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)

[#1 posted by Anonymous, July 3, 2009 9:13 AM]

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

[#2 posted by hershmire, July 3, 2009 10:20 AM]

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

[#3 posted by Anonymous, July 3, 2009 10:54 AM]

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.

[#4 posted by macrumpton, July 3, 2009 10:56 AM]

Wow, I guess not much has changed.

[#5 posted by Anonymous, July 3, 2009 11:04 AM]

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."

[#6 posted by Uncle_Max, July 3, 2009 11:41 AM]

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

Good ol' powerful interests.

[#7 posted by Tdawwg, July 3, 2009 11:49 AM]

I love the Steve Baxter, "in YOUR hands!" guy. Community organizers FTW.

[#8 posted by Anonymous, July 3, 2009 2:22 PM]

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

[#9 posted by wanion, July 3, 2009 4:41 PM]

That panel would be awesome on a t-shirt

[#10 posted by TroofSeeker, July 4, 2009 12:17 AM]

That's not Howard Hughes? Huh. Could'a sworn.

[#11 posted by Timothy Hutton, July 4, 2009 9:14 AM]

FYI - Here is an interesting and fairly brief review of the Poll Tax repeal activities.

Flipping through the comic book pages led me to research the topic, and I thought others here might be interested as well...