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Issue: True Comics #40 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1944
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Issues: #40 of 84 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagParents' Magazine Press
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Indicia Publisher: True Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harold C. Field; Beatrice Lewi (managing editor); Ralph O. Ellsworth (art director)
Disclose Notes: Circulation: 548,979 copies (data from Audit Bureau of Circulation via Russ Mahera)
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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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Feature(s): True Comics
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Tito

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Genres: biography, non-fiction, war
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Thomas E. Dewey: Dewey

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Genres: biography, informational
Synopsis: Campaign biography
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Natalie Purvin Prager
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Letterer(s): Typeset
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Feature(s): Is It True?
Synopsis: quiz
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Sidney Franklin: Bullfighter from Brooklyn

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Fisk
Inker(s): Harry Fisk
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Genres: biography, informational, non-fiction, sports
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Art credits identified by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.
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Shark Bait

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Synopsis: Survivors in a lifeboat catch a shark
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Railroads on the March

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Truly Comic!
Synopsis: jokes
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Superfortress

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Genres: aviation, non-fiction
Synopsis: B-29 bomber
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Sparling
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime, non-fiction
Feature(s): Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
First Line: The letters to movie stars were not fan mail...
Synopsis: Eighth of a series
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Disclose Notes: Art credits identified by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.
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Letterer(s): Typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): True's Movie Guide
Synopsis: brief reviews
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Nature's Airmen

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Genres: nature, non-fiction
Synopsis: Birds
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Marie Anne Lagimoniere: Frontier Wife

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Genres: biography, informational
Synopsis: Red River Settlement
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Back-Yard Lifesaver

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Synopsis: How children picking common milkweed pods across the United States helps the war effort by supplying raw material for life jackets and life belts filler. The children's picking brigades were often organized by schools and were active in 25 states and 2 Canadian provinces.
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Disclose Notes: This may have been a PSA instead of a story, as readers were encouraged to contact the Milkweed Division of War Hemp Industries, Inc., Petoskey, Michigan for more information on how to help the war effort.
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Paul Johnson: Lesson Learned

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Genres: biography, informational
Synopsis: Pilot Paul Johnson habitually buzzes airfields, main streets, etc.
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Disclose Notes: biography
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Sea Furies

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Synopsis: British Torpedo Boats off North Africa in WWII
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