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Issue: True Comics #10 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1942
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Issues: #10 of 84 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagParents' Magazine Press
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Indicia Publisher: The Parents' Magazine Press Division of The Parents' Institute, Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/14/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): William D. Allen; Ralph O. Ellsworth (art editor); Lloyd Jacquet (art editor)
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): True Comics
Character(s): Major General Commandant Thomas Holcomb
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Disclose Notes: Actually, this was Lieutenant General Holcomb. He was advanced one rank, to General, when he retired in 1944. He was Commandant from Dec 1, 1936 to Dec 31, 1943.
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Reaching for a Star

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): George J. Hecht
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Chief of the U.S. Marines

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Major General Commandant Thomas Holcomb; Thomas Holcomb (father); Midshipman (James) Rogers Holcomb (brother); Beatrice (Clover) Holcomb; Admiral Harold Stark (Chief of Naval Operations)
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Inventor of the Telegraph

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Samuel Morse
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The General Wouldn't Listen

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): George Washington
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Exploring from the Air

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Bowling, America's No. 1 Indoor Sport

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Adrift on an Ice Pan

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The Story of Sabu, Boy of India

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Writer(s): ?; Frank Borth (co-plot)
Penciller(s): Frank Borth [as FB] (signed)
Inker(s): Frank Borth [as FB] (signed)
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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Sabu
Synopsis: The story of how Sabu was discovered at his village by filmmakers from Hollywood, leading to his film career.
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Disclose Notes: In a 2006 interview Frank Borth described rewriting this story from its original plot as his introduction to comics: "So, I got my first assignment there to rewrite this stuff, as well as do the illustrations. Those were stories of my humble beginnings." http://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A40849
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He Saved 10,000 Lives, Part 2

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Synopsis: The story of the inventor of parachute.
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Writer(s): Natalie Purvin Prager
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Feature(s): Is It True?
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Iceland, Stepping-Stone Between the Two Hemispheres

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Theodore Roosevelt Out West

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Character(s): Theodore Roosevelt
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Feature(s): True's Movie Guide
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Heroine of the Storm

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The National Anthem

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): James Madison; Francis Scott Key
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Dollar Pullers

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Genres: humorous
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How Good is Your Memory?

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