- Did not start writing and publishing comics until he was fifty-years old.
- He has granted only one interview in his entire career and there is only one picture of him in existence.
- Unlike many other fundamentalist Christians of his time, he did not advocate removing the constitutional separation of church and state or for making the U.S. Government a Christian theocracy.
- Author and publisher of hundreds of Christian religious tracts, which have been criticized as being vitriolically anti-Catholic.
- Served in the U.S. Marines during WW2.
- According to reports, his publishing company, Chick Publications, has produced over 750,000,000 religious comic book tracts in over 100 languages.
- Before becoming an Evangelical writer, artist and publisher, he worked as a technical illustrator for AstroScience Inc., a defense contractor in Los Angeles, California.
- He is something of a recluse, and avoids publicity for himself. One man who has met him in person, Christian film director Dwayne Walker, described him as "a little bald man who looks exactly like Slim Pickens's character in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)".
- His "fire and brimstone" style of evangelism, combined with his "EC Horror Comics" artwork, has been the source of much parody in the independent press and Punk Rock community.
- His tract "Lisa" dealing with the subject of Child Molestation was so controversial that it has been pulled from production and is no longer posted on his website.
- Published His first tract in 1960.
- His work is banned in Singapore.
- Described his first wife Lola as "Instrumental" in his salvation.
- Trained as an actor at the Pasadena Playhouse on a two-year scholarship.
- He never gave interviews after 1975.
- He was a believer in the King James Only movement, which posits that every English translation of the Bible more recent than 1611 promotes heresy or immorality.
- He claims to have sold more than seven-hundred and fifty million Chick Tracts.
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