Oral Roberts' True Stories

Published by the Oral Roberts Evangelical Association from 1956 to 1959, this 19-issue comic series brought the televangelist's message to a print audience through dramatic, illustrated tales of faith and divine intervention. Writer Homer Menzies was the most frequent contributor to the series, which often featured painted covers and interior art credited to Bill Fraccio. As a pioneering example of mid-century religious comics, Oral Roberts' True Stories stands as a distinctive artifact of faith-based publishing during the Golden Age of the medium.