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| Date | | Number: 64 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | True Comics 64 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: monthly | Editing: Karl S. Bernhardt (credited) (senior advisory editor); George H. Gallup (credited) (senior advisory editor); Clara Savage Littledale (credited) (senior advisory editor); Rudolf Modley (credited) (senior advisory editor); Arthur T. Jersild (credited) (senior advisory editor); Frederick G, Hochwalt [as The Very Rev. Monsignor Frederick G. Hochwalt] (credited) (senior advisory editor); Daniel C. Knowlton (credited) (senior advisory editor); Margaret O'Brien (credited) (junior advisory editor); Peggy Ann Garner (credited) (junior advisory editor); Bobby Blake (credited) (junior advisory editor); Darryl Hickman (credited) (junior advisory editor); Joel Kupperman (credited) (junior advisory editor) |
| Notes | True Comics, Inc. (a subsidiary of the publishers of Parents' Magazine). Printed in the U.S.A. Publication office: 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago 39, Illinois. (Printer's address, W. F. Hall Printing Company) Executive and editorial office: 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York 17, New York. On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume I, Part 2, Numbers 1 and 2, Periodicals, 1946-1947. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B94529. |
| Cover | Truth Is Stranger and a Thousand Times More Thrilling Than Fiction / 1 page |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Advertisement | American Boys Bill of Rights / Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Advertisement for Daisy Air Rifles and the Daisy Handbook from the Daisy Manufacturing Company of Plymouth, Michigan.. |
| 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. |
| Script | ?; Herodotus (credited) (quotation) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Characters | Richard Fairbanks; Willie Roberts; unnamed mail clerks; unnamed mailmen; John Roberts; Mrs. Roberts (John's mom) |
| Notes | Mail delivery |
| 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. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Math & Science |
| Characters | Othmar Zeidler |
| Notes | Insecticides |
| Publisher advertisement | 2 Big, Thrilling Surprises for Boys and Girls |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Biography; Military |
| Characters | Commodore Uriah Levy; unnamed mutineers; unnamed Navy personnel; Congressman Butler |
| Comic Story | No Title (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | What would you do if you were a ship's captain confronting an oncoming hurricane. |
| Feature | What Would You Do? |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Script | Louis Wolfe |
| First Line | You are the Captain of a heavy cruiser sailing toward a West Indies Island. |
| Notes | Louis Wolfe is listed as being from the New York City school system. Solution listed in the last panel but upside down. |
| Comic Story | Man-Eater at Large (2.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jim Corbett tracks down a man-eating tigress in India. |
| Genre | Adventure; Non-fiction |
| Characters | Jim Corbett |
| Publisher advertisement | Why Not Subscribe to the Best Magazines for Boys and Girls |
| 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). |
| Stan Musial / Wheaties (1 page) | |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History |
| Characters | Prince Grigory Potemkin; Catherine the Great |
| 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. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Biography |
| Characters | Frankie "Sugar Chile" Robinson; Frankie's unnamed parents |
| Comic Story | Masterpiece in Bronze (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cellini's trials and tribulations in creating his bronze sculpture, Perseus and the Gorgon's Head. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History |
| Characters | Benvenuto Cellini; Duke de Medici |
| Text Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Truly Comic! |
| Script | ? (text article); ? (ad copy) |
| Pencils | ? (illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Editing | ? (advertisement) |
| Genre | Humor |
| First Line | As a transport headed for the War Zone... |
| 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. |
| Text Article | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | True's News from Hollywood |
| Script | ? (text article); ? (ad copies) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Editing | ? (advertisements) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| First Line | Shirley Temple turns amazon for a brief moment... |
| 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. |
| Publisher advertisement | You Haven't Seen Anything Yet! (1 page) |
| Feature | True Comics |
| 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 (Parents' Magazine Press, 1941 series) #61 (June 1947). |
| Comic Story | No Title (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Humorous true stories. |
| Feature | People are Comical |
| Genre | Humor; Non-fiction |
| First Line | The New Jersey policeman who gave a ticket to a minister... |
| Advertisement | Kodak Cameras and Film (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | It'll be terrific! |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Advertisement for Kodak cameras and film from the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York. |
| Outwitting the Kidnappers / "U. S." Royal [U. S. Royal; adventure comic ad] (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. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | 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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