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Issue: Real Life Comics #2 (2) Public Domain
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Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/16/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Hughes (uncredited)
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Alex Schomburg
Alex Schomburg
?
Subject Matter
informational
Columbia; Sir Francis Drake (inset); Woodrow Wilson (inset); Black Hawk (inset); Billy Mitchell (inset); Richard the Lion-Hearted (inset); Pat Christie (inset)
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Miscellaneous
1
The American Tradition

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Richard Hughes ?
Typeset
Subject Matter
Talks With The Editor
"We live in a world at war."... "Read REAL LIFE COMICS to ready yourself for the days ahead-..."
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Miscellaneous
1
The Story of Tyranny

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
G. L. Evans
August Froehlich [as A. M. Froehlich]
August Froehlich
?
Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
informational
Billy; Columbia; Caligua; Cassius Chaerea; Velasquez; Hernando Cortez; Montezuma; Guatimozin; Diego; Ivan the Terrible; Toussaint L'Ouverture; Napoleon; General Leclerc; Dessalines; Henri Christophe
The story of tryants.
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Miscellaneous
15
Sir Francis Drake Ruler of the Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
Sir Francis Drake; Queen Elizabeth I; Tom Moone; John Oxeham
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Miscellaneous
11
General "Billy" Mitchell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Maurice Gutwrith
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Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
"Billy" Mitchell
General Mitchell believed that planes are important in war.
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Miscellaneous
4
Richard The Lion-Hearted

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
W. B. Smith (signed)
W. B. Smith (signed)
W. B. Smith
?
Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
informational
Richard The Lion-Hearted; Albert; Caruthers; Blondel; Mighty Saladin; Phillip Augustus; Duke Leopold; John the Evil
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Miscellaneous
10
The Life of Woodrow Wilson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
informational
Thomas Woodrow Wilson; Ellen Wilson; Archduke Francis of Austria
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Miscellaneous
6
Heroes of the R.A.F.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
William E. Rowland ?
William E. Rowland
William E. Rowland
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Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
"Pat" Christie
(June 1940) Christie in an unarmed plane attacked enemy's plane forcing it to crash land. (September 1940) Christie crashed and forced to return to recoup in Canada.
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Miscellaneous
5
George Patterson "Pat" Christie (October 1917 - July 1942)
Light of Liberty

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Charles S. Strong
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Typeset; ?
Subject Matter
informational
A True Story
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Miscellaneous
2
The Black Hawk War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
informational
Black Hawk; Abraham Lincoln; Ann Rutledge (as "Anne"); William Berry; General Atkinson; Red Bird
Black Hawk meets Abraham Lincoln in battle.
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Miscellaneous
11
Danger Calls the American Crusader into Action!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
superhero
American Crusader
American Crusader
first appearance to be in August #19 of Thrilling Comics.
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Miscellaneous
1
House ad for August issue of the monthly Thrilling, appearing in the December quarterly issue of Real Fact; suggesting that these two issues appeared in the same month (circa June 1941).

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