Issue: #49
Published: May-June 1946, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: 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)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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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| Cover (1 page) |
Truth Is Stranger and a Thousand Times More Thrilling Than Fiction |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Sam Glankoff | Inks: Sam Glankoff |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
How It Got Its Name |
| Synopsis: |
A song inspires the name for the town of Bangor, Maine. |
| Genre: |
History |
| Comic Story (3 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Great Hoaxes |
| 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. |
| Genre: |
History |
| Characters: |
Adrian Mayor Of Cambridge Horace Unnamed Admiral Unnamed Students |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
Chapter VIII |
| Featuring: |
Cavalcade of England |
| Synopsis: |
Chapter 8 covering British history from 1930 to 1946 AD. |
| Credits: |
Script: Joseph H. Park |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction History |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
Sizzling Southpaw |
| Synopsis: |
The baseball career of baseball pitcher Richard "Rube" Marquard. |
| Genre: |
Biography |
| Characters: |
Richard "Rube" Marquard |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
What Would You Do? |
| Synopsis: |
The wagon train is about to be stampeded by a herd of buffalo, what will Captain John do? |
| Credits: |
Script: Louis Wolfe |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Captain John Unnamed Pioneers |
| Text Article (1 page) |
Brief Reviews of Films You Will Want to See |
| Featuring: |
True's Movie Guide |
| Synopsis: |
Brief reviews of the movies Abilene Town, Road to Utopia, Tars and Spars, Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, and What Next, Corporal Hargrove?. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (photograph) | Inks: ? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Characters: |
Chester Hooton (photo Of Bob Hope Duke Johnson (photo Of Bing Crosby) |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
Nisei Hero |
| 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. |
| Genre: |
Biography |
| Characters: |
Ben Kuroki Fred Kuroki |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
Want Extra Money? |
| Credits: |
Script: ? (promo copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
How Industry Serves the Nation |
| Synopsis: |
A brief history of the bicycle. |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Truly Comic! |
| Synopsis: |
Reader submitted jokes and gags. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
These Are Your Magazines! |
| Credits: |
Script: ? (promo copy) | Pencils: ? (photograph) | Inks: ? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
It's on the Way Back...to You |
| Featuring: |
Beech-Nut Gum |
| Credits: |
Script: ? (ad copy) |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Free 150 Power Microscope |
| Credits: |
Script: ? (ad copy) | Pencils: ? (illustrations) | Inks: ? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
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