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Issue: True Comics #55 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1946
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Issues: #55 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: 19 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harold C. Field; Jack De Simone (managing editor); 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); Arthur T. Jersild (senior advisory editor); David S. Muzzey (senior advisory editor); Clara Savage Littledale (senior advisory editor); Frederick G, Hochwalt [as The Very Rev. Monsignor Frederick G. Hochwalt] (senior advisory editor); Daniel C. Knowlton (senior advisory editor); Rudolf Modley (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 Avenue, New York 17, New York.
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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

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): True Comics
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Unity of Arms

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Genres: military, non-fiction
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Creation of Department of Defense
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Great Hoaxes

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Genres: non-fiction
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Chapter 7

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Genres: espionage, non-fiction, war
Feature(s): The Secret Warriors
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[untitled]

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): How Industry Serves the Nation
First Line: Centuries ago plows were made of crooked sticks...
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Seagoing Santa

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Genres: military, non-fiction
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Disclose Notes: Christmas 1942 on U.S.S. Samuel Chase at Gibraltar.
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Career in Canvas

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Genres: non-fiction, sports
Character(s): Mickey Walker
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): True's Movie Guide
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Disclose Notes: Shares page with third page advertisements.

Movie reviews of Holiday in Mexico; Home, Sweet Homicide; and I've Always Loved You.
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Rebels in the North

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Bank robbers for the Confederate cause
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Writer(s): Louis Wolfe
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): What Would You Do?
First Line: The curator's duties in a zoo are not all tame...
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): George Baker
Penciller(s): George Baker
Inker(s): George Baker
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): George Baker
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Feature(s): The Sad Sack
Character(s): Sad Sack
First Line: Welcome Soldier
Synopsis: Sad Sack returns from the war to find places closed, sold out, and no place to sleep. Instead he makes due with the welcome sign as a street blanket.
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Disclose Notes: First appearance of The Sad Sack in standard comic book format. Sad Sack cartoons were previously printed in The Sad Sack (Simon and Schuster, 1944 series), The New Sad Sack (Simon and Schuster, 1946 series) hardcovers, and in The Sad Sack (Armed Forces Edition, 1945) oblong paperback.

The cartoons include an editorial called "Operation Snafu," reminding readers to continue supporting the needs of military personnel even though the war had ended.
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Kansas City

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Cities of Destiny
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Second in series.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Graham Hunter
Penciller(s): Graham Hunter (signed)
Inker(s): Graham Hunter (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Graham Hunter ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): "Pepsi" ...The Pepsi-Cola Cop
Character(s): Pepsi; Peter; Bozo (a gorilla); unnamed caretaker
First Line: Help! Help!! Bozo's Escaping!
Synopsis: Bozo escapes from his cage and Pepsi needs to drink Pepsi-Cola to give him the ability to recapture him.
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement done in comic format, for Pepsi-Cola soft drink from Pepsi-Cola Company.

Copyright 1946 by Pepsi-Cola Company.
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Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Truly Comic!
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Pages: 1.8
Disclose Notes: Reader submitted jokes and gags.
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Elliott A. Caplin
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.2
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Gallant Steeds

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Genres: nature, non-fiction
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Horses
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Lou Little

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
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Genres: non-fiction, sports
Feature(s): Wheaties Breakfast of Champions
Character(s): Lou Little
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement done in comic format for Wheaties breakfast cereal from General Mills, Inc. Cartoons focus on Lou Little, champion college football coach for Columbia Unversity.
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Yosemite National Park

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): How It Got Its Name
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Winged Prophet

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Genres: non-fiction
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Pages: 4

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