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| Publication | May-June 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
| Notes | Cover artist identification from the artist's website. |
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| Cover | Truth Is Stranger and a Thousand Times More Thrilling Than Fiction |
| Credits | Pencils: Sam Glankoff | Inks: Sam Glankoff |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Cover artist identification from the artist's website. |
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| Featuring | Smoky |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photographs);? (illustrations) | Inks:? (photographs);? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Clint Barkley (photo of Fred MacMurray); Julie Richards (photo of Anne Baxter) |
| Notes | Inside front cover.
Advertisement for 20th Century Fox movie "Smoky" starring Fred MacMurray and Anne Baxter. |
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| Featuring | The Secret Warriors |
| Content | Genre: History; Spy | Characters: Franklin Delano Roosevelt; William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan; Joe; unnamed trainee |
| Notes | First of a series. Office of Strategic Services.
Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn. |
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| Comic Story | Smoking Fists (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Abilene's new marshal won't carry a gun. |
| Content | Genre: History; Western-frontier | Characters: Tom J. Smith; Mayor Henry; Wyoming Frank; Big Hank; unnamed saloon keeper |
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| Synopsis | A song inspires the name for the town of Bangor, Maine. |
| Featuring | How It Got Its Name |
| Content | Genre: History |
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| Synopsis | Trinity college students pretend to be the Sultan of Zanzibar and his entourage to trick the Mayor of Cambridge. They later pull the same trick as the Emperor of Abyssinia and trick an Admiral of the British Royal Navy. |
| Featuring | Great Hoaxes |
| Content | Genre: History | Characters: Adrian; Mayor of Cambridge; Horace; unnamed admiral; unnamed students |
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| Comic Story | Battle of the Beard (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | The right to whiskers in 1830s Massachusetts. |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Joseph Palmer; unnamed townspeople of Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson; Jefferson Davis; Abraham Lincoln; Ulysses S. Grant; George Armstrong Custer; Robert E. Lee |
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| Advertisement | Mel Ott (1 page) |
| Featuring | Wheaties |
| Content | Genre: Biography; Sports | Characters: Mel Ott |
| Notes | Advertisement biography of baseball player Mel Ott to promote Wheaties breakfast cereal. |
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| Comic Story | Chapter VIII (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chapter 8 covering British history from 1930 to 1946 AD. |
| Featuring | Cavalcade of England |
| Credits | Script: Joseph H. Park |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History |
| Notes | Last in a series.
Joseph H. Park is listed as a Professor of History at New York University.
Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn. |
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| Comic Story | Farewell Symphony (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Creation of the "Farewell" symphony. |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Franz Joseph Haydn |
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| Comic Story | Sizzling Southpaw (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The baseball career of baseball pitcher Richard "Rube" Marquard. |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Richard "Rube" Marquard |
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| Synopsis | The wagon train is about to be stampeded by a herd of buffalo, what will Captain John do? |
| Featuring | What Would You Do? |
| Credits | Script: Louis Wolfe |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Captain John; unnamed pioneers |
| Notes | Louis Wolfe is listed as being of the New York City School System.
Puzzle-story where the answer to the problem presented is found on the "Truly Comic" page. |
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| Text Article | Brief Reviews of Films You Will Want to See (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Brief reviews of the movies Abilene Town, Road to Utopia, Tars and Spars, Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, and What Next, Corporal Hargrove?. |
| Featuring | True's Movie Guide |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Chester Hooton (photo of Bob Hope; Duke Johnson (photo of Bing Crosby) |
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| Comic Story | Nisei Hero (4.5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Fred Kuroki overcomes the racism he encounters as a Japanese-American to earn three Distinguished Flying Crosses for his combat tours in Europe and the Pacific theaters of World War II. |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Ben Kuroki; Fred Kuroki |
| Notes | True Comics subscription coupon at the bottom 1/4 of pages 4 and 5 of this story. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Want Extra Money? |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Promotional advertisement for earning extra money for having friends submit this coupon for subscriptions to True Comics.
Promo is on the bottom quarter of pages 4 and 5 of the "Nisei Hero" story. |
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| Synopsis | A brief history of the bicycle. |
| Featuring | How Industry Serves the Nation |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Synopsis | Reader submitted jokes and gags. |
| Featuring | Truly Comic! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Jokes and gags submitted by Curtis Van Etten (Mendota, Illinois), Dorene Nemer (Brandywine, West Virginia), Peter Zambito (Brooklyn, New York), Dorothea Orne (Stockholm, Wisconsin), Keith Charles (Brookdale, Manitoba), Morris Goldberg (Forest Hills, New York), John Gostanian (Lawrence, Massachusetts), Peter Jones (McIntosh, South Dakota), Dolores Brown (Yuba City, California), Sarah Tallamy (Albany, New York), Arthur Zuckerman (Brooklyn, New York), Phyllis Philipsen (Lincoln, Nebraska), David Towns (Orange, California), Vally Jane Howley (Wallace, Idaho); George Burritt (Stratford, Connecticut), Norma Nicase (Pittsburgh, Kansas), George Maclean (Lewiston, Maine), Robert Guerin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island), Ann Davison (New York, New York), Margaret Wilkins (Sycamore, Oregon), Joseph Dunn (Trenton, New Jersey), and James (Jas.) Moruin Beall (Albuquerque, New Mexico).
These pages also includes the answer to the puzzle-story "What Would You Do?": advertisement for Flight Jacket Insignias from Insignia Mart of New York, New York; and where to write to for school and camp information from Parents' Magazine. |
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| Comic Story | Lucie to the Rescue (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Biography of Lucie Aubrac with the French underground during World War II. |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Lucie Aubrac; Mr. Aubrac; unnamed Germans; unnamed French; unnamed Allied prisoners |
| Notes | Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn. |
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| Publisher advertisement | These Are Your Magazines! (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Promotional advertisement for subscriptions of publications by Parents' Magazine Press, Inc. Includes pictures of True Comics #46 (Winter 1945), Calling All Girls #43 (October - November 1945), Polly Pigtails #1 (January 1946), Calling All Boys (mock-up cover, not reflective of any actual issue), True Aviation Picture-Stories #11 (January 1946), Sport Stars (mock-up cover, not reflective of any actual issue), and Calling All Kids #1 (December 1944 - January 1945). |
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| Comic Story | Heaven on the House (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Frank Lillyman are treated to dream package at the Statler Hotel in New York City. |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Captain Frank Lillyman (101st Airborne, U.S. Army); Jane Lillyman (Frank's wife); Susan Lillyman (child); two unnnamed Lillyman sons; unnamed hotel clerk; unnamed hotel manager |
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| Synopsis | Pepsi and his partner capture the jockey doping horses. |
| Featuring | "Pepsi" the Pepsi-Cola Cop |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pepsi; Feedbag (a horse); unnamed police partner; unnamed jockey |
| Notes | Advertisement in comic format for Pepsi-Cola featuring the Pepsi-Cola Cop. |
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| Advertisement | It's on the Way Back...to You (1 page) |
| Featuring | Beech-Nut Gum |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
| Notes | On inside back cover.
Advertisement for Beech-Nut Gum. |
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| Advertisement | Free 150 Power Microscope (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover.
Advertisement for a microscope with the offer of the book Wonders of Living Things from Metro Publications of New York, New York. |
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