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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published 1968
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing Bertram A. Fitzgerald Jr.
Notes Cover illustration comes from panel inside comic.

Cover Details - "Crispus Attucks And The Minutemen"

Characters Crispus Attucks
Genre Fact; War
Pencils Ezra Jackson
Inks Ezra Jackson
Notes Cover illustration comes from panel inside comic.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Synopsis Information about the Golden Legacy series.
Letters Typeset
Notes Lists artists Joan Baccus, Tom Feelings and Ezra Jackson. Lists Writers Joan Bacchus and Francis Taylor. Any uncredited work in this or other issues could be by them.

26 page story "Crispus Attucks"

Characters Crispus Attucks; Tommy (cabin boy); Mister Carr (Shipmate of Crispus); James Otis; King George III (of England); Captain Thomas Preston
Synopsis The story of the Boston Massacre and the role of Crispus Attucks in this event, which is one of the pre-cursors to the Revolutionary War.
Genre Fact; War
Pencils Ezra Jackson [as E. Jackson] (p. 1); Tom Feelings (pp. 2-26)
Inks Ezra Jackson [as E. Jackson] (p. 1); Tom Feelings (pp. 2-26)
Notes Editor Fitzgerald revealed to Mike Howlett that Ezra Jackson was asked to do an additional splash page after deciding that Tom Feelings initial work on this story had not provided one. Information submitted by Mike Howlett through the GCD Errors list, July 2008. This story was printed in cooperation with The Education Heritage, Inc. from Yoners N.Y. It also appears as part of the Negro Heritage Reader For Young People.

1 page text article "Deborah Gannett"

Characters Deborah Gannett
Synopsis Information about Deborah Gannett, the only woman to enlist and serve in the Continental Army.
Genre Fact; War
Pencils Ezra Jackson
Inks Ezra Jackson
Letters Typeset

1 page text article "James Armistead"

Characters James Armistead
Synopsis Information about James Armistead, a spy during the Revolutionary War.
Genre Fact; War
Pencils Ezra Jackson
Inks Ezra Jackson
Letters Typeset

1 page text article "Peter Salem"

Characters Peter Salem
Synopsis Information about Peter Salem, a minuteman during the Revolutionary War.
Genre Fact; War
Pencils Ezra Jackson
Inks Ezra Jackson
Letters Typeset

1 page text article "James Forten"

Characters James Forten
Synopsis Information on James Forten who served as a powder boy during the Revolutionary War.
Pencils Ezra Jackson
Inks Ezra Jackson
Letters Typeset

1 page filler National Football League Stars Praise "Golden Legacy"

Characters Fran Tarkenton (N.Y. Giants quarterback); John Mackey (Baltimore Colt End); Dr. Benjamin Quarles (Professor of History at Morgan State College); Mr. Stewart A. Brooks (Assistant to the President of Morgan State College); Mr. George W. Ellis (Sales Manager of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Baltimore)
Synopsis Photo of two NFL football players endorsing this publication.
Pencils ? (Photo)
Inks ? (Photo)
Letters Typeset