1950s in comics

See also: 1940s in comics, other events of the 1950s, 1960s in comics and the list of years in comics

Publications: 1950 - 1951 - 1952 - 1953 - 1954 - 1955 - 1956 - 1957 - 1958 - 1959

Publications

1950

• Adventures into Terror #43 - Marvel Comics
• Amazing Detective Cases #3 spin-off from Suspense - Marvel Comics
• Apache Kid #1 - Marvel Comics
• Black Rider #8 renamed from Western Winners - Marvel Comics
• Cindy Smith #39 renamed from Cindy Comics - Marvel Comics
• Crime Can't Win #41 renamed from Cindy Smith - Marvel Comics
• Crime Can't Win #4 renumbered from #44 - Marvel Comics
• Crime Exposed #1 - Marvel Comics
• Crime Must Lose! #4 renamed from Romantic Affairs - Marvel Comics
• Cowgirl Romances #28 renamed from Jeanie Comics - Marvel Comics
• Gunhawk, The #12 renamed from Whip Wilson - Marvel Comics
• Hedy of Hollywood #36 renamed from Hedy de Vine - Marvel Comics
• Honeymoon #41 renamed from Gay Comics - Marvel Comics
• It's a Ducks Life #1 - Marvel Comics
• Journey into Unknown Worlds #36 renamed from Teen Comics - Marvel Comics
• Kellys, The #23 renamed from Rusty Comics - Marvel Comics
• Marvel Boy #1 - Marvel Comics
• Men's Adventures #4 renamed from True Adventures - Marvel Comics
• My Friend Irma #3 renamed from My Diary (comics) - Marvel Comics
• Romantic Affairs #3 renamed from Romances of the West - Marvel Comics
• Sports Action #2 renamed from Sports Stars - Marvel Comics
• Real Experiences #25 renamed from Tiny Tessie - Marvel Comics
• Reno Browne, Hollywood's Greatest Cowgirl #50 renamed from Margie Comics - Marvel Comics
• Romantic Affairs #4 renamed from Romances of the West - Marvel Comics
• Spy Cases #26 renamed from Kellys, The - Marvel Comics
• Spy Cases #4 renumbered from #29 - Marvel Comics
• True Adventures #3 renamed from True Western - Marvel Comics
• True Life Tales #2 renumbered from #9 - Marvel Comics
• True Secrets #3 renamed from Our Love - Marvel Comics
• Two-Gun Western #5 renamed from Casey Crime Photographer - Marvel Comics
• War Comics #1 - Marvel Comics
• Whip Wilson #9 renamed from Rex Hart - Marvel Comics
• Young Men #4 renamed from Cowboy Romances - Marvel Comics

1951

• Adventures into Terror #3 renumbered from #45 - Marvel Comics
• Arizona Kid #1 - Marvel Comics
• Astonishing #3 renamed from Marvel Boy - Marvel Comics
• Battle #1 - Marvel Comics
• Combat Kelly #1 - Marvel Comics
• Fightin' Marines #1-176 changes publisher to Charlton in 1955- St. John
• Crime Cases Private Eye #1 - Marvel Comics
• Journey into Unknown Worlds #4 renamed from #39 - Marvel Comics
• Mystic #1 - Marvel Comics
• Kent Blake of the Secret Service #1 - Marvel Comics
• Rocky Jorden Private Eye #6 renamed from Crime Cases Private Eye - Marvel Comics
• Young Men on the Battlefield #4 renamed from Young Men - Marvel Comics
• Red Warrior #1 - Marvel Comics
• Space Squadron #1 - Marvel Comics
• Spy Fighters #1 - Marvel Comics
• Strange Tales #1 - Marvel Comics
• Texas Kid #1 - Marvel Comics

