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| 1st Comic Book Appearance of Sad Sack, page 32 |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Cover | Truth Is Stranger and a Thousand Times More Thrilling Than Fiction |
| Featuring | True Comics |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | Unity of Arms (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Military |
| Notes | Creation of Department of Defense |
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| Comic Story | Great Hoaxes (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | Chapter 7 (6 pages) |
| Featuring | The Secret Warriors |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Spy; War |
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| Featuring | How Industry Serves the Nation |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | Seagoing Santa (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Military |
| Notes | Christmas 1942 on U.S.S. Samuel Chase at Gibraltar. |
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| Comic Story | Career in Canvas (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Sports | Characters: Mickey Walker |
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| Featuring | True's Movie Guide |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | 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. |
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| Comic Story | Rebels in the North (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History |
| Notes | Bank robbers for the Confederate cause |
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| Featuring | What Would You Do? |
| Credits | Script: Louis Wolfe |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Synopsis | Sad Sack returns from the war to find places closed, sold out, and no place to sleep. Instead he makes due with the welcome sign as a street blanket. |
| Featuring | The Sad Sack |
| Credits | Script: George Baker | Pencils: George Baker | Inks: George Baker | Letters: George Baker |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Sad Sack |
| Notes | First appearance of The Sad Sack in standard comic book format. Sad Sack cartoons were previously printed in The Sad Sack (Simon and Schuster, 1944 series), The New Sad Sack (Simon and Schuster, 1946 series) hardcovers, and in The Sad Sack (Armed Forces Edition, 1945) oblong paperback.
The cartoons include an editorial called "Operation Snafu," reminding readers to continue supporting the needs of military personnel even though the war had ended. |
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| Comic Story | Kansas City (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Cities of Destiny |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Second in series. |
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| Synopsis | Bozo escapes from his cage and Pepsi needs to drink Pepsi-Cola to give him the ability to recapture him. |
| Featuring | "Pepsi" ...The Pepsi-Cola Cop |
| Credits | Script: Graham Hunter | Pencils: Graham Hunter (signed) | Inks: Graham Hunter (signed) | Letters: Graham Hunter? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pepsi; Peter; Bozo (a gorilla); unnamed caretaker |
| Notes | Advertisement done in comic format, for Pepsi-Cola soft drink from Pepsi-Cola Company.
Copyright 1946 by Pepsi-Cola Company. |
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| Featuring | Truly Comic! |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Reader submitted jokes and gags. |
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| Credits | Script: Elliott A. Caplin | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Gallant Steeds (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Animal |
| Notes | Horses |
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| Advertisement | Lou Little (1 page) |
| Featuring | Wheaties Breakfast of Champions |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
| Content | 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. |
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| Comic Story | Yosemite National Park (1 page) |
| Featuring | How It Got Its Name |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | Winged Prophet (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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