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| Publication | October 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Featuring | True Comics |
| Content | Characters: Larry MacPhail; Rin Tin Tin; highwaymen; Scotland Yard men |
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| Advertisement | Trapping a Bandit (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The police plant a fake news story in order to lure the bandit. When he escapes with the swag, the bicycle boys follow him, then alert the police. |
| Featuring | "U.S." Royal with His Jet-Propelled Bike |
| Content | Characters: U. S. Royal; bandit; Elm City Bike Club boys; police officer; newspaper editor |
| Notes | Ad, in comic story form, for U. S. Royal bicycle tires from United States Rubber Company. Despite the title, none of the bicycles are jet-propelled. |
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| Comic Story | The Automobile Industry (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Beginning with Henry Ford, both cars and the technology of manufacturing cars advance to gigantic effect. |
| Featuring | American Adventures in Industry |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History | Characters: Henry Ford; Barney Oldfield; Charles F. Kettering; repairmen; motorists |
| Notes | 1st in series |
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| Comic Story | Boss of the N.Y. Yankees (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | After being wounded in World War I, Larry MacPhail goes into baseball management. His innovative ideas attract fans in large numbers. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography; Sports | Characters: Larry MacPhail; American doughboys; baseball fans; professional baseball players; Pete Reiser; Peewee Reese; Joe Dimaggio |
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| Comic Story | Composer and Secret Agent (1.5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: A British secret agent develops a code written in musical notation to fool the Germans. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Chart Your Course for More Fun, Thrills, Adventure |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Helmsman |
| Notes | Subscription promo, with order coupon |
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| Comic Story | Chicago (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Researchers learn how Chicago got its name. |
| Featuring | How It Got Its Name |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History | Characters: French explorers; Indian guide; Chicago residents |
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| Comic Story | Most Dangerous Passage (3.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | After explorers fail for centuries… some at the cost of their lives... Amundsen navigates the Northwest Passage. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Non-fiction | Characters: John Cabot; Henry Hudson; Sir John Franklin; Roald Amundsen; Godfred Hansen |
| Notes | Northwest Passage |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Two subscription offers, with order coupons |
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| Publisher advertisement | Winners in Rin Tin Tin Pup Contest (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Jeanne Craig; O'Rin |
| Notes | Contest from issue 59 |
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| Featuring | True's News from Hollywood |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Advertisement | Genuine Army Air Forces Pilot Helmet |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Pilot |
| Notes | Ad, with order coupon, from North American Sales, Inc. |
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| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Wally Butts; reporter; football players |
| Notes | Ad for Wheaties cereal from General Mills, Inc. |
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| Comic Story | Balkan Escape (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Survivors of a downed airplane evade capture and escape to Allied territory, thanks to Albanian partisans and the British mission. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Spy; War | Characters: Nurses; airmen; Albanian partisans; German soldiers; British liaison |
| Notes | Nazi-occupied Albania |
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| Text Story | Truly Comic! (1.83 pages) |
| Featuring | Truly Comic! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Jokes from readers Walter Griffo, David Berner, Charles Campbell, Frances Lamparski, Roy Cox, George House, Jo Anne Smith, Jack Cresbaugh, Jack Dormis, Burton Gher, Grant Richtmyer, Juralee Burton, Lucille Brown, William Groeger, Eugene Bond, Ann Ellingham, Raymond Yahr, Thomas Cook, Harriet Zitrin, William George, Berdinia Ware, Louise Ware, A. T. Ratliffe, Glenn Buckarama, Rose Green, Helen Maringas. |
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| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Three small ads, for: chemistry and atomic energy books from the Porter Chemical Co,; trading cards from Evanston Gift House; school and camp information from Parents' Magazine. |
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| Comic Story | The Story of Scotland Yard (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Over a period of a hundred years or so, a highly professional police force develops in London. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History | Characters: Watchmen; Bow Street Runners; King George III; Sir John Fielding; thieves; highwaymen; Peelers; Sir Robert Peel; bobbies; detectives; saboteurs |
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| Publisher advertisement | Jack Armstrong (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Jack Armstrong |
| Notes | Subscription promo, with order coupon, for Jack Armstrong magazine |
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| Comic Story | Strange Travelers (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Facts about the platypus. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Nature | Characters: Ambassador Makin |
| Notes | Platypus in Bronx Zoo |
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| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Boy |
| Notes | Ad, with response coupon, for BB guns from Daisy Manufacturing Company |
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| Advertisement | Any time's the right time... to enjoy Curtiss Baby Ruth candy (1 page) |
| Content | Characters: Girl; boys |
| Notes | Ad for Baby Ruth candy bar from Curtiss Candy Company |
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