Jesus in the Golden Age/Question 0

[Cat-Man_America]

Money-changers haveth their place in making water turn to wine, ...

...but it taketh Devine guidance to change beer into water!  

[Ijiwaru Sensei]

On 7/3/2019 at 4:06 PM, IngelsFan said:

This might not be what you are gunning for, but Haunted Thrills 14 has a horror story where a homeless man finds Gabriel’s Trumpet and summons the dead, resulting in Jesus coming back to send the undead back to their graves.

That, actually, is exactly what I'm looking for. Any appearance of Jesus, reverent, irreverent, in history, out of history, literal, metaphorical. Thank you.

[Ijiwaru Sensei]

On 7/4/2019 at 12:14 AM, buttock said:

Here's one with a Catholic priest on the cover...

That's bad. Funny, but bad.

[Yorgi]

On 7/3/2019 at 7:01 PM, Montezuma said:

The Guild put out quite a few both Gold and Silver

There were (not all guild)

Topix

Treasure Chest

Sunday Pix Weekly in the 40's and 50's covering the Bible in general

The Life of Christ was put out by more than 1 company

@Montezuma  Forgive me for my impulsiveness (I registered here -- WELCOME ALL! -- literally a minute ago), but are you the lucky owner of these extremely rare comics published by the Catechetical Guild? Especially the one I left in the quote?

I have also been looking for this, a related -- through the theme of vocations -- comic. Still unsuccessfully:

[Montezuma]

The books I've posted are in my collection, I'm from Minnesota where the Guild did its publishing, so I've come across quite a few different comics from them. 

Monty

[Susanville]

How about this?

[sfcityduck]

On 7/3/2019 at 7:29 AM, Ijiwaru Sensei said:

I'm trying to identify Golden Age comics that depict Jesus in any way, shape, or manner. Can anyone help me add to my very short list of titles? Thanks.

The Life of Christ Visualized 1942-42

Picture Stories from the Bible 1944

Bible Tales for Young Folk 1953

Classics Illustrated The Story of Jesus 1955

Tales from the Great Book 1955

Here's something that most people have not seen, the great Hal Foster (Prince Valiant and Tarzan) did a special single panel comic strip (one panel a day for a 6-day run) for newspapers shortly after WWII telling the nativity story. It was reprinted in Argentina and he was given the cover. A really cool item as I am unaware of a US reprinting in which he got the cover. It is also Life Magazine size.

 

Edited April 9 by sfcityduck