Adventure Comics (1938) 296

A Renaissance man before the term was coined, Benjamin Franklin is the focus of today’s non-holiday. January 17 is a day to celebrate an American polymath, a founding father, newspaper editor/publisher, inventor, scientist, revolutionary and more.

   In addition to creating Little Richard’s Almanac, Franklin helped author the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

   Not bad for a Boston-born boy with little means.

   For Benjamin Franklin Day we take you back in time courtesy of Superboy to the beginnings of America. In addition to the boy of steel, ma and pa Kent tag along to clear up a (then) modern-day mystery.

   The (spoiler alert) parallel universe adventure allows the Kent’s to meet not only Franklin, but other Revolutionary War heroes.

Adventure Comics (1938) 296

   In short, Adventure Comics 296 is a four-color trope of the Silver Age. Back when America was still great, before the pre-Vietnam and Watergate era.