1952

• Actual Confessions #13 renamed from Lova Adventures - Marvel Comics
• Adventures into Weird Worlds #1 - Marvel Comics
• Battle Action #1 - Marvel Comics
• Battlefield #1 - Marvel Comics
• Battlefront #1 - Marvel Comics
• Combat #1 - Marvel Comics
• Fighting Leathernecks #1-6 renamed United States Marines - Toby Press
• Girl Confessions #13 renamed from Girl Comics - Marvel Comics
• Journey into Mystery #1 - Marvel Comics
• Men in Action #1 - Marvel Comics
• Mystery Tales #1 - Marvel Comics
• Patsy and Hedy #1 - Marvel Comics
• Space World #6 renamed from Space Squadron - Marvel Comics
• Spellbound #1 - Marvel Comics
• Tell It to the Marines #1-16 changes publisher to I.W. Enterprises in 1964, also see Tell It to the Marines Super - Toby Press
• U.S. Marines in Action #1-3 - Avon Periodicals
• Uncanny Tales #1 - Marvel Comics
• War Action #1 - Marvel Comics
• War Adventures #1 - Marvel Comics
• War Combat #1 - Marvel Comics

1953

• Battle Brady #10 renamed from Men in Action - Marvel Comics
• Bible Tales for Young Folk #1 - Marvel Comics
• Bible Tales for Young People #3 renamed from Bible Tales for Young Folk - Marvel Comics
• Buck Duck #1 - Marvel Comics
• Combat Casey #6 renamed from War Combat - Marvel Comics
• Crazy #1 - Marvel Comics
• Homer Hooper #1 - Marvel Comics
• Little Lizzie #1 - Marvel Comics
• Lorna the Jungle Queen #1 - Marvel Comics
• Menace #1 - Marvel Comics
• Miss America #50 renamed from Miss America Magazine - Marvel Comics
• Monkey and the Bear, The #1 - Marvel Comics
• Patsy and her Pals #1 - Marvel Comics
• Princess Knight, by Osamu Tezuka, is first serialized on Kodansha's Shōjo Club
• Secret Story Romances #1 - Marvel Comics
• Speed Carter, Spaceman #1 - Marvel Comics
• The Topper #1 - D.C. Thomson and Co. Ltd
• United States Marines #7-11 renamed from Fighting Leathernecks - Toby Press
• Wendy Parker Comics #1 - Marvel Comics
• Young Men #21 renamed from Young Men on the Battlefield - Marvel Comics
• Young Men in Action #24 renamed from Young Men - Marvel Comics

1954

• Arrowhead #1 - Marvel Comics
• Battle Ground #1 - Marvel Comics
• Crime Fighters Always Win #11 renamed from Crimefighters - Marvel Comics
• Girl's Life #1 - Marvel Comics
• Jungle Action #1 - Marvel Comics
• Jungle Tales #1 - Marvel Comics
• Lorna the Jungle Girl #6 renamed from Lorna the Jungle Queen - Marvel Comics
• Marines in Battle #1-25 - Atlas Comics
• Navy Action #1 - Marvel Comics
• Outlaw Fighters #1 - Marvel Comics
• Outlaw Kid #1 - Marvel Comics
• Police Action #1 - Marvel Comics
• Ringo Kid Western, The #1 - Marvel Comics
• Riot #1 - Marvel Comics
• Rugged Action #1 - Marvel Comics
• Semper Fi #1-9 - Marvel Comics
• Spy Thrillers #1 - Marvel Comics
• Western Kid #1 - Marvel Comics
• Western Outlaws #1 - Marvel Comics
• Western Thrillers #1 - Marvel Comics
• Wild #1 - Marvel Comics
• With the Marines on the Battlefronts of the World #1-2 - Toby Press

