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Treasure Chest

Treasure Chest (full name Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact) was a Catholic

Catholic

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-oriented comic book

Comic book

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series created by Dayton, Ohio

Dayton, Ohio

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publisher George A. Pflaum and distributed in parochial schools from 1946 to 1972.

Its inspirational stories of sports and folk hero

Folk hero

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es, saint

Saint

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s, school kids, Catholic living, history, science

Science

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and similar topics were drawn by artists that included such prominent figures as EC

EC Comics

Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an United States publisher of comic books specializing in crime fiction, horror fiction, satire, war novel and science fiction from the 1940s through the 1950s, until censorship pressures prompted it to concentrate on the seminal humor magazine Mad , which became a major p...
's Reed Crandall

Reed Crandall

Graham Ingels

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and Joe Orlando

Joe Orlando

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, Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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' Joe Sinnott

Joe Sinnott

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, and DC Comics

DC Comics

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' Murphy Anderson

Murphy Anderson

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and Jim Mooney

Jim Mooney

James Noel "Jim" Mooney was an United States Comic book creator best known as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, and as the signature artist of DC Comics' Supergirl, both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books....
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Publication history

Debuting March 12, 1946, Treasure Chest was published biweekly throughout the school year until the 1960s, when it became monthly and doubled the number of pages. It was available solely by student subscription, and delivered in bulk to classrooms. Initially, the covers were of the same paper stock as the interiors; comic books' more typical slick covers were added in 1948. Six-issue summer editions were published in 1966 and 1967. Sometime during the 1960s, Treasure Chest began to be published by T.S. Dennison. The final issue was that of July 1972.

Features and contributors

A long-running series, "Chuck White" (later "Chuck White & His Friends"), created by Capt. Frank Moss, featured the son of a mixed marriage, Catholic and Protestant, and even in its early days casually depicted such relatively daring concepts as racially integrated friendships. Series contributors after Moss included writer Max Pine and comic strip

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artists Frank Borth and, in the 1960s, Fran Matera

Fran Matera

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A non-fiction historical feature about the Soviet Union, "This Godless Communism

This Godless Communism

This Godless Communism was an United States comics feature that appeared in Treasure Chest , a biweekly, subscription-only comic book distributed in parochial schools from 1946 to 1972....
", drawn by Reed Crandall

Reed Crandall

Reed Crandall was an United States illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC Comics of the 1950s....
, debuted in vol. 17, #2 (Sept. 28, 1961) and appeared in every second issue through #20.

Others who worked on Treasure Chest included writer-editor Bob Wischmeyer, writers Ruth Barton, Frances E. Crandall, Helen L. Gillum, Arch Ward, and Barry Reese, and artists or writer-artists Bernard Baily

Bernard Baily

Bernard Baily was an United States comic book artist best known as co-creator of the DC Comics characters the Spectre and Hourman, and a comics publisher, writer, and Editing....
, James O. Christiansen, Ed Hunter, E.A. Jurist (possibly comic-book writer Ed Jurist), Jim Mooney

Jim Mooney

Clara Elsene Peck

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, Bob Powell

Bob Powell (comics)

Bob Powell n? Stanislav Robert Pawlowski was an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1930-40s Golden Age of comic books, including on the features "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" and "Mr....
, Sid Quinn, and Ozella Welch.

External links

(On Treasure Chest and the Comics Code)
, Mark Carlson, the Nostalgia Zone