July 23: The first episode of Bud Counihan's Betty Boop newspaper comic is published. It will run until 1937.[8]
Famous Funnies #1 (Eastern Color Printing) - The first full-color comic book sold to the public. It set the standard of 68 pages, including covers, and sold for 10 cents. Early issues of this series, starting with #1, advertised the contents as "100 Comics and Games - Puzzles - Magic."
December 16: The U.S. magazine The American Weekly prints the first episode of Les Mystères Surrealistes de New York, a comic strip drawn by famous painter Salvador Dalí. It will run until 7 July 1935 [18]
Famous Funnies #5 (Eastern Color Printing)
Specific date unknown
Walter Goetz launches his newspaper comics Colonel Up and Mr. Down and Dab and Flounder.[19]
Shaka Bontaro draws an illegal Japanese-language Mickey Mouse story: Mikkii no Katsuyaku. [20]
November 23: Albert Funke Küpper, Dutch comics artist (Krelissie en Direkkie, continued Snuffelgraag en Knagelijntje), dies at age 40 in a car accident.[30]
December
December 10: Dan Smith, American illustrator and comics artist (The Jungle Folk, comics based on the Bible), dies at age 69.[31]
Specific date unknown
Pierre Dmitrow, Russian-French illustrator (drew picture stories for children's magazines), dies at age 50 or 51. [32]
Lee Do-Yeong, Korean comics artist and illustrator, dies at age 49 or 50.[33]
August Roeseler, German cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist (worked for Fliegende Blätter and Simplicissimus), dies at age 77 or 78.[34]
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