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Issue: True Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1941
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Issues: #1 of 84 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagParents' Magazine Press
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Indicia Publisher: Parents' Institute Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/19/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): David T. Marke; George J. Hecht (president, publisher); Ralph O. Ellsworth (art editor, Funnies, Inc.); John H. Compton (art editor, Funnies, Inc.); George H. Gallup (senior advisory editor); Gertrude Hartman (senior advisory editor); Arthur T. Jersild (senior advisory editor); Daniel C. Knowlton (senior advisory editor); Clara Savage Littledale (senior advisory editor); David S. Muzzy (senior advisory editor); Dr. Hendrick Willem van Loon (senior advisory editor); Janet Cantor (junior advisory editor); Gloria Jean (junior advisory editor); Shirley Temple (junior advisory editor); Mickey Rooney (junior advisory editor); Virginia Weidler (junior advisory editor)
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 36, 1941, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 488455.
One known online copy has a stamped arrival date of February 21.
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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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Truth is Stranger and a Thousand Times More Thrilling than Fiction

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, historical, informational
Character(s): Winston Churchill
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Pages: 1
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A New and Different Comic Magazine

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): George J. Hecht
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introduction to comic including list of all associate editors.
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World Hero No. 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Harrison; August M. Froehlich
Inker(s): George Harrison; August M. Froehlich
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Winston Churchill
Synopsis: Bio of Winston Churchill.
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Pages: 17
Disclose Notes: Titled "World Hero Number One" on introduction page to comic.
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Famous Failure

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Hendrik Willem van Loon
Penciller(s): Hendrik Willem van Loon
Inker(s): Hendrik Willem van Loon ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: The first attempt to sail north of Russia to China.
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Pages: 4
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Air War: Fighting Planes of Leading Nations

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Nathaniel Nitkin
Penciller(s): Edwin Smalle Jr.
Inker(s): ?
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: The story of men and planes who made military aviation during WWII.
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Pages: 6
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George Rogers Clark

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Daly
Inker(s): John Daly ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, historical, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Frontier Fighters
Character(s): George Rogers Clark
Synopsis: Story of American Revolutionary hero George Rogers Clark.
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Pages: 9
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Yellow Jack: How the Cause of Yellow Fever was Discovered

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harold De Lay
Inker(s): Harold De Lay ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: How the cause of Yellow Fever was discovered in Cuba.
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My Greatest Adventure

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Writer(s): Lowell Thomas
Penciller(s): Bernard Flinton; Harry Ramsey
Inker(s): Bernard Flinton; Harry Ramsey
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Lowell Thomas
Synopsis: Lowell Thomas, world-wide explorer, recounts his greatest adventure flying in a plane over the Andalusian Desert.
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Pages: 2
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The First Naval Submarine

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Logan Reavis
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: The story of Bushnell's Turtle during the American Revolutionary war.
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Pages: 4
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The Marathon Run

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer
Inker(s): Henry Kiefer ?
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: The story of the Battle of Marathon in 500 B.C.
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Simon Bolivar: The South American Liberator

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Michel Roy [Mike Roy]
Inker(s): Michel Roy [Mike Roy]
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Synopsis: The story of Simon Bolivar, father of 5 South American nations.
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Pages: 9
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This beautiful desk for only $1.00

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Letterer(s): typeset
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The Conspirators

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Synopsis: Ad for Nestle's Semisweet chocolate done in comic form. Friends of a girl on a date bake cookies for her man so she can impress him.
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