1958 in comics

See also: 1957 in comics, other events of 1958, 1959 in comics, 1950s in comics and the list of years in comics

Publications and events

Year overall

• Foundation of publishers Major Publications and I. W. Publications.

March

• Uncle Scrooge #21 — "The Money Well," by Carl Barks (Dell Comics)

June

• Action Comics #241 — "The Super-Key to Fort Superman", first appearance of Superman's Fortress of Solitude (DC Comics)
• Uncle Scrooge #22 — "The Golden River," by Carl Barks (Dell Comics)

August

• Four Color Comics #946 — The Big Country, by Paul S. Newman and Bob Correa (Dell Comics)
• August 13: Jack Cole dies at age 43.

September

• Superman #124 — the first DC title with a letters column as a regular feature beginning with this issue.^[1]
• Uncle Scrooge #27 — "The Money Champ," by Carl Barks (Dell Comics)

October

• The Cisco Kid, with issue #41 (October–December cover date), canceled by Dell.

December

• December 27 - Taiwanese Manhua artist Chen Uen is born.

First issues by title

• Bunty (D. C. Thomson & Co.)
• Cosmo the Merry Martian (Archie Comics, September)
• Life with Archie (Archie Comics, September)
• Strange Worlds (Atlas Comics, December)
• Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane^[2] (DC Comics, March/April)
• Tell It to the Marines Super #1 (I.W. Publishing) — (also see Tell It to the Marines)
• Uncle Choi (Hong Kong)

Initial appearance by character name

DC Comics

• Batman of Zur-En-Arrh in Batman #113 (August)
• Bizarro in Superboy #68 (October)
• Brainiac in Action Comics #242 (July)
• Calendar Man in Detective Comics #259 (September)
• Doctor Alchemy in Showcase #13 (April)
• Doctor Double X in Detective Comics #261 (November)
• False-Face in Batman #113 (February)
• Legion of Super-Heroes in Adventure Comics #247 (April)
  • Cosmic Boy
  • Garth Ranzz
  • Saturn Girl
• Mister Element in Showcase #13 (April)
• Adam Strange in Showcase #17 (November)
• Terrible Trio in Detective Comics #253 (March)

Other publishers

• Cosmo the Merry Martian in Cosmo the Merry Martian #1 (Archie Comics, September)
• Herbie Popnecker in Forbidden Worlds #73 (American Comics Group, December)
• Papa Smurf in Johan and Peewit: "La Flûte à six trous" (Éditions Dupuis, October 23)
• The Smurfs in Johan and Peewit: "La Flûte à six trous" (Éditions Dupuis, October 23)

References

1. Irvine, Alex; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1950s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. This issue of Superman was the first DC comic to include a letters column that would become a regular feature, though readers' letters were published in issue #3 of Real Fact Comics in July 1946.
2. Irvine "1950s" in Dolan, p. 89: "Following her successful test run in the pages of Showcase #9 and #10, Lois Lane got her own title Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane in which Superman was ever the prankster."