Teddy Roosevelt

Few figures from the Platinum Age feel as timelessly larger-than-life as Teddy Roosevelt, who made his comics debut all the way back in 1903 in Cartoons by McCutcheon, brought to the page by the great John T. McCutcheon for A.C. McClurg & Co. — making him one of the earliest recognizable public figures to stride through American sequential art. His presence spans a remarkable 68 years of publication history, turning up across titles as varied as Our Army at War and Star Ranger, a testament to how irresistible this iconic figure proved to successive generations of cartoonists and editors. With a key issue already to his name, even a compact catalog footprint like his carries genuine collector significance — a rare window into the very dawn of the American comics tradition.