A Blast From The Past: Harlem Globetrotters Comic circa 1952
Bill Stern was a radio and a TV sportscaster from the 1920′s-1960′s. In the 1950′s, Ziff-Davis published Bill Stern’s sports stories in the form of a comic book series entitled Bill Stern’s Sports Book. Volume 2 # 2, published in the winter of 1952, contained a story featuring the Harlem Globetrotters. You can read this comic below.
A Blast From The Past: Satchel Paige Comic circa 1953
Satchel Paige was a star of both The Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball and the first player from The Negro Leagues to be inducted into the hall of fame. The Ageless Satchel Paige story is from Treasure Chest Comic Vol. 8 # 17, April 23, 1953.
A Blast From The Past: Joe Louis Comic circa 1952
Bill Stern was a radio and a TV sportscaster from the 1920′s-1960′s. In the 1950′s, Ziff-Davis published Bill Stern’s sports stories in the form of a comic book series entitled Bill Stern’s Sports Book. Volume 2 # 2, published in the winter of 1952, contained a story featuring Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey. You can read this comic below.
A Blast From The Past: Jesse Owens Comic circa 1952
Treasure Chest Comic vol. 7, #20, June 5, 1952, featured a biography of Jesse Owens in which his undermining of Aryan supremacy in Hitler’s Germany at the Berlin Olympics of 1936 is recounted, as is his subsequent recognition by post-Nazi Germany.
