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| Publication | April 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Genre, editor, synopsis, and character appearance added by Craig Delich (February 2006). Cover art identification by the artist's website. |
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| Synopsis | The cover has 4 panels illustrating interior stories taken from the stories. |
| Credits | Pencils: Sam Glankoff | Inks: Sam Glankoff |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Claude Weaver of the R.A.F. |
| Notes | Genre, editor, synopsis, and character appearance added by Craig Delich (February 2006). Cover art identification by the artist's website. |
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| Advertisement | New Commando Machine Gun (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover.
Advertisement for a "Krak-A-Jap" toy machine gun from Illinois Merchandise Mart. |
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| Comic Story | The Doctor Declares War! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Burma Surgeon |
| Featuring | Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave |
| Content | Genre: Biography; War | Characters: Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave |
| Notes | Feature, genre, and character appearance added by Craig Delich (February 2006). |
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| Comic Story | Champion of Democracy (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of Wendell Wilke. |
| Featuring | Wendell Wilke |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Wendell Wilke |
| Notes | Feature, genre, and synopsis added by Craig Delich (February 2006). |
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| Comic Story | Thrill Hunter (3.5 pages) |
| Featuring | Claude Weaver |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Claude Weaver |
| Notes | Feature and genre added by Craig Delich (February 2006). |
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| Advertisement | Be Popular - Learn the Newest Dances in 5 Days - or No Cost! |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for learning how to dance books from Pioneer Publications, Inc. of New York, New York. |
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| Synopsis | Quiz over trivia. |
| Featuring | Is It True? |
| Credits | Script: Natalie Purvin Prager (signed) | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Angel of the Battlefield (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Clara Barton |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Clara Barton |
| Notes | Feature and genre added by Craig Delich (February 2006). |
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| Text Article | Brief Reviews of Films You Will Want to See |
| Synopsis | Brief reviews of the movies: The Desert Song; The Fighting Seabees; Lady, Let's Dance; My Best Gal; and See Here, Private Hargrove. |
| Featuring | True's Movie Guide |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | The picture is of Lieutenant Commander William McManus, technical advisor for the movie, The Fighting Seabees. |
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| Advertisement | The Girl They're All Talking About |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for the movie from Republic Pictures, Nobody's Darling. |
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| Comic Story | First in War ...First in Peace, First in the Hearts of His Countrymen (2 pages) |
| Featuring | George Washington |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: George Washington |
| Notes | Feature added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
Story covers the center spread. |
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| Comic Story | Sabotage! (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Steve Saunders; J. Edgar Hoover |
| Notes | Second of a series.
Story title, feature, and genre added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
Story has a note at the bottom of the first page that it was created with the cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and that Steve Saunders is a fictional character designed to represent an "example of the caliber of men who make up...the F.B.I." |
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| Synopsis | Ad for Wheaties cereal plus a 1-panel gag cartoon. |
| Featuring | Wheaties |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Rex] (signed) | Inks:? [as Rex] (signed) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (February 2006). |
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| Comic Story | Flak Happy (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | A Flying Fortress drops its bombs by accident. |
| Featuring | Lt. Richard H. McGibney |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Lt. Richard H. McGibney |
| Notes | Feature, genre, and character appearance added by Craig Delich (February 2006). |
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| Comic Story | Our Good Neighbor, Paraguay (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Our South American Neighbors |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Truly Comic |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Colors:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Jokes sent in by the readers.
Readers who submitted jokes were Bud Kelly (from Winston-Salem, North Carolina), R. Pizio (from Sioux City, Ontario), Arlene Rose (from University Heights, New York), Daniel Remenaugh (from Fablegrove, Illinois), Jo-Ann Parks (from Boston, Massachusetts), Arlene Krause (from Ely, Minnesota), Bill McCarthy (from Milwaukee, Wisconsin), J. Chambers (from Kingston, Ontario), James Hall (from Bradford, Massachusetts), Maxwell Abramson, (from Long Island City, New York), Phyllis Kerley (from Hiddenite, North Carolina), and Irving Watanabe (from New York, New York).
Watanabe is almost certainly the later long-time letterer for Lev Gleason and Marvel Comics.
Genre added by Craig Delich (February 2006). |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photographs) | Inks:? (photographs) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Two classified style ads for model airplanes from the Model Airplane Company and Capitol Model Aircraft both of Brooklyn, New York. |
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| Comic Story | Terror Bound! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Crew of a sunken merchant ship in World War II survives eleven days adrift. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; War |
| Notes | Genre added by Craig Delich (February 2006). |
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| Advertisement | Free 150 Power Microscope with this Offer (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for the book Wonders of Living Things from Metro Publications of New York, New York. |
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| Advertisement | Amazing Forecaster (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Advertisement for The "Swiss" Weather House, a device to help predict the weather 24 hours in advance, from The Weather Man of Chicago, Illinois. |
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| Advertisement | Fortified with Energy! (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover.
Advertisement for the Baby Ruth candy bar from Curtiss Candy Company from Chicago, Illinois. |
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