Jim Thorpe - Althea Gibson

Pendulum Press’s 1979 one-shot paired two towering figures of 20th-century sports in a single comic biography. Written by John Norwood Fago with art by Frank Redondo, it offered young readers a compact, illustrated introduction to the Olympic champion Jim Thorpe and the tennis trailblazer Althea Gibson. As part of Pendulum’s educational line, the issue distilled their parallel stories of breaking barriers and achieving greatness into a format that still resonates with new generations.