Not the type of cover one might be expecting for the comic from which The Bear strips at which we've been looking originated?
That's kind of the point of today's post - to offer an expanded idea of what appeared in Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact. Or rather, what appeared on it.
Here's one of my old favorites. I think even those who don't know of Frank Borth will appreciate it...
I went to gather up a variety of cover types from over the years to give an idea of what the title contained. I may have gotten carried away...
Yeah. Definitely got carried away. And there are still two types of covers which were not included in the sampling above.
The first, of course, is Bear covers. They do like 'em...
The other cover type might surprise you - simply because they don't operate with the typical in-your-face sledgehammer attitude of most religious comics, but rather focus on being entertaining and enlightening while adhering to their beliefs -
Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact was published bi-weekly during the school year and distributed to parochial schools, so non-Catholic comic fans likely never saw an issue. Some names familiar to comics fans appeared in the book, like Murphy Anderson, Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall, Jim Mooney, Joe Sinnott, and more.
They also issued Teaching Guides for classroom use of the comics. We'll take a look later.
And we'll certainly be looking more at the comics.
covers from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact (1947-1970)