1955

• Adventures of Pinky Lee, The #1 - Marvel Comics
• Billy Buckskin Western #1 - Marvel Comics
• Black Knight. The #1 - Marvel Comics
• Cowboy Action #5 renamed from Western Thrillers - Marvel Comics
• Della Vision #1 - Marvel Comics
• Gunsmoke Western #32 renamed from Western Tales of Black Rider - Marvel Comics
• Homer the Happy Ghost #1 - Marvel Comics
• Jann of the Jungle #8 renamed from Jungle Tales - Marvel Comics
• Marines in Action #1-14 - Atlas Comics
• Meet Miss Bliss #1 - Marvel Comics
• My Girl Pearl #1 - Marvel Comics
• Navy Combat #1 - Marvel Comics
• Patty Powers #4 renamed from Della Vision - Marvel Comics
• Police Badge#749 #5 renamed from Spy Thrillers - Marvel Comics
• Rawhide Kid #1 - Marvel Comics
• Strange Stories of Suspense #5 renamed from Rugged Action - Marvel Comics
• Strange Tales of the Unusual #1 - Marvel Comics
• Western Tales of Black Rider #28 renamed from Black Rider - Marvel Comics
• Wyatt Earp #1 - Marvel Comics

1956

• Adventure into Mystery #1 - Marvel Comics
• Caught #1 - Marvel Comics
• Date with Millie, A #1 - Marvel Comics
• Devil-Dog Dugan #1-3 renamed Tales of the Marines - Atlas Comics
• Frontier Western #1 - Marvel Comics
• Matt Slade, Gunfighter #1 - Marvel Comics
• Melvin the Monster #1 - Marvel Comics
• My Love Story #1 - Marvel Comics
• Mystical Tales #1 - Marvel Comics
• Quick Trigger Western Action #12 renamed from Cowboy Action - Marvel Comics
• Quick Trigger Western #13 renamed from Quick Trigger Western Action - Marvel Comics
• Sailor Sweeney #12 renamed from Navy Action - Marvel Comics
• Sgt. Barney Barker #1 - Marvel Comics
• Sherry the Showgirl #1 - Marvel Comics
• Stories of Romance #5 renamed from Meet Miss Bliss - Marvel Comics
• True Tales of Love #22 renamed from Secret Story Romances - Marvel Comics
• Two-Gun Western #4 renamed from Billy Buckskin Western - Marvel Comics
• Western Gunfighters #20 renamed from Apache Kid - Marvel Comics
• World of Fantasy #1 - Marvel Comics
• World of Mystery #1 - Marvel Comics
• World of Suspense #1 - Marvel Comics
• Yellow Claw #1 - Marvel Comics

1957

• Adventures of Homer Ghost #1 - Marvel Comics
• Black Rider Rides Again, The #1 - Marvel Comics
• Commando Adventures #1 - Marvel Comics
• Date with Patsy, A #1 - Marvel Comics
• Dexter the Demon #7 renamed from Melvin the Monster - Marvel Comics
• G.I. Tales #4 renamed from Sgt. Barney Barker - Marvel Comics
• Hedy Wolfe #1 - Marvel Comics
• Kid from Dodge City, The #1 - Marvel Comics
• Kid from Texas, The #1 - Marvel Comics
• Marines at War #1-8 renamed from Tales of the Marines - Atlas Comics
• Marvin Mouse #1 - Marvel Comics
• Kid Slade, Gunfighter #5 renamed from Matt Slade, Gunfighter - Marvel Comics
• Navy Action #15 renamed from Sailor Sweeney - Marvel Comics
• Navy Tales #1 - Marvel Comics
• Nellie the Nurse #1 - Marvel Comics
• Showgirls #4 renamed from Sherry the Showgirl - Marvel Comics
• Sherry the Showgirl #5 renamed from Showgirls - Marvel Comics
• Showgirls #1 - Marvel Comics
• Six-Gun Western #1 - Marvel Comics
• Tales of the Marines #4 renamed Marines at War renamed from Devil-Dog Dugan - Atlas Comics
• Western Trails #1 - Marvel Comics
• Willie the Wise Guy #1 - Marvel Comics

1958

• Strange Worlds #1 - Marvel Comics
• Tell It to the Marines Super #1 also see Tell It to the Marines - I.W. Enterprises

August

• August 13: Jack Cole dies at age 43.

1959

• Kathy #1 - Marvel Comics
• Date with Millie, A #1 - Marvel Comics
• Tales of Suspense #1 - Marvel Comics
• Tales to Astonish #1 - Marvel Comics