay, in Black Knight #1 (May) Mordred, in Black Knight #1 (May) Rawhide Kid, in Rawhide Kid #1 (Mar.) DC Comics Ace the Bat-Hound, in Batman #92 (July) Krypto in Adventure Comics #210 (March), created by Otto Binder and Curt Swan - DC Comics Martian Manhunter in Detective Comics #225 (November), created by Joseph Samachson and Joseph Certa - DC Comics Silent Knight in The Brave and the Bold #1 (August), created by Robert Kanigher and Irv Novick - DC Comics Viking Prince in The Brave and the Bold #1 (August), created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert - DC Comics Other publishers Kid Marvelman, in Marvelman #102 (L. Miller & Son, July) Pon Pon, by Luciano Bottaro, in Lo scolaro (with the name of Sir funghetto); animated mushroom. Nonna Abelarda, by Giovan Battista Carpi, in Volpetto (editoriale Bianconi, July); sprightly old woman with Herculean strength. References 1950s comics