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Notable events of 1978 in comics. See also List of years in comics.
This is a list of comics-related events in 1978.
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Events
Year overall
- DC suffers the DC Implosion, the abrupt cancellation of more than two dozen ongoing and planned titles, with the vast majority of the books leaving uncompleted storylines (which were later wrapped up in other titles).
- Underground publisher the Print Mint stops publishing comics.
- "The Cursed Earth" Judge Dredd storyline runs in 2000 AD (May – October)
March
- Super-Team Family, with issue #15 (March/April cover date), is cancelled by DC (the basic concept is reborn a few months later with the July debut of DC Comics Presents).
April
- April 15: Krazy, with issue #79, is cancelled by IPC and merged with Whizzer and Chips.
May
- Shazam!, with issue #35 (May/June cover date), is cancelled by DC (and folded into the DC Dollar Comic World's Finest)
- May 17: Mort Weisinger, Silver Age editor of DC's Superman line, dies at age 63.
June
- Secret Society of Super Villains, with issue #15 (June/July cover date), is cancelled by DC.
July
- Karate Kid, with issue #15 (July/August cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- Freedom Fighters, with issue #15 (July/August cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- Return of The New Gods, with issue #19 (July/August cover date), is cancelled by DC. (The numbering had continued from the New Gods 1971 series, which itself had been cancelled in 1972.)
August
- Fledgling publisher Eclipse Comics releases Sabre: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species, by Don McGregor and Paul Gulacy, considered one of the industry's first "graphic novels".
- Aquaman, with issue #63 (August/September cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- Claw the Unconquered, with issue #12 (August/September cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- Shade, the Changing Man, with issue #9 (August/September cover date), is cancelled by DC.
September
- Mister Miracle, with issue #25, is cancelled by DC.
- Showcase, with issue #104, is cancelled by DC. (The numbering had continued from the first volume of Showcase, which itself had been cancelled in 1970.)
- All Star Comics, with issue #74 (September/October cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- Battle Classics, with issue #1 (September/October cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- Black Lightning, with issue #11 (September/October cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- Doorway to Nightmare, with issue #5 (September/October cover date), is cancelled by DC (and folded into the DC Dollar Comic The Unexpected)
- Dynamic Classics, with issue #1 (September/October cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, with issue #59 (September/October cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- Our Fighting Forces, with issue #181 (September/October cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- After many delays, DC releases All-New Collectors' Edition vol. 7, no. C-56, a.k.a., Superman vs. Muhammad Ali.
October
- Will Eisner's graphic novel A Contract with God is published by Baronet Books.
- Will Eisner's "Signal From Space" storyline begins in Spirit Magazine #19 (continuing through issue #26, October 1980).
- The Witching Hour, with issue #85, is cancelled by DC (and folded into the DC Dollar Comic The Unexpected).
- Firestorm, the Nuclear Man, with issue #5 (October/November cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- House of Secrets, with issue #154 (October/November cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- Secrets of Haunted House, with issue #14 (October/November cover date), is cancelled by DC. (It is revived a year later, however, with issue #15; the title continues until issue #46 in March 1982.)
- Star Hunters, with issue #7 (October/November cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- Steel: The Indestructible Man, with issue #5 (October/November cover date), is cancelled by DC.
- October 7: Starlord, with issue #22, is cancelled by IPC Media.
November
- Army at War, with issue #1, is cancelled by DC.
- Batman Family, with issue #20, is cancelled (and folded into the newly reformatted DC Dollar Comic Detective Comics).
December
- December 31: Basil Wolverton, "Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet," passes away at age 69.
First issues by title
DC Comics
Army at War
- Release: November. Editor: Paul Levitz. (Immediately cancelled as a victim of the DC Implosion.)
Battle Classics
- Release: September/October. Writer: Robert Kanigher. Artist: Joe Kubert. (Immediately cancelled as a victim of the DC Implosion.)
- Release: July. Writer: Martin Pasko. Artists: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Dan Adkins.
- Release: January/February. Writer: David Michelinie. Artist: Val Mayerik.
Dynamic Classics
- Release: September/October. Editor: Cary Burkett. (Reprint title immediately cancelled as a victim of the DC Implosion.)
- Release: March. Writer: Gerry Conway. Artist: Al Milgrom.
- Release: March. Writer: Gerry Conway. Artists: Don Heck and Joe Giella.
Marvel Comics
- Release: April. Writer/Artist: Jack Kirby.
- Release: April. Writer/Artist: Jack Kirby.
- Release: February. Writer: Bill Mantlo. Artists: Tom Sutton and Sonny Trinidad.
- Release: April. Writer: Marv Wolfman. Artists: Carmine Infantino and Tony DeZuniga.
Independent titles
- Release: June by Warren Publishing. Editor: Bill DuBay.
- Release: February by Casterman.
- Release: August by WaRP Graphics. Writers: Wendy Pini and Richard Pini. Artist: Wendy Pini.
- Release: February 4 by Fleetway.
- Release: May 13 by IPC Media.
Initial appearances by character name
- Madame Xanadu, in Doorway to Nightmare #1 (DC Comics)
- Big Wheel, in Amazing Spider-Man #182 (Marvel Comics)
- Bethany Cabe, in Iron Man #117 (Marvel Comics)
- Carrion, in Spectacular Spider-Man #25 (Marvel Comics)
- Cinnamon, in Weird Western Tales #48 (DC Comics)
- Commander Steel, in Steel, the Indestructible Man #1 (DC Comics)
- Doctor Mist, in Super Friends #12 (DC Comics)
- Fadeaway Man, in Detective Comics #479 (DC Comics)
- Firestorm, in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #1 (DC Comics)
- Guardian, in Uncanny X-Men #109 (Marvel Comics)
- Hoder, in Thor #274 (Marvel Comics)
- Hypno-Hustler, in Spectacular Spider-Man #24 (Marvel Comics)
- Killer Frost, in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #3 (DC Comics)
- Madame Zodiac, in Batman Family #17 (DC Comics)
- Moonstone, in Incredible Hulk #228 (Marvel Comics)
- Multiplex, in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #2 (DC Comics)
- Mystique, in Ms. Marvel #16 (Marvel Comics)
- Ultraa, in Justice League of America #153 (DC Comics)
- Ben Urich, Daredevil #153 (Marvel Comics)
- Count Vertigo, World's Finest Comics #251 (DC Comics)
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