Texas History Movies

A promotional giveaway from Magnolia Petroleum Company (later Mobilgas and Mobiloil), this single-issue comic strip collection offered a lighthearted, illustrated tour of Texas history from its earliest days through statehood. Written by John Rosenfield Jr. and drawn by Jack Patton, it was distributed free at service stations and schools from 1943 onward, serving as a uniquely regional piece of corporate Americana. Its enduring, decades-long reprint history—despite comprising just one issue—speaks to its nostalgic hold on generations of Texans.