1952 in comics

See also: 1951 in comics, other events of 1952, 1953 in comics, 1950s in comics and the list of years in comics 1952 saw, among other things, the launch of Mad Magazine.

Publications

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May

• Sensation Comics #109 (cover date May–June) cancelled by DC Comics

First issues by title

DC Comics/National Periodical Publications

• G.I. Combat (October)
• Our Army at War (August)
• Phantom Stranger (January/February)
• Rex the Wonder Dog (January/February)
• Star Spangled War Stories (November)

Other publishers

• Journey into Mystery (Atlas Comics, June)
• Patsy and Hedy (Timely Comics, February)
• Space Adventures (Charlton Comics, July)
• Strange Suspense Stories (Fawcett Comics, June)
• The Thing! (Charlton Comics, February)
• Thun'da (Magazine Enterprises)

Initial appearances by character name

DC Comics

• Detective Chimp, in Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #4 (July/August)
• Firefly, in Detective Comics #184 (June)
• Phantom Stranger, in Phantom Stranger #1 (August–September)
• Rex the Wonder Dog, in Rex the Wonder Dog #1 (January/February)

Other publishers

• Gyro Gearloose, in "Gladstone's Terrible Secret," Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #140 (Dell Comics, May)
• Robot Archie, in Lion #1 (Fleetway, 23 February)
• Thun'da, in Thun'da #1 (Magazine Enterprises)
• Uncle Scrooge, in Four Color Comics #386 (Dell Comics)

Newspaper strips

• Linus van Pelt, in Peanuts (September 19)
• Lucy van Pelt, in Peanuts (March 3)

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