Issue: #64
Published: September 1947, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: 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); Clara Savage Littledale (senior advisory editor); Rudolf Modley (senior advisory editor); Arthur T. Jersild (senior advisory editor); David S. Muzzey (senior advisory editor); Frederick G, Hochwalt [as The Very Rev. Monsignor Frederick G. Hochwalt] (senior advisory editor); Daniel C. Knowlton (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 Avenue, 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 B94529.
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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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Non-fiction |
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American Boys Bill of Rights |
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Daisy Manufacturing Company |
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Comic Story (3 pages) |
DDT |
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The history of the discovery of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) and its use during and after World War II by the United States. |
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Non-fiction Math and Science |
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Othmar Zeidler |
Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
2 Big, Thrilling Surprises for Boys and Girls |
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Script: ? (promo copy) | Pencils: ? (photograph, Polly Pigtails); ? (illustration); ? (various, Calling All Boys) | Inks: ? (photograph, Polly Pigtails); ? (various, Calling All Boys) | Letters: ?; typeset |
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What Would You Do? |
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What would you do if you were a ship's captain confronting an oncoming hurricane. |
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Script: Louis Wolfe |
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Non-fiction |
Comic Story (3 pages) |
Man-Eater at Large |
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Jim Corbett tracks down a man-eating tigress in India. |
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Adventure Non-fiction |
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Jim Corbett |
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Why Not Subscribe to the Best Magazines for Boys and Girls |
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Stan Musial |
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Wheaties |
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Non-fiction |
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Stan Musial |
Comic Story (3 pages) |
The Fabulous Fraud |
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The story on how Prince Potemkin fooled Czarina Catherine the Great with phony villages built to create the illusion he had developed the areas under his jurisdiction. |
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Non-fiction History |
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Prince Grigory Potemkin Catherine The Great |
Text Story (1 page) |
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Truly Comic! |
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Humor |
Text Article (1 page) |
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True's News from Hollywood |
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Non-fiction |
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You Haven't Seen Anything Yet! |
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True Comics |
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Script: ? (promo copy) | Pencils: ? (illustration); ? (various, True Comics) | Inks: ? (illustration); ? (various, True Comics) | Letters: typeset |
Comic Story (2 pages) |
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People are Comical |
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Humorous true stories. |
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Humor Non-fiction |
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Kodak |
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