NAACP comic from early 1960s

A new specimen from Ethan Persoff's "Comics with Problems" archives: Early NAACP Comic Book History - Your Future Rests In Your Hands and The Street Where You Live (1960 and 1964)

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That panel would be awesome on a t-shirt
Anonymous

I love the mustache twirling. Priceless. I can here that guys voice in my head now.
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hershmire

Oh, whitey. Is there no one you can’t oppress?
Anonymous

I like the NAACP organizer whose drawn like a superhero action figure.

Interesting that fifty years ago(roughly), the drive was to become a influential voting bloc, with no suggestion of an African American running for office him/herself.
macrumpton

Wow, I guess not much has changed.
Anonymous

Fascinating. Apparently Larry Lieber (Stan Lee’s brother) did the art.

And that guy is what I see in my head when I think about “The Man.”
Uncle_Max

It’s like he’s saying what all white people are thinking all the time!

Good ol’ powerful interests.
Tdawwg

I love the Steve Baxter, “in YOUR hands!” guy. Community organizers FTW.
TroofSeeker

That’s not Howard Hughes? Huh. Could’a sworn.
Anonymous

I had no idea that Brak’s dad was so racist.