appearance. September September 1: In Spirou, the first chapter of the Spirou et Fantasio story Les pirates du silence by Andrè Franquin is serialized. September 25: Gus Edson's Dondi makes its debut. The first episode of René Goscinny and Sempé's Le Petit Nicolas is serialized, still in comic strip format. It will run in this format up until 20 May 1956. In 1959 the series returns as illustrated short stories. September: First publication of Manuel García Ferré's Hijitus. October October 16: Gene Deitch's Terr'ble Thompson makes its debut. It will run until 14 April 1956. October 19: In Tintin Tibet and André-Paul Duchâteau's Chick Bill makes its debut with a human cast. The comic strip debuted two years earlier in Chez Nous, albeit in a talking animal version. André Franquin's Modeste et Pompon makes its debut. the first chapter of Atlantis Mystery, by Edgar Pierre Jacobs, is published. October 30: Jef Nys' Jommeke makes its debut as a gag-a-day strip in the Belgian magazine Kerk en Leven. October 31: Ward Greene and Dick Moores's Scamp makes its debut. It will run until 1988. November November 15: The final episode of Phiny Dick, Coen van Hunnik and Richard Klokkers' Olle Kapoen is published. November 20: Malang's Chain Gang Charlie makes its debut. November 24: Dupuis releases the Belgian comics magazine Risque-Tout, which will appear until 1 November 1956. The first issue of Marvel Comics' Snafu is published, but it will only last three issues and disappear in March 1956. December December 23: The first issue of the long-running German comics magazine Mosaik is published. Gunsmoke Western, with issue #32, takes over the numbering of Western Tales of Black Rider — Atlas Comics Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge story The Golden Fleece is first published. Specific date unknown The final episode of both Arthur Warden's Snowdrop's Zoo and Tuffy and his Magic Tail is published. Belvision creates some animated TV shorts for Belgian television, based on the comics series Suske en Wiske and Tijl Uilenspiegel by Willy Vandersteen, which are broadcast during the children's show Kom Toch Eens Kijken. Births October October 29: Gary Leib, American cartoonist, musician and animator (Idiotland) (d. 2021). December December 27: Miguel Gallardo, Spanish comic book author (El Víbora), (d. 2022). Deaths January January 7: Ed Payne, American comics artist (Billy the Boy Artist, Professor O. Howe Wise and Professor I.B. Schmart), dies at age 84. January 18: