55 Days at Peking

A single-issue comic from Mimosa Comics, 55 Days at Peking (1963) is a standalone historical drama that condenses the epic siege of Beijing's foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion into a single, self-contained narrative. Though the series has a "1963–present" designation, its actual publication consists of this lone issue, making it a unique, focused artifact of its era. The comic is most associated with its ambitious attempt to translate a sprawling, real-life conflict into the compressed visual language of early-1960s comics, offering a snapshot of how the medium tackled world history.