March 1: The first issue of DC Comics comics magazine Detective Comics is published. It features the debut of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Slam Bradley. Detective Comics will eventually become the longest continuously published comic book magazine in the United States, running without interruption until 2011.
July 1: Theo Fünke Kupper's gag comic De Verstrooide Professor makes its debut in the Dutch comics weekly Kleuterblaadje, where it will appear until 1 January 1966.[11]
December 30: The first issue of the Italian Disney comics magazine Donald Duck and Other Adventures (Paperino e altre avventure) is published. It stars a Donald Duck story by Federico Pedrocchi (Paperino e il mistero di Marte, Donald Duck and the Mars Mystery) and is actually the first time that Donald is featured as the star of a continuous adventure comics series, long before this happens in the United States.[16]
