[lrek]

Different days indeed when comics were still seen as a viable way to educate adults.

Link to the book: Our Friend Ken

[crashryan]

Like Irek I wondered what led the committee to decide to publish a comic book pushing Senator Keating. Martin Bursten was the Executive Director of "Friends of Keating." He had once worked in comics. His friend Joe Simon was still active in comics. I can picture a bull session in which one of the two says, "Say, I have a great idea--let's put out a comic book about Ken!" I'm sure they met with skepticism from the committee, but they pulled it off.

I've wondered about the target audience for sponsored comics like this. Did the Friends of Keating figure adults seeing the book would read it out of curiosity and get the message? Or did they think kids would read it  and be so impressed that they'd bug their parents to vote for Keating? The latter worked for kid-oriented products like BB guns and bicycles. But politics? Even if a kid made it all the way through one of those railway workers' union comics, was he likely to gush, "Gee, Dad, this comic is swell! You should join a railway workers' union!"

Then there's the possibility that the comic never did have an audience and the Friends of Keating wasted their money.

[The Australian Panther]

Different days indeed when comics were still seen as a viable way to educate adults

Sorry to disagree, but there were several published this year, 2020. One on Obama and one on Biden, and one on another politician whose name escapes me. All Democrats, And I think there were others besides.

Back in the day, Dell published a Goldwater comic.
I suggest that this is a US phenomenon that occurs in Election Years.

Like Irek I wondered what led the committee to decide to publish a comic book pushing Senator Keating.

What I wonder, is who the publisher was. The uploaded comic has an ad for the friends of Senator Keating, but I can't see a publisher,.

In addition the 'Index card' is incorrect.

It lists - Title - About the United States and Publisher - About the United States,

'About the United States' is the name of the section of CB+ that the book has been filed in. But it's not a publisher, the section contains books from many publishers. 
   
The title should read 'Our Friend Ken' 

Cheers!