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Issue: True Comics #49 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1946
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Issues: #49 of 84 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagParents' Magazine Press
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: True Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/10/1946
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 23 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harold C. Field; Ralph O. Ellsworth (art director); Betty F. Jacobson (managing editor); Dorothea Filosa (assistant art director); Helen R. Ochs (production manager); George J. Hecht (president, publisher); Karl S. Bernhardt (senior advisory editor); George H. Gallup (senior advisory editor); Frederick G, Hochwalt [as The Very Rev. Monsignor Frederick G. Hochwalt] (senior advisory editor); Arthur T. Jersild (senior advisory editor); Daniel C. Knowlton (senior advisory editor); Clara Savage Littledale (senior advisory editor); Rudolf Modley (senior advisory editor); David S. Muzzey (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 Ave., New York 17, New York.

On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume I, Part 2, Numbers 1 and 2, Periodicals, 1946-1947. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B20338.
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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
Credits
Penciller(s): Sam Glankoff
Inker(s): Sam Glankoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photographs); ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (photographs); ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Smoky
Character(s): Clint Barkley (photo of Fred MacMurray); Julie Richards (photo of Anne Baxter)
First Line: On the screen at last...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.

Advertisement for 20th Century Fox movie "Smoky" starring Fred MacMurray and Anne Baxter.
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, historical
Feature(s): The Secret Warriors
Character(s): Franklin Delano Roosevelt; William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan; Joe; unnamed trainee
First Line: One of the most dramatic stories to come out of the war...
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: First of a series. Office of Strategic Services.

Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn.
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Smoking Fists

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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: biography, historical, western
Character(s): Tom J. Smith; Mayor Henry; Wyoming Frank; Big Hank; unnamed saloon keeper
Synopsis: Abilene's new marshal won't carry a gun.
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Pages: 4
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): How It Got Its Name
First Line: Let us send the minister to Boston to fill out the papers.
Synopsis: A song inspires the name for the town of Bangor, Maine.
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Genres: historical
Feature(s): Great Hoaxes
Character(s): Adrian; Mayor of Cambridge; Horace; unnamed admiral; unnamed students
First Line: About thirty-five years ago, a group of college pranksters...
Synopsis: Trinity college students pretend to be the Sultan of Zanzibar and his entourage to trick the Mayor of Cambridge. They later pull the same trick as the Emperor of Abyssinia and trick an Admiral of the British Royal Navy.
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Battle of the Beard

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Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Joseph Palmer; unnamed townspeople of Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson; Jefferson Davis; Abraham Lincoln; Ulysses S. Grant; George Armstrong Custer; Robert E. Lee
Synopsis: The right to whiskers in 1830s Massachusetts.
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Mel Ott

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Subject Matter
Genres: biography, sports
Feature(s): Wheaties
Character(s): Mel Ott
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement biography of baseball player Mel Ott to promote Wheaties breakfast cereal.
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Chapter VIII

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joseph H. Park
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Feature(s): Cavalcade of England
Synopsis: Chapter 8 covering British history from 1930 to 1946 AD.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Last in a series.

Joseph H. Park is listed as a Professor of History at New York University.

Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn.
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Farewell Symphony

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Franz Joseph Haydn
Synopsis: Creation of the "Farewell" symphony.
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Sizzling Southpaw

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Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Richard "Rube" Marquard
Synopsis: The baseball career of baseball pitcher Richard "Rube" Marquard.
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Louis Wolfe
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): What Would You Do?
Character(s): Captain John; unnamed pioneers
First Line: The early American pioneers faced many dangers in their westward trek...
Synopsis: The wagon train is about to be stampeded by a herd of buffalo, what will Captain John do?
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Disclose Notes: Louis Wolfe is listed as being of the New York City School System.

