Spring

• Gay Comix
  Gay Comix
  Gay Comix was an underground comics series published from 1980–1998. Created by Howard Cruse, Gay Comix featured the work of gay, lesbian, and transsexual artists. Much of the early content was autobiographical, but more diverse themes were explored in later editions...
  
  (1980
  1980 in comics
  -Year overall:* Big Rapids Distribution, a major Midwestern comics distributor, goes under, and two former employees , form Capital City Distribution, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin....
  
   series), with issue #25, publishes its final issue (Bob Ross
  Bob Ross (publisher)
  Bob Ross was the former publisher of the Bay Area Reporter and a key gay rights and AIDS activist in San Francisco.Ross was born in New York City....
  
  )

October

• Toy Biz buys Marvel Comics
  Marvel Comics
  Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
  
  
• Excalibur
  Excalibur (comics)
  Excalibur is a Marvel Comics superhero group, an off-shoot of the X-Men, usually based in the United Kingdom. Conceived by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer Alan Davis, the original Excalibur first appeared in Excalibur Special Edition , also known as Excalibur: The Sword is Drawn.The...
  
  is canceled by Marvel with issue #125.

November

• Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man is canceled by Marvel with issue #263.
• Silver Surfer
  Silver Surfer
  The Silver Surfer is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Jack Kirby. The character first appears in Fantastic Four #48 , the first of a three-issue arc that fans call "The Galactus Trilogy"....
  
  vol. 2 is canceled by Marvel with issue #146.
• What If
  What If (comics)
  What If, sometimes rendered as What If...?, is the title of several comic book series published by Marvel Comics, exploring "the road not traveled" by its various characters...
  
  vol. 2 is canceled by Marvel with issue #114.

April

• April 7: Golden Age
  Golden Age of Comic Books
  The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought of as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s or early 1950s...
  
   artist Alex Schomburg
  Alex Schomburg
  Alex Schomburg was a prolific American commercial and comic book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years.-Biography:...
  
   dies at age 92.

November

• November 3: Batman
  Batman
  Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
  
   creator Bob Kane
  Bob Kane
  Bob Kane was an American comic book artist and writer, credited as the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman...
  
   dies at age 83.
• November 17: Torchy
  Torchy (comics)
  Torchy is a comic strip and, primarily, a series of comic books featuring the ingenue Torchy Todd, created by the American "good girl art" cartoonist Bill Ward in 1944.-Publication history:...
  
   creator Bill Ward
  Bill Ward (comics)
  William Hess Ward , known as Bill Ward, was an American cartoonist notable as a good girl artist and creator of the risqué comics character Torchy.-Early life and career:...
  
   dies at age 79.

First issues by title

• Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl and Batgirl