Trump Reading Room LIFE STORIES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS "Andrew Jackson"

Here's a never-reprinted bio of the President that Donnie Milhous Trump only dreams of being...

...illustrated by the one-and-only John Buscema!

Let's start with the fact Jackson was a decorated war hero, while Trump was a draft dodger.

Feel free to continue the comparisons (which go even further apart) from there...

Taken from Dell's Life Stories of American Presidents (1957) one-shot which covered every Chief Executive from George Washington to Dwight D Eisenhower, this is a brief and accurate look at "old Hickory", as he was known.

Regrettably, the writer is unknown.

Reading Room LIFE STORIES OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS "End of the Civil War & Death of Lincoln"

Here's a shorter version of the tale we told on Saturday...

BTW, did you note that, at the top of the page, Grant and Lee have the wrong uniform colors?

Though the author is unknown, the artist who penciled and inked the entire 100-page cavalcade of Presidents from Washington to Eisenhower in Dell's never-reprinted one-shot, Life Stories of Ameican Presidents (1957), was John Buscema!

Be here tomorrow for another look at the Assassination of the President...

Reading Room LIFE STORIES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS "George Washington"

Yesterday's and today's posts got transposed...

...but this never-reprinted tale of our first President is well-worth waiting for!

Dell's never-reprinted Life Stories of American Presidents (1957) was both sold on newsstands and distributed to bookstores (where I found my copy in 1963), a rarity in those days.

Though the author is unknown, the artist who penciled and inked the entire 100-page cavalcade of Presidents from Washington to Eisenhower was John Buscema!

Reading Room: LIFE STORIES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS "Abraham Lincoln"

There's no better way to celebrate Lincoln's Birthday...

..than to read his life story.

Note: there are a few politically-incorrect panels referring to African-Americans as "Negro", which was the accepted term in the 1950s.

BTW, did you note that, at the top of the last page of the story, Grant and Lee have the wrong uniform colors?

Dell's never-reprinted Life Stories of American Presidents (1957) was both sold on newsstands and distributed to bookstores (where I found my copy in 1963), a rarity in those days.

Though the author is unknown, the artist who penciled and inked the entire 100-page cavalcade of Presidents from Washington to Eisenhower was John Buscema!

Roosevelt Reading Room LIFE STORIES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS "Franklin D Roosevelt"

While John Buscema was an obvious choice to illustrate the dynamic Teddy Roosevelt...

...he did an equally-superb job on the story of FDR!

Yet another never-reprinted chapter from Dell's Life Stories of American Presidents (1957), wonderfully-illustrated by the man who did the whole 100-page book, John Buscema!

Tomorrow, we re-tell the stories of Teddy and FDR from another never-reprinted educational comic...World Around Us!

Roosevelt Reading Room LIFE STORIES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS "Theodore Roosevelt"

With Ken Burns' The Roosevelts running on PBS...

...we thought we'd show how educational comics portrayed them, beginning with the Rough Rider!

This never-reprinted tale from Dell's Life Stories of American Presidents (1957) features the superb artwork of John Buscema.

Edited (and possibly written) by Helen Meyer.

If you think Buscema did a great job with the dynamic Teddy, wait until tomorrow, when he tackles the wheelchair-bound FDR in a masterful bit of effective storytelling!