Benjamin Franklin

Gilberton’s 1956 one-shot Benjamin Franklin is a compact, fact-driven biography from the publisher’s classic line of educational comics. Writers Adelaide Lee and Benjamin Franklin (the latter via his own writings) join artists Alex A. Blum and Gustav Schrotter to present the polymath inventor, printer, and statesman’s life in a clear, reverent comic format. It’s a neat artifact of mid-century comic book history, blending historical instruction with the sequential art of the time.