The North American Review's War Weekly

Launching in 1918 from the North American Review Corporation, The North American Review's War Weekly was a 51-issue comic series that blended patriotic propaganda with serialized adventure, most famously starring the personified national symbol Uncle Sam alongside the larger-than-life former president Theodore Roosevelt. Published during the final year of World War I and its immediate aftermath, the series stands as a unique artifact of wartime media, marrying the gravitas of a respected literary magazine with the emerging visual language of comics. Its historical significance lies in how it weaponized popular characters for national morale, offering a direct glimpse into the era’s political cartooning and its role in shaping public sentiment.