Puzzle-story where the answer to the problem presented is found on the "Truly Comic" page.
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Brief Reviews of Films You Will Want to See

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): True's Movie Guide
Character(s): Chester Hooton (photo of Bob Hope; Duke Johnson (photo of Bing Crosby)
Synopsis: Brief reviews of the movies Abilene Town, Road to Utopia, Tars and Spars, Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, and What Next, Corporal Hargrove?.
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Nisei Hero

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: biography
Character(s): Ben Kuroki; Fred Kuroki
Synopsis: Fred Kuroki overcomes the racism he encounters as a Japanese-American to earn three Distinguished Flying Crosses for his combat tours in Europe and the Pacific theaters of World War II.
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Pages: 4.5
Disclose Notes: True Comics subscription coupon at the bottom 1/4 of pages 4 and 5 of this story.
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Want Extra Money?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promotional advertisement for earning extra money for having friends submit this coupon for subscriptions to True Comics.

Promo is on the bottom quarter of pages 4 and 5 of the "Nisei Hero" story.
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): How Industry Serves the Nation
First Line: The story of the bicycle begins with the 'Hobby Horse'...
Synopsis: A brief history of the bicycle.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Truly Comic!
Synopsis: Reader submitted jokes and gags.
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Disclose Notes: Jokes and gags submitted by Curtis Van Etten (Mendota, Illinois), Dorene Nemer (Brandywine, West Virginia), Peter Zambito (Brooklyn, New York), Dorothea Orne (Stockholm, Wisconsin), Keith Charles (Brookdale, Manitoba), Morris Goldberg (Forest Hills, New York), John Gostanian (Lawrence, Massachusetts), Peter Jones (McIntosh, South Dakota), Dolores Brown (Yuba City, California), Sarah Tallamy (Albany, New York), Arthur Zuckerman (Brooklyn, New York), Phyllis Philipsen (Lincoln, Nebraska), David Towns (Orange, California), Vally Jane Howley (Wallace, Idaho); George Burritt (Stratford, Connecticut), Norma Nicase (Pittsburgh, Kansas), George Maclean (Lewiston, Maine), Robert Guerin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island), Ann Davison (New York, New York), Margaret Wilkins (Sycamore, Oregon), Joseph Dunn (Trenton, New Jersey), and James (Jas.) Moruin Beall (Albuquerque, New Mexico).

These pages also includes the answer to the puzzle-story "What Would You Do?": advertisement for Flight Jacket Insignias from Insignia Mart of New York, New York; and where to write to for school and camp information from Parents' Magazine.
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Lucie to the Rescue

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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: biography
Character(s): Lucie Aubrac; Mr. Aubrac; unnamed Germans; unnamed French; unnamed Allied prisoners
Synopsis: Biography of Lucie Aubrac with the French underground during World War II.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn.
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These Are Your Magazines!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promotional advertisement for subscriptions of publications by Parents' Magazine Press, Inc. Includes pictures of True Comics #46 (Winter 1945), Calling All Girls #43 (October - November 1945), Polly Pigtails #1 (January 1946), Calling All Boys (mock-up cover, not reflective of any actual issue), True Aviation Picture-Stories #11 (January 1946), Sport Stars (mock-up cover, not reflective of any actual issue), and Calling All Kids #1 (December 1944 - January 1945).
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Heaven on the House

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Genres: biography
Character(s): Captain Frank Lillyman (101st Airborne, U.S. Army); Jane Lillyman (Frank's wife); Susan Lillyman (child); two unnnamed Lillyman sons; unnamed hotel clerk; unnamed hotel manager
Synopsis: Frank Lillyman are treated to dream package at the Statler Hotel in New York City.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): "Pepsi" the Pepsi-Cola Cop
Character(s): Pepsi; Feedbag (a horse); unnamed police partner; unnamed jockey
First Line: Is a track meet, the same as horse meat, Pepsi?
Synopsis: Pepsi and his partner capture the jockey doping horses.
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement in comic format for Pepsi-Cola featuring the Pepsi-Cola Cop.
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It's on the Way Back...to You

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Beech-Nut Gum
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Disclose Notes: On inside back cover.

Advertisement for Beech-Nut Gum.
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Free 150 Power Microscope

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

Advertisement for a microscope with the offer of the book Wonders of Living Things from Metro Publications of New York, New York.

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