Events and publications Year Overall Tony Falco by Andrea Lavezzolo January January 5: Stanley Link's newspaper comic The Dailys is first published. It will run until 14 September 1957. January 24: Debut of Dudley D. Watkins' Biffo the Bear in The Beano. January 26: Frank Godwin's Rusty Riley makes its debut. January: In the Donald Duck story Wintertime Wager Donald's cousin Gladstone Gander makes his debut. Captain America Comics (1941 series) #65 - Timely Comics Frankie and Lana (previously Frankie Comics) issue #13 - Timely Comics Sub-Mariner Comics (1941 series) #24 - Timely Comics The first issue of the Dutch comics magazine Ketelbinkie Krant is published, which is named Kapitein Rob's Vrienden outside Rotterdam. It will run until February 1957. February All-True Crime Cases (previously Official True Crime Cases) issue #26 (Timely Comics) Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #85 - Timely Comics March Collier's Weekly publishes Fredric Wertham's "Horror in the Nursery" Two-Gun Kid (1948 series) #1 - Timely Comics April April 30: The first episode the Mickey Mouse story The Atombrella and the Rhyming Man, by Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson is published, which marks the debut of the Rhyming Man. Captain America Comics (1941 series) #66 - Timely Comics Crime Fighters (1948 series) #1 - Timely Comics Sub-Mariner Comics (1941 series) #25 - Timely Comics May Blackstone the Magician issue 2 - Timely Comics Comedy Comics vol. 2, issue 1 - Timely Comics Human Torch Comics (1940 series) #30 - Timely Comics June June 9: U.S. bandleader Fred Waring starts an annual event where professional cartoonists are invited to come to his golf resort in Shwanee Inn. This will result in a huge collection of cartoons and comics: the Fred Waring collection. Crime Exposed (1948 series) #1 - Timely Comics Crime Fighters (1948 series) #2 - Timely Comics Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #86 - Timely Comics Sub-Mariner Comics (1941 series) #26 - Timely Comics Two-Gun Kid (1948 series) #2 - Timely Comics July July 1: Lev Gleason Publications, EC Comics, Famous Funnies, and Orbit Publications found the Association of Comics Magazine Publishers, to regulate the content of comic books in the face of the publication of Fredric Wertham's "Horror in the Nursery" and "The Psychopathology of Comic Books", and increasing public criticism of the comic book industry. July 18: The final episode of Bunky is published. Blackstone the Magician #3 - Timely Comics Captain America Comics (1941