Artwork Info: Spectacular Captain Soul: CAPTIVES OF THE COSMIC MAYFLOWER, Chapter 1

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Spectacular Captain Soul: CAPTIVES OF THE COSMIC MAYFLOWER, Chapter 1

Edward Charles Williams (1807 – 1881)

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Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, United States of America)

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Charles Williams (1942-1998) was born in Blue Diamond, Kentucky, a place he described as a “little old country hick town in coal mining territory, eight miles from Hazard, Kentucky, back up in the hollow where the blacks lived.” As a child, Williams taught himself to draw by copying comic book figures like Superman, Dick Tracy, and Captain Marvel. Shown here is a of an early issue of Williams’ first original comic, J.C. of the Job Corps. The comics appeared on page 8 of the Breckinridge Bugle, the newspaper of the Breckinridge Job Corps Center which Williams enrolled to learn practical job skills after he dropped out of college. Williams ultimately created an entire roster of characters including J.C. of the Job Corps, Captain Galaxy, Captain Soul, Black Son, and Captain Thirteen, among others.