Douglas MacArthur

Few figures from the Golden Age of comics carried the weight of real-world history quite like Douglas MacArthur, who made his four-color debut in True Comics #11 in 1942 — right in the thick of the war years when comics were as much about inspiration as adventure. Published by Simon and Schuster, this is a character rooted in the tradition of biographical and documentary comics, the kind that brought larger-than-life figures from the headlines onto the newsstand rack. He shares the page with fellow wartime commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, and his appearances stretch across a remarkable 23 years into 1965, touching titles as varied as True Comics and Low's Cartoon History 1945–1953. A rare slice of Golden Age Americana for the historically minded collector.