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| Date | | Number: 55 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| File size | 51.14mb consisting of 52 pages | Format: EBook | |||
| File name | True_Comics_55_ParentsMagPress_Dec_1946_JVJ_Sooth_Krac.zip | |||
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| Source | This book was scanned from a copy in the JVJ Archive. | |||
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| Additional Information | |
| Name | True Comics 55 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Editing: Harold C. Field; Karl S. Bernhardt (senior advisory editor); George H. Gallup (senior advisory editor); Arthur T. Jersild (senior advisory editor); Frederick G, Hochwalt [as The Very Rev. Monsignor Frederick G. Hochwalt] (senior advisory editor); Daniel C. Knowlton (senior advisory editor); Rudolf Modley (senior advisory editor); Margaret O'Brien (junior advisory editor); Peggy Ann Garner (junior advisory editor); Bobby Blake (junior advisory editor); Darryl Hickman (junior advisory editor); Joel Kupperman (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. Executive and editorial office: 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York 17, New York. |
| Cover | Truth Is Stranger and a Thousand Times More Thrilling Than Fiction / 1 page |
| Feature | True Comics |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Comic Story | Unity of Arms (7 pages) |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Military |
| Notes | Creation of Department of Defense |
| Comic Story | Great Hoaxes (3 pages) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Comic Story | Chapter 7 (6 pages) |
| Feature | The Secret Warriors |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Spy; War |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | How Industry Serves the Nation |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| First Line | Centuries ago plows were made of crooked sticks... |
| Comic Story | Seagoing Santa (2 pages) |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Military |
| Notes | Christmas 1942 on U.S.S. Samuel Chase at Gibraltar. |
| Comic Story | Career in Canvas (2 pages) |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Sports |
| Characters | Mickey Walker |
| Text Article | No Title |
| Feature | True's Movie Guide |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Notes | Shares page with third page advertisements. Movie reviews of Holiday in Mexico; Home, Sweet Homicide; and I've Always Loved You. |
| Comic Story | Rebels in the North (4 pages) |
| Genre | Non-fiction; History |
| Notes | Bank robbers for the Confederate cause |
| Comic Story | No Title (1.5 pages) |
| Feature | What Would You Do? |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Script | Louis Wolfe |
| First Line | The curator's duties in a zoo are not all tame... |
| Operation SNAFU / Sad Sack (1 page) | |
| Synopsis | Sad Sack returns to America to see a "Welcome Soldier" banner in the train station. However, the movie theater and hotel are full (because of all the returning soldiers) and the GI Canteen is closed (because the war is over). Even the park has a "Keep Off the Grass" sign. So Sack ends up sleeping on the train platform, using the "Welcome Soldier" banner as a blanket. |
| Genre | Humor; Military |
| Characters | Sad Sack |
| Script | George Baker |
| Pencils | George Baker |
| Inks | George Baker |
| Letters | George Baker |
| First Line | Welcome Soldier |
| Notes | Advertisement for continuing to donate to the USO, even though the war is over. |
| Comic Story | Kansas City (5 pages) |
| Feature | Cities of Destiny |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Notes | Second in series. |
| Advertisement | "Pepsi", the Pepsi-Cola Cop (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Bozo escapes from his cage and Pepsi needs to drink Pepsi-Cola to give him the ability to recapture him. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Pepsi; Peter; Bozo (a gorilla); unnamed caretaker |
| Script | Graham Hunter Graham Hunter |
| Pencils | Graham Hunter (signed) Graham Hunter (signed) |
| Inks | Graham Hunter (signed) Graham Hunter (signed) |
| Letters | Graham Hunter ? Graham Hunter ? |
| First Line | Help! Help!! Bozo's Escaping! |
| Notes | Advertisement done in comic format, for Pepsi-Cola soft drink from Pepsi-Cola Company. Copyright 1946 by Pepsi-Cola Company. |
| Text Story | No Title (1.8 pages) |
| Feature | Truly Comic! |
| Pencils | ? (illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Humor |
| Notes | Reader submitted jokes and gags. |
| Statement of Ownership | No Title |
| Letters | typeset |
| Script | Elliott Caplin |
| Comic Story | Gallant Steeds (3 pages) |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Animal |
| Notes | Horses |
| Lou Little / Wheaties (1 page) | |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Sports |
| Characters | Lou Little |
| Notes | Advertisement done in comic format for Wheaties breakfast cereal from General Mills, Inc. Cartoons focus on Lou Little, champion college football coach for Columbia Unversity. |
| Comic Story | Yosemite National Park (1 page) |
| Feature | How It Got Its Name |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Comic Story | Winged Prophet (4 pages) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| 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 | |
