Treasure Chest was a high-quality Catholic comic book series published from 1946 to 1972 and will be brought to a new audience by Voyage Comics.
Parochial school children of the 1950s and ’60s may recall a comic magazine that was popular at the time called, Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact. According to the Catholic University of America, “It was published by George Pflaum as “a response to the undesirable comic books of that time with the intent to use the comic book format to teach tenets of both Catholic faith and American patriotism.”
Treasure Chest featured a large array of stories, including saint profiles, events and heroes in American history, as well as various original stories that captured the imagination of children. It also included fun activities and encouraged children to get outside and enjoy the National Parks system.
George Pflaum was able to hire some of the most talented artists of his time for Treasure Chest, including Marvel Comics’ Joe Sinnott, and DC Comics’ Murphy Anderson and Jim Mooney.
Thankfully, this American treasure was faithfully preserved and digitized by the Catholic University of America, where over 500 issues can be viewed and downloaded online!
However, these issues were only digitized and are no longer available in print. At Voyage Comics, we are announcing our intention of remastering the entire collection of Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact and publishing them in physical collected volumes!
We’ve already begun this process, as can be seen below. This requires extracting the inks from the scanned images and then recoloring each page.
The first volume is now available!
We want to not only preserve this treasure, but also to share it with our own children! We believe that Treasure Chest contains a wealth of content that can teach our children old-fashioned American values, with an emphasis on the beauty and grandeur of the Catholic faith!
After this volume, we will still have nearly 500 issues to remaster and prepare for printing!
Click here to see the status of the next volume!
Philip Kosloski
Philip Kosloski is the founder of Voyage Comics & Publishing and the writer and creator of the comic book series, Finnian and the Seven Mountains.