Feature Comics #42
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Treasure of the Black Albatross," a mysterious locket unearthed in 1941 holds a secret tied to the birth of a nation—its threads once woven by Besty Ross herself. When the locket opens, a spirit of liberty awakens, wielding the magic of the American flag and a torch of conviction to challenge European loyalists. Penciled and inked by Maurice Gutwirth in the story’s interior, and brought to life on the cover by Lou Fine, this 1941 gem blends history and myth with a touch of the supernatural.
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As a young girl in 1777 and around to witness Besty Ross creating the new American flag. She carried some threads of that flag in her locket, and, afterwards, grew very ill and passed away, being buried with that locket. In 1941, the locket was unearthed and when opened, USA was born. With her magic flag and torch of liberty, she showed European loyalists the errors of their ways.
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