Pro-mining propaganda comic from mid-1960s

As the Chilean Miner telenovela continues today, with mining company execs and politicians now transforming a barely-averted catastrophe into a publicity stunt: here’s timely look back at some mid-century American mining industry propaganda in the form of a weird comic book unearthed by Ethan Persoff.

“With an environmental message!,” says Ethan— “Specifically how strip mines are good for clearing landscape of pesky earth to make way for park benches and manufactured fishing (check out the very funny Sportsman’s paradise joke on page 11).

Comics with Problems #41: “New Uses for Good Earth” (or, Ethan’s title,
“Gee Dad, can they flatten our mountaintop, TOO?”)