“You know that you are really famous the day that you discover that you have become a comic character!” – Nelson Mandela Fugitive. President. The hero of a nation. Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist, forced into hiding, captured, threatened with the death penalty and eventually thrown into jail for twenty-seven years, but nothing could stop him from fighting to liberate his country from the evil of apartheid. A hero in the struggle against a terrible regime, he never gave up. Even when he was a prisoner, he worked secretly with his comrades to undermine the oppressive apartheid government. This is the exciting true story of a young herd boy who was to grow up to become a lawyer, a freedom fighter, South Africa’s first democratically elected president and the beloved grandfather of a nation. It is told here in words and pictures for the young and the young at heart. Young people read comics. The hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead them to the joy of reading good books. That joy has been mine all my life, and it is one I wish for all South Africans. – Nelson Mandela