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Publication | March 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War |
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Comic Story | Attention! (Mister) Yamamoto (3 pages) |
Featuring | True Stories of War Heroes |
Content | Characters: Daniel Boone (in spirit); Harding (flier); Richards (flier) |
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Comic Story | Leathernecks Pull Surprise Attack at Viru Harbor (4 pages) |
Featuring | True Stories of War Heroes |
Content | Genre: War |
Notes | Art identification by Saltarella (December 2016). |
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Comic Story | Ben Warmer, Demon Aerial Gunner (4 pages) |
Featuring | True Stories of War Heroes |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Staff Sergeant Benjamin Warmer |
Notes | Possible art identification by Saltarella (December 2016). Suggested Mac Raboy on pencils and inks.
Keith Chandler : An interesting suggestion, but given Raboy's painstaking and turtle-paced art production, coupled with a full complement of Captain Marvel Junior stories and covers appearing in Fawcett comics at the same date, and the uncharacteristic hard-angled faces in this story, I sincerely doubt it. |
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Comic Story | Return to Life (4 pages) |
Featuring | True Stories of War Heroes |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Sergeant Walter J. Bodt |
Notes | Art identification by Saltarella (December 2016). |
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Comic Story | Beyond the Call of Duty (4 pages) |
Featuring | True Stories of War Heroes |
Notes | Art identification by Saltarella (December 2016). |
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Synopsis | A mysterious train accident on the outskirts of Coronaville interests the Music Master, especially because farm animals found near the scene were either dead or deaf. He discovers the Nazis are using a secret weapon, called the Sound-o-Graff. |
Featuring | The Music Master |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Music Master [John Wallace]; Downbeat; Tango (Downbeat's pet dog); Joe (train engineer, death); von Frosch (villain, death); Wurfel (villain, death?); un-named Nazis (villains, many die) |
Notes | Script credit suggested by Bails' Who's Who and Bill Black. |
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Text Story | Warrior in Underwear (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Sergeant Thomas E. Hailey |
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PSA | The Music Master Gets in the Scrap! (1 page) |
Synopsis | Illustrated PSA for the scrap drive. |
Featuring | The Music Master |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Music Master [John Wallace]; Downbeat |
Notes | Writer credit added by Craig Delich 2013-2-13. |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Rainbow Boy [Jack Walton]; Police Chief Lambert; Professor Zander; Doctor Lamson (villain) |
Notes | Art identification by Saltarella. |
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Synopsis | Wade Ferris sends for Pat Dempsey because he is concerned that his business is about to be wrecked because of the coal shortage, and that a plot is afoot to do just that! When Pat appears as a new miner wanting work, he hears about the ghosts of Indians in the mine, but later discovers that the mine may be full of diamonds. |
Featuring | Man O' Metal |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Man O' Metal [Pat Dempsey]; Wade Ferris (President of Magatex Steel Company); Nels (coal miner); Toad Harper (villain, local union boss) |
Notes | Art credits by Bill Black. Suggested Harry G. Peter on pencils and inks.
Keith Chandler : Henry Kiefer's inks are evident, probably over Peter's pencils. |
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Text Story | I Faced a One Man Firing Squad (1 page) |
Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Colors:? ( spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: P F C Michael Scambulluri |
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Featuring | Flyin' Jenny |
Credits | Script: Frank Wead (credited) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; War | Characters: Flyin' Jenny Dare; Cyril; Rick Davis; Spinner Martin (test pilot) |
Notes | Panels are extensively enlarged, reshaped and recolored. |
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Text Story | Destination: Death (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Lieutenant John J. Howell |
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