The Catholic Treasure Chest Treasury of Lent, Easter, and Springs Feasts Comics is the series ran from 1946 to 1972 and was distributed to Catholic grade schools by subscription throughout the school year (and for a brief period, summer editions were also available). Much of its content was a mixture of historical and adventure stories, “funny” animal stories, and the like. One ongoing, serialized story, that of “Chuck White,” told the story of a Protestant boy who converted to Catholicism.

However, each issue typically featured a story from the Bible, of the saints, a given feast day or season, or some historical aspect of the Catholic faith.

Those stories capture a unique period in mid-century American Catholicism, an era many consider something of a “golden age” of practice of the faith. Perhaps more to the point, the stories are often charming representations of various aspect of Catholic life, including some long-practiced and beloved traditions known to generations of Catholics but in many cases sadly lost in the cultural changes in the Church in recent decades.

Publisher Golden Key has now collected these stories in print form, beginning with Advent and Christmas, and progressing to this, the Second Volume, which collects stories focusing on Lent, Easter, and the various feast days on the Church calendar which typically occupy those seasons.

Among the artists who worked on the series through the decades were the likes of Marvel’s Joe Sinnott; DC’s Jim Mooney, Bernard Baily, and Murphy Anderson; EC’s Reed Crandall, and Joe Orlando of multiple companies, to name a few.

These collections aim to introduce new generations of readers to an oft-overlooked treasure trove of 20th century Catholic culture.