| Additional Information |
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| Publication | [June 24] 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Uncle Sam; unnamed boy; unnamed girl |
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| Foreword/Afterword | You Can Help Win the War...and the Peace! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Text piece encouraging readers to aid the war effort. |
| Credits | Script: George J. Hecht | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Know What We're Fighting For (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Summarizes the principals as outlined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms". |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Franklin D. Roosevelt; unnamed American citizens; Adolph Hitler; Benito Mussolini; Hideki Tojo |
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| Comic Story | Join Up! (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Encourages youth to join organizations like the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H Clubs, Junior Red Cross, and the Camp Fire Girls. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Peter; Susan |
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| Comic Story | Know Your Stuff! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Encourages youth to get a good education. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy |
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| Comic Story | Keep Fit! (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Encourages healthy eating, exercise, and good hygiene. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: General Douglas MacArthur; Young Sloppy Sam; sam's mom; unnamed lifeguard; Healthy Harry; Harry's mom |
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| Comic Story | Foods for Strength and Victory (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Encourages healthy eating to be a good soldier. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: unnamed doctor; unnamed army recruits; unnamed recruit's family |
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| Comic Story | You Can't Keep Fit Unless You Eat the Right Foods Every Day (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Encouraging eating of the "right foods" to stay fit. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Unnamed athletes |
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| Activity | Call to the Colors (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Activity page designed to encourage daily good nutrition. |
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| Comic Story | Garden for Victory (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Encourages to growing of "victory" gardens. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Sue; Vic |
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| Comic Story | Learn First Aid (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Drawing from the example of three English children and their actions after a bombing raid, the story encourages children to learn first aid. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: unnamed English children and adults |
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| Comic Story | Ways to Earn Money (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Encourages the young to engage in odd jobs to earn money to buy war bonds and stamps. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Jerry; Bob; Mrs. Clark; George; unnamed adults and children |
| Notes | A mention is made in the story that one could sell subscriptions to Parent's Institute comic titles; True Comics, Real Heroes, and Calling All Girls, as a way to help make money. |
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| Comic Story | Buy War Bonds and Stamps! (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Encourages the purchase, even in small amounts, of war bonds and stamps--listing items that can be purchased even in small amounts. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy |
| Notes | Story goes across the center spread. |
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| Comic Story | Get in the Scrap (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Encourages children to collect scrap metal, rubber, and paper for the war effort. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Pudge; Bill; unnamed children |
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| Comic Story | Collect Books (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Encourages children to give "good" books to service personnel through the Victory Book Campaign. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: unnamed children and adults |
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| Comic Story | Help at Home! (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Encourages children to do their chores at home. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: unnnmaed children and adults |
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| Comic Story | Take Care of Your Things! (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Encourages children to maintain the things they have as buying replacement goods taxes money and supplies better used in the war effort. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: unnamed family |
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| Comic Story | Save the Family Car (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Encourages limiting the use of the car so it is not wasting valuable resources. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: unnamed family |
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| Comic Story | Don't Get Hurt! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Encourages safety in daily activities. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Unnamed boy |
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| Comic Story | Write 'em Often. (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sergeant Johnny Doughboy is no longer unhappy now he gets mail. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Sergeant Johnny Doughboy; Corporal Blake |
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| Comic Story | Don't Help the Enemy (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Encourages the reader not to spread rumors, military information, and to engage in racial tolerance. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Unnamed man; Adolph Hitler; Benito Mussolini; Hideki Tojo |
| Notes | Even while encouraging racial tolerance, the only African-American character drawn on the page is in "black-face". |
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| Comic Story | Don't Believe Nazi Lies (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Encourages the reader not to believe Nazi propaganda and to trust official statements of the U.S. Government and the United Nations. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Joseph Goebbels |
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| Comic Story | What to Do in an Air Raid (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Giving instructions on what to do during an air raid. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Advocacy |
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| Comic Story | 4 Pals Go Through Their First Raid (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Four friends keep their composure while properly doing what needs to be done during an air raid. |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Johnny; Eddie; Dick; Jimmy |
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| Comic Story | This Is the Way to Fix Up a Refuge Room (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Demonstrates how to prepare a refuge room to use in case of an air raid. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Advocacy | Characters: Unnamed boys and girls |
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| Activity | Victory Quiz (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | A quiz about what the reader just read. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Don't Miss These Swell Comics (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Pencils:? (vignettes of covers) | Inks:? (vignettes of covers) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Promoting Parents' Magazine Press comic titles. Cover reproductions of True Comics #14 (July 1942), Real Heroes #5 (July 1942), and Calling All Girls # 4 (March 1942). |
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| Activity | Tell the World You're Doing Your Part (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Uncle Sam; Minuteman; Bald Eagle; unnamed boys and girl |
| Notes | Sticker cut-outs for children to paste up to show they are doing their part for the war effort. |
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