| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | True Heroic Stories |
| Content | Genre: War |
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| Featuring | Famous Funnies Patterns |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On inside front cover.
Activity and advertisement for Famous Funnies Patterns for creating clothing. Pattern numbers 8785, 8849, and 8856. Each pattern is 30 cents each. |
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| Comic Story | One Man Assault (3 pages) |
| Featuring | True Heroic Stories |
| Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: FF #205-583 |
| Content | Genre: History; War | Characters: Private First Class Theodore E. Hall; Sarge |
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| Comic Story | Last Stand (2 pages) |
| Featuring | True Heroic Stories |
| Credits | Pencils: Al Thompson [as Thompson] (signed) | Inks: Al Thompson [as Thompson] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Corporal Gordon Brockman |
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| Comic Story | Single-Handed |
| Featuring | True Heroic Stories |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: History; War | Characters: Private First Class Fred W. Billings |
| Notes | Statement of Ownership appears on this page (partially obscuring some art), see next sequence. |
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| Credits | Script: Slyvan Saltzer | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Statement of Ownership is placed on top of the "Single-Handed" story , partially obscuring the artwork.
Publisher: Famous Funnies Publishing, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York 36, N. Y. Editor: Harold A. Moore, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York 36, N. Y. Managing Editor: None. Business Manager: William B. Pape, 23 Commercial St., P. O. Box 1630, Waterbury 20, Connecticut.
Owners: The Eastern Color Printing Company, 23 Commercial St., P. O. Box 1630, Waterbury 20, Connecticut; American-Republican, Inc., 61 Leavenworth St., Waterbury 20, Connecticut; Eric Pape, Waterbury 20, Connecticut; William B. Pape, Waterbury 20, Connecticut; E. Robert Stevenson, Waterbury 12, Connecticut; James H. Darcey, Waterbury 20, Connecticut; B. H. Dupuy, Waterbury 10, Connecticut; David S. Hibbard, 68 Fairbanks Avenue, Kenmore 23, New York (trustee); Elizabeth E. Stevenson (trustee); Sylvia S. Hibbard, 68 Fairbanks Avenue, Kenmore 23, New York; Elizabeth E. Stevenson, 126 Sunny Reach Drive, West Hartford, Connecticut; and Robert I. Stevenson, 126 Sunny Reach Drive, West Hartford, Connecticut. |
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| Comic Story | Temple of the Living Dead (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Tom Terriss the Vagabond Adventurer |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tom Terriss; Alec; Chang Wu; Dai Lama; unnamed Buddhist monks |
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| Featuring | Dickie Dare |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Chief; Loland (Chief's son); Captain John Henry; Lolanda; Wags; Malawata [Neptune] (imaginary sea god) |
| Notes | Matera worked on the strip in 1948 and 1949, so these reprints fall within those dates. |
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| Text Story | The Thief of Moro (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Koru; Sidapa; Wong Lu; Tai Ling |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Steve Roper; Fred Burns; Scuffy McGuffy; Nicholas Rostov; Mickey Waters; "Still" Waters |
| Notes | Dates and copyright notices edited out of all panels that had them, except that for 6-17-48. |
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| PSA | National Boy Scouts of America Jamboree 1953 (1 page) |
| Featuring | Boy Scouts of America |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
A public service announcement promoting the 1953 Boy Scouts of American National Jamboree. |
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| Advertisement | Get Prizes...Make Money (1 page) |
| Featuring | American Seed Company, Inc. |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Back cover.
Advertisement for selling seeds with the American Seed Company, Inc. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |
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