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Page 47, aide to President Wilson: "A war would boom industry. Why don't we go in now?"
Shows that the elites were for war as a way of "boosting" economy even back in 1917. |
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Publication | December 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Quarterly |
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Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Columbia; Sir Francis Drake (inset); Woodrow Wilson (inset); Black Hawk (inset); Billy Mitchell (inset); Richard the Lion-Hearted (inset); Pat Christie (inset) |
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Text Article | The American Tradition (1 page) |
Synopsis | "We live in a world at war."... "Read REAL LIFE COMICS to ready yourself for the days ahead-..." |
Featuring | Talks With The Editor |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
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Comic Story | The Story of Tyranny (15 pages) |
Synopsis | The story of tryants. |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Billy; Columbia; Caligua; Cassius Chaerea; Velasquez; Hernando Cortez; Montezuma; Guatimozin; Diego; Ivan the Terrible; Toussaint L'Ouverture; Napoleon; General Leclerc; Dessalines; Henri Christophe |
Notes | Froehlich signs in the final panel. |
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Comic Story | Sir Francis Drake Ruler of the Sea (11 pages) |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Sir Francis Drake; Queen Elizabeth I; Tom Moone; John Oxeham |
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Comic Story | General "Billy" Mitchell (4 pages) |
Synopsis | General Mitchell believed that planes are important in war. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: "Billy" Mitchell |
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Comic Story | Richard The Lion-Hearted (10 pages) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: King Richard The Lion-Hearted; Albert; Caruthers; Blondel; The Mighty Saladin; Phillip Augustus; Duke Leopold; Prince John the Evil |
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Comic Story | The Life of Woodrow Wilson (6 pages) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Thomas Woodrow Wilson; Ellen Wilson; Archduke Francis of Austria |
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Comic Story | Heroes of the R.A.F. (5 pages) |
Synopsis | (June 1940) Christie in an unarmed plane attacked enemy's plane forcing it to crash land.
(September 1940) Christie crashed and forced to return to recoup in Canada. |
Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Flight Lieutenant "Pat" Christie |
Notes | George Patterson "Pat" Christie (October 1917 - July 1942) |
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Text Story | Light of Liberty (2 pages) |
Featuring | A True Story |
Credits | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Comic Story | The Black Hawk War (11 pages) |
Synopsis | Black Hawk meets Abraham Lincoln in battle. |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Black Hawk; Abraham Lincoln; Ann Rutledge (as "Anne"); William Berry; General Atkinson; Red Bird |
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Publisher advertisement | Danger Calls the American Crusader into Action! (1 page) |
Synopsis | first appearance to be in August #19 of Thrilling Comics. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: American Crusader |
Notes | House ad for August issue of the monthly Thrilling, appearing in the December quarterly issue of Real Fact; suggesting that these two issues appeared in the same month (circa June 1941). |
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