Golden Legacy
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Golden Legacy was the umbrella title for a line of educational Black history comic books published by Fitzgerald Publishing Co. from 1966 to 1976. Golden Legacy published comic book biographies of such notable figures as Toussaint Louverture, Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Matthew Henson, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, Joseph Cinqué, Walter F. White, Roy Wilkins, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Pushkin, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Granville Woods.
Golden Legacy | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Fitzgerald Publishing Co. |
Schedule | Irregular |
Format | standard |
Genre | Black history |
Publication date | 1966–1976 |
No. of issues | 16 |
Creative team | |
Written by | Bertram Fitzgerald, Joan Bacchus, Don Perlin, Leo Carty, Tom Feelings, Robert Fitzgerald, Warren Parker, Francis Taylor |
Artist(s) | Joan Bacchus, Leo Carty, Howard Darden, Tom Feelings, Ezra Jackson, Don Perlin, Tony Tallarico |
Editor(s) | Bertram Fitzgerald |
After acquiring corporate sponsorship from Coca-Cola Company and a number of other prominent corporations, Golden Legacy published a total of nine million copies[1] of its 16 32-page full-color volumes, distributing many of them to schools, libraries, churches, and civil rights organizations.
Golden Legacy was the brainchild of African American accountant Bertram Fitzgerald, who also wrote seven of the volumes. Many of the other contributors to the Golden Legacy series were also Black, including Joan Bacchus and Tom Feelings. Other notable contributors included Don Perlin and Tony Tallarico.