Quick question:
What do PT Barnum, Daniel Boone, George Washington Carver, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, and Robert E. Lee have in common? They are all Americans, but the answer we're looking for isn't quite that easy. I'll give you a bit to think about it.
Since they are all Americans, here's a nice Jack Kirby drawing of Captain America. Scroll down past Cap when you've got your answer, if you're playing along at home. (Or work. We're not telling anyone)
Welcome back.
If your answer was "They all had biographies drawn by Jack Kirby" - Good Job!
Nor were they alone. Just take a gander at this list:
Quite a famous roster. Hmm...
I don't recognize one of the only four women in this collection. Who was Jane Addams?
Well, damn. A Nobel Peace Prize winner who seems to have actually earned the award. But she seems rather forgotten 70 years later.
And, wait... who's this? James Cash Penney?
Now, how did J.C. Penney get on this list?
Oh...
...published by J.C. Penney Company, Inc. Clever boy...
Got Jack Kirby to draw it.
Very clever boy.
all art by Jack Kirby, mostly for 48 Famous Americans by J.C. Penney Co. (1947)
