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| Thanks for having me on the forum and thank you for putting this here! The "Heroic Mailman" is my grandfather. I have been unable to find a physical copy (I have extremely aged pages from the original) but this is just beautiful. |
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| Publication | May 1950 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | Previous indexer credited Alex Toth, but A. Thompson was the regular cover artist for this series. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure |
| Notes | Previous indexer credited Alex Toth, but A. Thompson was the regular cover artist for this series. |
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| Advertisement | What You Can Do about Pimples (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Factual advertisement for product sold by Dornol Products in New York that battles various facial problems.
Found on the inside front cover. The indicia indicates the President of Famous Funnies, Inc. as William J. Pape and William R. Pape as the Treasurer. Sequence added by Craig Delich 2012-11-7. |
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| Synopsis | Eastern Color wording: "Men and women chosen by this publication for their daring actions in hazardous tasks", listing the names of 19 individuals whose stories are told in this issue. |
| Featuring | Heroic Hall of Honor |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | Hero of the High Seas (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | African-American sailor Perry volunteers to assist an injured man aboard the Trawler "Phantom" at the risk of his own life. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: James L. Perry (Chief Pharmacist' Mate); un-named injured sailor |
| Notes | Pencil credit added by Craig Delich 2012-11-7. Story is based on this issue's cover portrayal. |
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| Comic Story | Quagmire! (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two men driving near Oakes Pond in Bloomfield, New Jersey, spot a young boy sinking in the mud of a recently drained pond and assist in saving him from certain death. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Angelo Posechia; George Kraus; unnamed 11-year-old boy |
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| Comic Story | Bus Driver Hero (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bus driver O'Mara is on his morning run when a toddler on a tricycle rides out in front of his bus, and only the quick wits of O'Mara saves the boy's life. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Credits | Pencils: Ray Thornley? | Inks: Ray Thornley? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Thomas J. O'Mara; un-named toddler |
| Notes | Artist credits by Craig Delich 2012-11-7. |
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| Comic Story | River Rescue (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Worker William Hanley spots a 10-year-old pupil at Quinsigamond School falling into the water and going under, so he dives into the water and saves the boy's life. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: William Hanley; Richard; Richard's unnamed sister |
| Notes | The name Sam Decker was a pen name used separately and in tandem by both Sam and Louis Glanzman. |
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| Comic Story | Crack-Up! (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Getting ready to retire for the night, Harry Bolland of Orange, New Jersey, hears a car plow throgh a gate and into a lake in a nearby park, and dashes out, jumps in and rescues the people inside. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Harry Bolland |
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| Comic Story | Courage Cheats the Smoke (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Late one afternoon a fire breaks out in the three-story Ellis home. Young James runs out to safety, but his brother John is still inside. With remarkable courage, the mother of the trapped boy rushes in to save her son. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Mrs. Wilbur Ellis; John Ellis; James Ellis |
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| Comic Story | The Crippled Crime Buster (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rookie Patrolman Powers, on leave with a serious back injury, comes upon the robbery in progress, and, with risk to life and limb, pursues the crook and brings him to justice, for which he received the News Hero of the Month Award and was received before the New York City Police Department Honor Board. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: John A. Powers, Jr. (Policeman); un-named crook (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Potomac Rescue (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lt. Fairall is alerted by fellow firemen that three young boys are trapped on a sandbar beneath a bridge and face certain death. Fairall leads the attempt to rescue the lads and is awarded the Silver Medal for his actions. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Lt. Meade C. Fairall |
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| Comic Story | Gravel-Pit Pool Hero (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | With his pal going down a second time, Eddie Easton dives into a large gravel-pit pool to rescue a friend of his, who is then given artificial resuscitation by a passer-by. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Eddie Easton |
| Notes | Corrected story title by Craig Delich 2012-11-7. |
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| Comic Story | Heroic Mailman (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mailman Long spots a drowning man beneath Howard Bridge in Charleston, Massachusetts, and throws him a life preserver. When the man refuses to take hold of it, Long jumps in and rescues him. For his effort, mailman Long receives medals and awards. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Daniel M. Long (mailman) |
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| Character profile | Arlene Bailey |
| Synopsis | Troop No. 30 Intermediate Girl Scout Bailey was recommended for the award of the Silver Cross for Lifesaving when she saved the life of an 11-year-old girl whose dress had caught fire. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Arlene Bailey |
| Notes | Writer and letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2012-11-7. |
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| Synopsis | The kids visit the aquarium and watch a puffer fish trying to teach his offspring how to blow. One kid gets the idea to give the adult fish a piece of bubble gum to illustrate this to his sibling. |
| Content | Characters: Pud |
| Notes | Illustrated advertisement for Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum.
