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| Alex Toth’s art was really starting to shine by the time of this issue. Such an impressive understanding of the profound effectiveness lighting and smoke can have on the visuals early on for an artist who’s about age 19. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | September 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Queen Esther McEleveen (?-1946) |
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| Featuring | Heroic Hall of Honor |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | List of "heroes" in this issue. |
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| Comic Story | Grandpop Goes Into Action (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Grandpop Maurice Shapiro |
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| Comic Story | Roanoke's Volunteer Lifesavers Wholesale Rescue (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Unnamed members of the Roanoke Volunteer Lifesavers |
| Notes | Keith Chandler : A previous indexer suggested Sam Glanzman as artist, but Sid Greene was the regular artist on this feature. |
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| Comic Story | Operation Emergency! (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Claudia Williams (former police matron); Jerry (child victim) |
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| Comic Story | Fancy Skater on One Leg!! (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Sports | Characters: Chad Detrick |
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| Comic Story | Bicycle Mountie (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Herbert Bell |
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| Comic Story | Mercy Flight (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Aviation | Characters: Earl Johnson |
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| Comic Story | Life Saving Scout (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: John Morritt |
| Notes | Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn. |
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| Advertisement | The Race Against the River! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Fisk Bike Tires |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children |
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| Comic Story | Alley Duel (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: George Patton |
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| Text Story | Perilous Journey (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Jerry Frank Kincannon |
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| Comic Story | Nurse Without Fear (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Devoted to saving people, Nurse McElveen keeps rushing into the burning clinic to rescue patients. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Queen Esther McElveen [as Esther McElveen] (? -1946) |
| Notes | Based on a fire at the Florence-Darlington Tuberculosis Sanitarium near Florence, SC on August 12, 1946.
Toth signs in the final panel. |
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| Comic Story | Cattle Detective Roy S. Lobdell (1 page) |
| Featuring | Copper |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Roy S. Lobdell |
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| Comic Story | Saved From the Kennebec (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Mrs. Thelma M. Skillin |
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| Comic Story | Danger! Live Wire (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tom Hanley of Hoboken, NJ saves a friend from electrocution in a train shed. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Tom Hanley |
| Notes | Hanley played the boy Tommy Collins in the 1954 movie "On The Waterfront." |
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| Comic Story | The Telephone Company Vail Medal Award (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Jennie Crouse |
| Notes | Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn. |
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| Comic Story | Saved by a Surfboard (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: John J. Komp |
| Notes | Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn. |
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