Todd has appeared in several of Jack Chick's publications. Chick first promoted Todd's message in comic form in the comic book
The Broken Cross, which portrays a northern
California town controlled by organized Satanists. Another Chick comic book,
Spellbound?, expresses "deepest appreciation to John Todd, ex-grand druid priest". In it, a character called "Lance Collins" claims that Satanists control the rock music industry and are infiltrating churches, and urges Christians to burn their
rock music records,
Ouijaboards and
Dungeons & Dragons game sets. A third Chick comic,
Angel of Light, includes a chart purporting to depict Satan's power structure, based on a similar chart authored by Todd and distributed at his speeches.
Todd's stories about the Illuminati were published as the comic book
The Illuminati and Witchcraft in 1980 by Jacob Sailor. His claims partially became the basis for a different book,
Witchcraft and the Illuminati published in the early 1980s by
The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, a
Christian Identity group, and reprinted in 1999 by the
Christian Patriot Association (
ISBN 0-944379-18-4). This book repeated many of Todd's claims, including the alleged power structure of the Illuminati and the idea that
Atlas Shrugged was the Illuminati's secret blueprint, but added Identity beliefs derogatory toward
Jews and
African-Americans.
After Todd's veracity was questioned and investigated, Chick continued to defend him and publish tracts based on Todd's life. Author Cynthia Burack wrote that Chick often made "excuses for behaviours that were inconsistent with Todd's status as a high-profile Christian convert," and that his "propensities to indulge in conspiracy theory and to lash out at putative allies who question his conclusions" in his defense of Todd and other controversial figures (namely
Alberto Rivera and Rebecca Brown) resulted in a split between himself and the conservative Christian movement.


