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| Date | | Number: 68 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | True Comics 68 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: monthly | Editing: Jack De Simone (credited) |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Characters | Richard E. Byrd; Special Agent |
| Publisher advertisement | The Line Forms Here (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Ad for the Parents Magazine Press, Inc. line of magazines for children and teenagers: Calling All Boys, Calling All Girls, True Comics, Varsity, Sweet Sixteen, Polly Pigtails. Varsity and Calling All Girls were non-comics. |
| Comic Story | Richard E. Byrd, World's Leading Arctic Explorer (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Story of Admiral Byrd (1888 - 1957),South Pole explorer. |
| Feature | Hero Of The Year |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Characters | Richard E. Byrd |
| Notes | Picked by readers in a poll as the Hero of 1947. |
| Comic Story | No Title (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | A bank robbery at Morton, Texas. Steve Saunders is called in. |
| Feature | Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| Pencils | Jack Sparling |
| Inks | Jack Sparling |
| Genre | Crime |
| Characters | Steve Saunders; Fred Pair; Ollie Melton; Boy Bandit Kimes; Chick Rogers; J. Edgar Hoover |
| First Line | Bank robbers thought they fooled the law ... |
| Comic Story | Gallico the Great, America's Top Sports Writer (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Gallico became a famous sports writer from 1920 to 1937 by getting in close with the champion athletes. He then went on to found the Golden Gloves. |
| Pencils | Jack Sparling ? |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Characters | Paul Gallico; Jack Dempsy (cameo); Dizzy Dean (cameo); Johnny Weissmuler (cameo); Benny Friedman (cameo); Gar Wood (cameo); Joe Lewis (cameo) |
| Notes | Paul Gallico (1897 - 1976) is best known for his novels "The Snow Goose" and "The Poseidon Adventure", and the non-fiction "Lou Gehrig: Pride of the Yankees". |
| Letters Page | No Title (2 pages) |
| Feature | Truly Comic! |
| Pencils | ? (illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Humor |
| Notes | Jokes sent in by Dorothy Maringas, Nancy Whitmire, Rozella McDonald, Moira Burke, Audra Bayne, Donald Hall, Jack Petlock, Alice Leiva, Raymond Roddam, Eddy Speelman, Tommy Sawman, Bud Lafferty, Edward Shaughnessy, Bernadette Boxer, Evan Confer, John Dittmer, Mary Formby, Carl Durham, Donna Steinback, Anna Bruno, Betty Maddox, Sarah Brugh, Samuel Brinkley, Ronald Fisher, and Susan Schlonsky; includes School and Camp Information, and ad for an Electric Motor, and Solution: What Would You Do? |
| Comic Story | He Fought Against Odds (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of Hugh Mulzac, the first American of African descent to command an United States vessel, serving in the Merchant Marines. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Military |
| Characters | Hugo Mulzac |
| Notes | Hugo Mulzac (1886 - 1971) |
| Comic Story | Kidnapped Millionaire (1.5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kidnap victim gives clues to the detectives. |
| Feature | What Would You Do? |
| Script | Louis Wolfe |
| Genre | Crime |
| Notes | Louis Wolfe, worked for the New York City School System. |
| Comic Story | Part IV: The Rubber Industry (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The history of Rubber from 1493 on. |
| Feature | American Adventures in Industry |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Characters | Christopher Columbus (cameo); Charles Goodyear (cameo) |
| Notes | 4th in series |
| Text Article | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | My Most Interesting True Experience |
| Script | Jimmy Stewart [as James Stewart] (credited) |
| Pencils | ? (illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Characters | Jimmy Stewart |
| First Line | As long as I have reason to lift my right arm... |
| Notes | Written by Jimmy Stewart (1908 - 1997), actor. |
| Comic Story | Underwater Rescue (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Norman Putnam with friends rescued a woman and child from a burning boat in Lake DeRuyter, NY, and became the third Boy Scout to receive the Gold Honor Medal With Crossed Palms. |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Characters | Norman Putnam |
| Notes | Norman Putman (1930- ) of Syracuse NY, rescued Zoe Ann Fuggle on July 15, 1945. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