Sequence added by Craig Delich 2012-11-7. |
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| Text Story | Steeplejack (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Steeplejack Kemp, working on a chimney, suddenly has his scaffold break from under him, and he desperately swings to a ledge for safety. However, he has no way down nor do his rescuers have any way up to him. One attempt was made by an airplane, but, when that fails, the Coast Guard was called in, and they succeed in the rescie by use of a rocket gun. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Non-fiction | Characters: James Kemp |
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| Comic Story | Lucky Hunch (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Francis cuts short a trip to see his aged mother. As he rushes home to find his home engulfed in smoke and flame. He crashes through a window, awakens his wife and friend, rescuing them, and then must re-enter to save the life of his daughter. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Francis I. O'Laughlin; Mrs. O'Laughlin; Diane O'Laughlin; Lillian |
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| Comic Story | Supreme Sacrifice (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A 14-year-old girl of Riverside, New Jersey, gives her own life to save that of a drowning young boy struggling in the water. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: June Sickler (death); unnamed boy |
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| Comic Story | City Hero (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A Department of Sanitation worker in New York risks life and limb to rescue four young children left in their apartment by their mother who went shopping, who have accidently set fire to curtains. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Credits | Pencils: Ray Thornley? | Inks: Ray Thornley? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Louis Mastrangelo; unnamed mother; unnamed children |
| Notes | Artist credits added by Craig Delich 2012-11-7. |
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| Comic Story | Dockside Rescue (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | The quick thinking and wits of Boy Scout Emile Berube saves the lives of two drowning boys. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Emile Berube; John Stears; Ronald Stears; Mrs. Stears |
| Notes | Everett art credits confirmed by Blake Bell and Doc Vassallo. |
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| Comic Story | Match Fire (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mrs. Leonard displays exceptional courage and presence of mind when she rescues her two young sons, who, left alone in an upstairs playroom, find a box of matches and accidently cause a fire. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Credits | Pencils: Ray Thornley? | Inks: Ray Thornley? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Mildred Leonard; Tom Leonard; unnamed son of Mrs. Leonard |
| Notes | Artist credits by Craig Delich 2012-11-7. |
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| Comic Story | A Present for Mother (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | After his mother puts young Tommy to bed, Eugene Grimes checks on how his half-brother is doing in his Mom's bedroom, and discovers that Tommy has fallen through a floor, only held safely by the boy's shoelace. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Eugene Grimes; Tommy (Eugene's half-brother); un-named mother of Eugene and Tommy |
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| Comic Story | Night of Terror (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | A young woman, out with her boyfriend on evening around midnight, suddenly leaves the car and boyfriend, and decides to take a walk along a sheer cliff. Her footing gives way, and she falls down the side of the cliff until she gets a handhold. When the police arrive, they call in two lifeguards, who help to rescue the girl before she falls to her death. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Richard Conroy; unnamed man; unnamed woman |
| Notes | Writer and artist credits [full name Morris S. Weiss] added by Craig Delich 2012-11-7. |
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| Comic Story | Pete Summers...and the Runaway Bus (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | The lives of 14 members of the Henrietta, Missouri boys basketball team are saved from certain death by the actions of bus driver Pete Summers, when the bus they all are riding in has issues with ice and snow. |
| Featuring | Heroic True Life Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Pete Summers; un-named basketball coach |
| Notes | Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn. |
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| Advertisement | "While they last......." (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Illustrated advertisement from the Charles McManus Company in Vermont for U.S. military war surplus items, such as signaling mirrors, haversacks, pistol belts, cartridge belts, musette bags and much more.
Found on the inside back cover. Sequence added by Craig Delich 2012-11-7. |
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| Advertisement | Direct from factory to you! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Illustrated advertisement from Niresk Industries in Chicago, offering readers the opportunity to purchase for $4.95 a 10-piece stainless steel, diamond tested, hollow ground knife set. |
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