King of Canada

Yesterday, a coworker noted to me that he'd recently visited a museum at the estate of Mackenzie King, Canada's prime minister from 1935-1948. Among other things, they had an old comic on display featuring a biography about him. They didn't have much information about it, other than it was " probably published in the United States early in 1942." So I did a little diggin and discovered that it was actually the lead story in True Comics #12.

I've mentioned True Comics on this blog before. They published the first comic book story about Indiana Jones in 1950 (in reality, it was a biography of Roy Chapman Andrews, who was a strong inspiration for the fictional character) and in fact the series seems to be, as far as I can tell, the first instance of biographies being told in a comic format, starting with a bio of Winston Churchill.

There's not a whole lot of information on issue #12 specifcally, though. It was indeed published in early 1942 -- it's listed as the May issue and had an on-sale date in mid-March according to the Catalog of Copyright Entries. But no individual creators are creditted in the comic itself, and even the research from the Grand Comics Database doesn't list even possible creators beyond a small handful of stories throughout the entire series' run. While the title did include the works of now-legendary creators like Bill Everett and Harry Peter, I don't suspect any names like theirs were attached to this particular story.

So, in lieu of finding out much information at all about this particular piece, I'll just reproduce the story in its entirety below...

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