Picture Stories from American History (1945) 4

Period of Internal Struggle, Reconstruction and Expansion. Cover by Allen Simon. Stories and art by Jerry Coleman and Allen Simon. Early factual history comics from EC, back when the company was still run by Max Gaines and called "Educational Comics." The history of the USA, from the Civil War to the Teddy Roosevelt era. Plus a short comics biography of Benjamin Franklin. A Country at the Crossroads; 1861 The Union Divided; The War Between the States; The Union Preserved; Reconstruction; The Dawn of a New Era; Politics Gone Wild; The Passing of the Frontiers; Big Business; Putting Money on a Sound Basis; The Spanish American War; United States as a World Power at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; The Early Life of Benjamin Franklin. Final issue of the series. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.