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Issue: True Comics #55 Public Domain
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Indicia Publisher: True Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 19 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harold C. Field; Jack De Simone (managing editor); Ralph O. Ellsworth (art director); Dorothea Filosa (assistant art director); Helen R. Ochs (production manager); George J. Hecht (president); Elliott A. Caplin (publisher); Karl S. Bernhardt (senior advisory editor); George H. Gallup (senior advisory editor); Arthur T. Jersild (senior advisory editor); David S. Muzzey (senior advisory editor); Clara Savage Littledale (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); Roddy McDowall (junior advisory editor); Peggy Ann Garner (junior advisory editor); Bobby Blake (junior advisory editor); Darryl Hickman (junior advisory editor); Joel Kupperman (junior advisory editor)
Disclose 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.
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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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Cover, Front
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Title Page
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Truth Is Stranger and a Thousand Times More Thrilling Than Fiction

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True Comics
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Miscellaneous
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Unity of Arms

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military, non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
7
Creation of Department of Defense
Great Hoaxes

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non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
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Chapter 7

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Subject Matter
espionage, non-fiction, war
The Secret Warriors
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

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How Industry Serves the Nation
Centuries ago plows were made of crooked sticks...
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Seagoing Santa

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military, non-fiction
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Christmas 1942 on U.S.S. Samuel Chase at Gibraltar.
Career in Canvas

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non-fiction, sports
Mickey Walker
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

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non-fiction
True's Movie Guide
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Miscellaneous
0.67
Shares page with third page advertisements.

Movie reviews of Holiday in Mexico; Home, Sweet Homicide; and I've Always Loved You.
Rebels in the North

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historical, non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
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Bank robbers for the Confederate cause
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Credits
Louis Wolfe
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Subject Matter
non-fiction
What Would You Do?
The curator's duties in a zoo are not all tame...
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Miscellaneous
1.5
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
George Baker
George Baker
George Baker
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George Baker
Subject Matter
humorous, military
The Sad Sack
Sad Sack
Welcome Soldier
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.
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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.
Kansas City

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Cities of Destiny
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Miscellaneous
5
Second in series.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter (signed)
Graham Hunter (signed)
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Graham Hunter ?
Subject Matter
humorous
"Pepsi" ...The Pepsi-Cola Cop
Pepsi; Peter; Bozo (a gorilla); unnamed caretaker
Help! Help!! Bozo's Escaping!
Bozo escapes from his cage and Pepsi needs to drink Pepsi-Cola to give him the ability to recapture him.
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Advertisement done in comic format, for Pepsi-Cola soft drink from Pepsi-Cola Company.

Copyright 1946 by Pepsi-Cola Company.
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
humorous
Truly Comic!
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Miscellaneous
1.8
Reader submitted jokes and gags.
[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Elliott A. Caplin
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Miscellaneous
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Gallant Steeds

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Subject Matter
nature, non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
3
Horses
Lou Little

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Subject Matter
non-fiction, sports
Wheaties Breakfast of Champions
Lou Little
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Miscellaneous
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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.
Yosemite National Park

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Subject Matter
non-fiction
How It Got Its Name
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Miscellaneous
1
Winged Prophet

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Subject Matter
non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
4

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