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| Publication | September 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | Truth Is Stranger and a Thousand Times More Thrilling Than Fiction |
| Featuring | True Comics |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Advertisement | American Boys Bill of Rights (1 page) |
| Featuring | Daisy Manufacturing Company |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover.
Advertisement for Daisy Air Rifles and the Daisy Handbook from the Daisy Manufacturing Company of Plymouth, Michigan.. |
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| Comic Story | Couriers Courageous (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The history of postal delivery and the following of how mail was delivered in the 1940s by tracking the progress of Willie Roberts' letter to John Roberts. |
| Credits | Script:?; Herodotus (quotation) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Richard Fairbanks; Benjamin Franklin; Kit Carson; Willie Roberts; unnamed mail clerks; unnamed mailmen; John Roberts; Mrs. Roberts (John's mom) |
| Notes | Mail delivery |
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| Comic Story | DDT (2.5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The history of the discovery of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) and its use during and after World War II by the United States. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Math & Science | Characters: Othmar Zeidler |
| Notes | Insecticides |
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| Publisher advertisement | 2 Big, Thrilling Surprises for Boys and Girls |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Pencils:? (photograph, Polly Pigtails);? (illustration);? (various, Calling All Boys) | Inks:? (photograph, Polly Pigtails);? (various, Calling All Boys) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Promotional advertisement for subscriptions to Polly Pigtails (Parents' Magazine Press, 1946 Series) and Calling All Boys (Parents' Magazine Press, 1946 Series), showing cover vignettes to Polly Pigtails #17 and Calling All Boys #11. |
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| Comic Story | Fighting Sailor (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The life of Commodore Uriah Levy as he struggles to battle antisemitism in the U.S. Navy to rise to the rank of Commodore. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography; Military | Characters: Commodore Uriah Levy; unnamed mutineers; unnamed Navy personnel; Congressman Butler |
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| Synopsis | What would you do if you were a ship's captain confronting an oncoming hurricane. |
| Featuring | What Would You Do? |
| Credits | Script: Louis Wolfe |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Louis Wolfe is listed as being from the New York City school system.
Solution listed in the last panel but upside down. |
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| Comic Story | Man-Eater at Large (2.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jim Corbett tracks down a man-eating tigress in India. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Non-fiction | Characters: Jim Corbett |
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| Publisher advertisement | Why Not Subscribe to the Best Magazines for Boys and Girls |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Letters: typeset | Job #: TC 64 |
| Notes | Subscription coupon for Parents' Magazine Press comics, taking up bottom quarter of pages 2 and 3 (reverse side of coupon) of the story Man-Eater at Large (totaling a third of a page). |
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| Advertisement | Stan Musial (1 page) |
| Featuring | Wheaties |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Stan Musial |
| Notes | Advertisement done in comic format using St. Louis Cardinal baseball player Stan Musial to promote the breakfast cereal, Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions from General Mills, Inc. |
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| Comic Story | The Fabulous Fraud (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story on how Prince Potemkin fooled Czarina Catherine the Great with phony villages built to create the illusion he had developed the areas under his jurisdiction. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History | Characters: Prince Grigory Potemkin; Catherine the Great |
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| Comic Story | Prodigy of the Piano (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of the discovery of piano progeny Frankie Robinson and his rise to play as an act that helped him play for President Truman. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Frankie "Sugar Chile" Robinson; Frankie's unnamed parents; Harry Truman |
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| Comic Story | Masterpiece in Bronze (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cellini's trials and tribulations in creating his bronze sculpture, Perseus and the Gorgon's Head. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History | Characters: Benvenuto Cellini; Duke de Medici |
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| Featuring | Truly Comic! |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Jokes page from reader's submissions.
Also includes one small advertisement for school and camp information from Parents' Magazine from New York, New York. |
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| Featuring | True's News from Hollywood |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | News from Hollywood, including mentions of the movies Honeymoon, Tycoon, Fiesta, Green for Danger, Life with Father, Indian Summer, and The Perils of Pauline.
Also includes two small advertisements: Trading cards from the Evanston Gift House of Evanstan, Illinois and free poster and information on body building from Cross Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin. |
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| Publisher advertisement | You Haven't Seen Anything Yet! (1 page) |
| Featuring | True Comics |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Pencils:? (illustration);? (various, True Comics) | Inks:? (illustration);? (various, True Comics) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Promotion advertisement for coupon subscription to True Comics. Shows copy of the cover to True Comics #61 (June 1947). |
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| Synopsis | Humorous true stories. |
| Featuring | People are Comical |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Kodak |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Advertisement for Kodak cameras and film from the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York. |
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| Advertisement | Outwitting the Kidnappers (1 page) |
| Synopsis | U.S. Royal and Elm City Bike Club rescue a kidnap victim thanks to the control of U.S. Royal bike tires. |
| Featuring | "U. S." Royal; U. S. Bike Tires |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Deputy U.S. Royal; Elm City Bike Club members; unnamed kidnapper; unnamed kidnapped woman |
| Notes | Back cover.
Advertisement in comic format for bike tires from U.S. Royal of the United States Rubber Company. |
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