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Issue: True Comics #68 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1948
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Issues: #68 of 84 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagParents' Magazine Press
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: True Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Jack De Simone (credited)
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Character(s): Richard E. Byrd; Special Agent
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Line Forms Here

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for the Parents Magazine Press, Inc. line of magazines for children and teenagers: Calling All Boys, Calling All Girls, True Comics, Varsity, Sweet Sixteen, Polly Pigtails. Varsity and Calling All Girls were non-comics.
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Richard E. Byrd, World's Leading Arctic Explorer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: informational
Feature(s): Hero Of The Year
Character(s): Richard E. Byrd
Synopsis: Story of Admiral Byrd (1888 - 1957),South Pole explorer.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Picked by readers in a poll as the Hero of 1947.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Sparling
Inker(s): Jack Sparling
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Character(s): Steve Saunders; Fred Pair; Ollie Melton; Boy Bandit Kimes; Chick Rogers; J. Edgar Hoover
First Line: Bank robbers thought they fooled the law ...
Synopsis: A bank robbery at Morton, Texas. Steve Saunders is called in.
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Pages: 4
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Gallico the Great, America's Top Sports Writer

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Sparling ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Character(s): Paul Gallico; Jack Dempsy (cameo); Dizzy Dean (cameo); Johnny Weissmuler (cameo); Benny Friedman (cameo); Gar Wood (cameo); Joe Lewis (cameo)
Synopsis: Gallico became a famous sports writer from 1920 to 1937 by getting in close with the champion athletes. He then went on to found the Golden Gloves.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Paul Gallico (1897 - 1976) is best known for his novels "The Snow Goose" and "The Poseidon Adventure", and the non-fiction "Lou Gehrig: Pride of the Yankees".
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Truly Comic!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Jokes sent in by Dorothy Maringas, Nancy Whitmire, Rozella McDonald, Moira Burke, Audra Bayne, Donald Hall, Jack Petlock, Alice Leiva, Raymond Roddam, Eddy Speelman, Tommy Sawman, Bud Lafferty, Edward Shaughnessy, Bernadette Boxer, Evan Confer, John Dittmer, Mary Formby, Carl Durham, Donna Steinback, Anna Bruno, Betty Maddox, Sarah Brugh, Samuel Brinkley, Ronald Fisher, and Susan Schlonsky; includes School and Camp Information, and ad for an Electric Motor, and Solution: What Would You Do?
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He Fought Against Odds

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Subject Matter
Genres: informational, military
Character(s): Hugo Mulzac
Synopsis: The story of Hugh Mulzac, the first American of African descent to command an United States vessel, serving in the Merchant Marines.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Hugo Mulzac (1886 - 1971)
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Kidnapped Millionaire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Louis Wolfe
Penciller(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): What Would You Do?
Synopsis: Kidnap victim gives clues to the detectives.
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Pages: 1.5
Disclose Notes: Louis Wolfe, worked for the New York City School System.
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Part IV: The Rubber Industry

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Genres: informational
Feature(s): American Adventures in Industry
Character(s): Christopher Columbus (cameo); Charles Goodyear (cameo)
Synopsis: The history of Rubber from 1493 on.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: 4th in series
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Jimmy Stewart [as James Stewart] (credited)
Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): My Most Interesting True Experience
Character(s): Jimmy Stewart
First Line: As long as I have reason to lift my right arm...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Written by Jimmy Stewart (1908 - 1997), actor.
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Underwater Rescue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Character(s): Norman Putnam
Synopsis: Norman Putnam with friends rescued a woman and child from a burning boat in Lake DeRuyter, NY, and became the third Boy Scout to receive the Gold Honor Medal With Crossed Palms.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Norman Putman (1930- ) of Syracuse NY, rescued Zoe Ann Fuggle on July 15, 1945.

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