January 10: The first issue of the Turkish children's magazine Cemal Nadir ve Arkadaş is launched, by Cemal Nadir Güler. It nevertheless only lasted 17 weeks.[3]
April 14: First strip of Love trouble, by Floyd Gottfredson and Merrill De Maris. First and only appearance of the Mickey Mouse’s female cousin Madeleine, who temporarily replaces Minnie as girlfriend of the hero.
August 14: Marten Toonder's Tom Poes story De Geheimzinnige Roverhoofdman is first published. Halfway the story Tom Poes' home town Rommeldam makes its debut, as do the recurring characters Bulle Bas and Brigadier Snuf.
September 16: Marten Toonder's Tom Poes story De Drakenburcht is first published. Halfway the story Olivier B. Bommel's castle Bommelstein and his car, De Oude Schicht, make their debut.
September 23: The Belgian children's comics magazine Le Soir-Jeunesse, a supplement of the Nazi-controlled newspaper Le Soir, disappears after hardly a year of publication. The Adventures of Tintin, which was published in its pages since 1940, moves within Le Soir itself.[2]
October 18: Marten Toonder's Tom Poes story Het Verdwijneiland is first published. Halfway the story the characters Wal Rus and professor Joachim Sickbock make their debut.
October 23: On Nazi orders two Dutch comics magazines, namely De Humorist and Sjors, are banned from publication. Sjors will nevertheless still be published but within the pages of the magazine Panorama until it finally vanishes in March 1942 and won't return until after the war in June 1947.[9]
The couple Betsy and Stanley Baer launch their own comic strip The Toodles, drawn by Rod Ruth, which debuts in The Chicago Sun. It will run until 1965.[10]
In Norway, Jostein Øvrelid and Hallvard Sandnes start the long-running science fiction series Ingeniør Knut Berg på eventyr. It will run until 1960.[11]
October 8: Win Smith, Canadian-American animator and comics artist (Penguin Pete, Looney Luke, continued Mickey Mouse, worked on Looney Tunes comics), dies at age 53.[25]
October 14: Leoncio Martínez, aka Leo, Venezuelan journalist, playwright, illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist, dies at age 52.[26]
October 22: Louis Markous, Ludwig Markous and/or Louis Marcoussis, French illustrator, painter and comics artist, dies at age 63.[27]