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Anyone remember reading these comics or having them amongst your collections? They were published by Spire/Babour(spelling)Christian Comics.

The artist is the late Al Hartley,a born again Christian from 1967 until his 2003 death.
He approached Archie publisher John Goldwater about this idea and Goldwater gave Hartley the approval on the condition that these comics were only to be sold in Christian bookstores. Did Al Hartley drew comics outside of the Archie spectrum for Spire?

Really?

I've seen some of them.

They were amusing, in a perverse sort of way. He also had a bear character, as I recall; and those stories had some rather racist undertones.

I know I read a couple of these, many many years ago. They aren't part of my collection, so I must have read them at a friend's house or something. The end of each story had a moral/Bible verse, IIRC, and the character who narrated it was looking right at the reader.

I had completely forgotten about this series until you mentioned it, RED!

I remember "The Cross and the Switchblade," and one about a guy from Watergate... mmm. "Born Again?"

Here\'s some sample comics.


I remember enjoying them as a kid. The Hiding Place and Gates of Splendour were pretty good stories and interested me enough to read the books when I got old enough.