Weird Tract Number 133: "Who Am I?" by Life Messengers

 Troy Davis writes:

The museum has an extensive variety of Life Messengers tracts in its collection, but until the other day, "Who Am I?" remained elusive. We finally have it. As I have mentioned previously, in its heyday in the 1970s until the publishing house petered out in the 80s, Life Messengers  served as the main competition for Chick Publications in the distribution of comic booklet evangelical tracts. 

"Who Am I?" is a 32-page comic book from 1976 that tells the story of "Dr. I.J. Fronkby," a supposed physicist who, in a public lecture, admitted to being a creationist. A college student interrupts the lecture and the phycicist invites him to talk about it in his hotel room.  The haggy student later brings his shaggy college friends to see wide-tie-sporting Dr. Fronkby (remember: it's 1976).  He tells them why evolution is implausible; at the end of Dr. Fronkby's lecture, the students tell him they are going to start reading their bibles.At the end, a luminous God tells the reader to surrender his life to Jebus.

I did an Internet search and it appears that Fronkby is fictional. One account indicates that musician Duke Ellington read another Life Messengers publication that mentions Fronkby and how it affected Ellington's spiritual life. 

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