Every week insidecatholic.com runs some old Catholic Comic Book pages from around 1957

http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php...&Itemid=127

Here is one of the vocation pages: http://tinyurl.com/5l4mbj
(Sorry, you have to cut/past that url into your header bar, as the url was over 200 characters long!)

Here's a three-pager on sacramentals from 1948
http://dspace.wrlc.org/view/ImgViewer?url=...fest/2041/27308

Apparently the Catholic University of America underwrote these things.

Saint comic books here: http://tinyurl.com/5cz3cx

There are things in there to delight Franciscans, Domincans, Carmelites and Benedictines! Have fun!

Wow, these are really cool! They'd be a great way for, say, kids to learn about the saints and all. And there's so many issues and pages of them. And hey, I like reading about saints this way, too!

Neat!

oh! there's one on St. Brigid... thank you.

These are so cool!

Interesting...under the Saint comic books page i saw one on a Jane Bernadette McClory, who was a precocious little girl who in the 1920's promoted the enthronement of the Sacred Heart, died young, and was found to be incorrupt sometime thereafter. There is an old webpage with a prayer to her and an address to report favors. There are precisely THREE Google pages on her. Apparently no miracles.

I remember a lot of the vocation ads of the period. One was for missionary men in Africa. It featured a drawing of a man wearing a white soutane and pith helmet standing on a platform of some kind directing the benighted black natives standing below, looking up at him adoringly. Rather offensive, I thought.

Too bad they are not published today.