Patrick Henry

Few figures from American history have been given the comics treatment by a more legendary creative team than this one — Patrick Henry made his four-color debut in 1947, brought to the page by none other than Golden Age titans Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for 48 Famous Americans. That's an extraordinary pedigree for an educational comic, and it speaks to how seriously the era took the task of putting history in readers' hands. Over a publishing span stretching all the way to 2018, Henry has kept genuinely distinguished company across titles like Action Presidents and Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father, sharing pages with the likes of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln. For collectors who love the intersection of comics history and American history, this is a character whose Simon-and-Kirby origin alone makes him worth seeking out.