1948

«	1948	»

The year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by thirty-six years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Non-Fiction

Events

• Mountain Dew is introduced by Barney and Ally Hartman as a lemon-lime drink to be mixed with whiskey.
• Licensee Cardinal Games is founded.

Births

• ???? — Wolf Frass, Uli Krohm, Efraim Reuveni, Barry Stigler

January

• January 2 — Engelbert von Nordhausen
• January 7 — Ichirō Mizuki
• January 14 — Roger Behr
• January 15 — Kazuo Oka

February

• February 1 — Rick James
• February 12 — Issei Masamune

March

• March 4 — Brian Cummings
• March 15 — Yūji Mikimoto, Yūsaku Yara

April

• April 2 — Peter Harryson

May

• May 20 — Tesshō Genda

June

• June 12 — Len Wein

July

• July 5 - Blu Mankuma
• July 12 — Susan Blu, Kōji Totani

August

• August 3 — Regine Albrecht
• August 19 — Jim Carter
• August 20 — John Noble
• August 30 — Ben Hecker

September

• September 22 — Jim Byrnes
• September 28 — José Lavat

October

• October 20 — Jeff MacKay
• October 22 — François Leccia

November

• November 12 — Banjō Ginga

December

• December 29 — Reiko Yamada