Other than a few issues for sale, there is next to no information on this comic book series we ran into in the archives of the Schenectady Museum. Apparently in the 1940s there was a lull of scientific interest so General Electric made a comic book series called, appropriately enough, “Adventures in Electricty.” The company gave away copies to anyone who wrote to them, in the end giving out around 75 million copies.
Here are some photos:
Maybe we can get them all scanned and put online …
I saw a guy on the subway the other day who was reading a comic book on his iPhone. It looked beautiful. Doing a bit of research online I have found a few apps (http://www.actionsreaction.com/pulllists-iphone-app/) that play cbr and cbz files and there are a few articles, http://iphonecomicbookreader.com/how-to-read-comic-books-on-your-iphone and http://iphonecomicbookreader.com/ that talk about it. The challenge, apparently, is that there is very little content presently available.
I can’t imaging a better place to re-present GE’s Adventures in Electricity than on an iPhone.
That’s awesome. Thanks dude. It would be rad to have an app full of science stuff from GE.
[...] GE Adventure, just to see where we sat in the results and I randomly stumbled on some full scans of old GE comics which I promptly grabbed and uploaded to our Flickr [...]
There were quite a few of these comics. I collect them myself. You might find this link of interest as it provides information and pictures about many of them: https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?SeriesID=2541
I loved the GE comics! Adventures in Electricity got me going on a path to become an EE. That picture of the little electrons cooly trotting through teh big wire, but bunching and crowding and heating up when pushing through teh small wire is embossed in my brain.
Yes! scan them and post them, and make some new ones about renewable green power!
To the future…..
I have several copys of Adventures in Electricity,More power to America,adventures in jet power & our place in space.I was woundering if you would be interested in them ? Let me know. Tim