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| Publication | November 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Every other month |
| Notes | "The painting on the cover of this issue is a tribute to America's fighting Marines who are storming the inner fortress of the Japanese empire." |
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| Cover | The Fighting U.S. Marines |
| Credits | Pencils: Alex Schomburg (signed) | Inks: Alex Schomburg (signed) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Benvenuto Cellini; Sir Henry Morton Stanley; Sieur Daniel G. Duluth; General Truscott |
| Notes | "The painting on the cover of this issue is a tribute to America's fighting Marines who are storming the inner fortress of the Japanese empire." |
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| Contents | Table of Contents (1 page) |
| Credits | Script: President Harry S. Truman | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: President Harry S. Truman (illo) |
| Notes | Solicitation information for each story and indicia. Also contains a message from President Harry S. Truman. |
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| Comic Story | General Lucian King Truscott (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | "Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany - all were on the route followed in a steady drive by the American fighting men under the command of this courageous leader who always insisted on being nearest to the fighting lines." [per table of contents] |
| Featuring | General Lucian King Truscott |
| Credits | Job #: CC-347 |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: General Lucian King Truscott |
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| Comic Story | Benvenuto Cellini (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | "One of the outstanding figures of the golden age of the Renaissance, he was world-famed as a valiant soldier, a daring duelist, and a peerless craftsman who created, out of the turbulence of the period, a world of immortal art." [per table of contents] |
| Featuring | Benvenuto Cellini |
| Credits | Job #: CC-261 |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Benvenuto Cellini; Maestro Cellini; Marcone; Maestro Castoro |
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| Comic Story | General Jacques LeClerc (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | "Carrying aloft the Cross of Lorraine, as a symbol of imperishable democracy, his men showed that France could rise like the phoenix from the ashes of defeat and dismay under German heel and the puppet regime of Vichy." [per table of contents] |
| Featuring | General Jacques LeClerc |
| Credits | Job #: CC-349 |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: General Jacques LeClerc |
| Notes | This is a World War II story. |
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| Comic Story | Ensign Warren C. Burgess, Hero of the War's Strangest Battle (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | "When this redoubtable Naval officer pitted his Avenger torpedo plane and its crew against a Japanese Medium Bomber, ship and men became the heroes of one of the strangest air battles ever witnessed in World War II." [per table of contents] |
| Featuring | Ensign Warren C. Burgess |
| Credits | Job #: CC-391 |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Ensign Warren C. Burgess |
| Notes | This is a World War II story. |
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| Text Story | Lest We Forget (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | "Many American fighting men who have witnessed the terror and brutality that has been fostered under German rule would like their home folks to know the inside story. Here it is in all its fiendish reality." [per table of contents] |
| Credits | Script: Sam Alexander | Pencils: Sam Alexander? | Inks: Sam Alexander? | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War |
| Notes | This is a World War II story. Includes illustration. |
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| Comic Story | Sir Henry Morton Stanley (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | "As a boy he dreamed of the World's hidden wonders, and hoped to be able to see them, and thus he developed a nature that could unlock these splendid secrets, as a soldier, sailor, journalist - and the greatest explorer of his time." [per table of contents] |
| Featuring | Sir Henry Morton Stanley |
| Credits | Job #: CC-376 |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Sir Henry Morton Stanley [aka John Rowlands]; Mr. Bennett; Dr. Livingstone; Abraham Lincoln |
| Notes | Story takes place in the 1800's. |
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| Comic Story | Dr. Geert Kastein, Hero of the Dutch Underground (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | "This Hero of the Dutch Underground proved that the people of the Netherlands were not the docile and cowed race that Heinrich Himmler believed them to be, and his spirit contributed a great deal to the success of D-Day in Europe." [per table of contents] |
| Featuring | Dr. Geert Kastein |
| Credits | Job #: CC-398 |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Dr. Geert Kastein; Mr. Kastein (Geert's father); Von Speyer; Adolph Hitler; Heinrich Himmler; Anton Mussert |
| Notes | This is a World War II story. |
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| Comic Story | Sieur Daniel Greysolon Duluth (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | "One of the venturesome few who pushed into the wilderness for a glimpse of the great unmapped territory around the headwaters of the Mississippi, he brought glory to his native France and his adopted Canada." [per table of contents] |
| Featuring | Daniel Greysolon Duluth |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Sieur Daniel Greysolon Duluth; Claude Duluth; Governor Frontenac; Father Hennepin |
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| Comic Story | On the Road to the Reich (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | "Numerous unusual stories have come out of the War in Europe, but none of them as awe-inspiring as the exploit of Lieutenant Sam Magill and his platoon of thirty G.I.s who captured upwards of twenty thousand Nazis at one bold stroke." [per table of contents] |
| Featuring | Lt. Sam Magill |
| Credits | Job #: CC-345 |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Lt. Sam Magill; Magill's Marauders; Van De Walle; Colonel Martel |
| Notes | This is a World War II Story (September 1944). |
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| Advertisement | Volto From Mars (1 page) |
| Featuring | Grape Nut Flakes; Volto |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Volto; Joe; Jimmy |
| Notes | Ad for Grape Nut Flakes. |
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