An Electric Talking Picture

A single-issue 1978 promotional comic from Consolidated Edison Co. of N.Y., Inc., An Electric Talking Picture is a corporate-educational artifact that uses the comic format to explain the history and science of electricity to a general audience. Though brief, it stands as a curious example of mid-century industrial publishing—a utility company’s attempt to demystify its own technology through sequential art, with no major creator names attached. Its significance lies less in narrative ambition and more in its role as a time capsule of public-relations comics from the late 1970s.