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Issue: True Comics #62 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1947
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Issues: #62 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: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Beatrice Lewi; Abraham Schwartzman (executive editor); 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); Arthur T. Jersild (senior advisory editor); George H. Gallup (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); Rudolf Modley (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)
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 offices: 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
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): Fred Harman (Red Ryder, Little Beaver figures) (signed); ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): Fred Harman (Red Ryder, Little Beaver figures) (signed); ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Red Ryder; Daisy Manufacturing Company
Character(s): Red Ryder; Little Beaver
First Line: Get this handy 128 page Daisy Handbook pronto, Partner!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.

An advertisement for the Daisy Handbook (Daisy Manufacturing Company, 1946 series) #1 and the 100 Shot Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine from the Daisy Manufacturing Company of Plymouth, Michigan.
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They Got Their Man!

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Genres: historical, informational, non-fiction
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Pages: 5
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Kilroy Was Here

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
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Sutter's Gold

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Genres: historical, informational, non-fiction
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New York City: Part II

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Cities of Destiny
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Pages: 3
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It's New, It's for You

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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Varsity
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Varsity magazine from Parents' Magazine Press, Inc.
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That Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Glankoff
Inker(s): Sam Glankoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): It Isn't True...
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Disclose Notes: Credit from artist's website.
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Francois At the Bat

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, sports
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Pete Reiser

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Wheaties
Character(s): Pete Reiser
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement done in comic format using Brooklyn Dodger baseball player Pete Reiser to promote the breakfast cereal, Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions from General Mills, Inc.
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[untitled]

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Writer(s): Louis Wolfe
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): What Would You Do?
First Line: When fire threatened his farmhouse...
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Pages: 1.5
Disclose Notes: Louis Wolfe is listed as being from the New York City school system.

Solution listed in the Truly Comic! feature.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): True's News from Hollywood
First Line: A production record was set...
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: News from Hollywood, including mentions of the movies Blaze of Noon, Great Expectations, The Yearling, High Barbaree, Carnegie Hall, It Happened in Brooklyn, High Conquest, Cheyenne, and actors within them.
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Pigeon Hero

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, war
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[untitled]

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Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Truly Comic!
First Line: Nit: How much is five Q and five Q?
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Jokes page from reader's submissions.

Includes the solution to the "What Would You Do?" feature.

Also includes three small advertisements: Trading cards from the Evanston Gift House of Evanstan, Illinois; 16mm trimmed versions of Walt Disney movies from Craftsmans Guild of Hollywood, California; and School and camp information from Parents' Magazine from New York, New York.
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Nancy Merki

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, sports
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Bob Feller

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Popsicle Pete; Popsicle
Character(s): Bob Feller; Popsicle Pete
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: An advertisement including Cleveland Indian baseball pitcher, Bob Feller for the Popsicle Pete Fun Book (Joe Lowe Corp., 1947 series) and Popsicle ice creams.
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Surprised Sub

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, war
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Pages: 2.5
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Why Not Subscribe to the Best Magazines for Boys and Girls

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Subscription coupon for Parents' Magazine Press comics, taking up bottom quarter of pages 2 and 3 (reverse side of coupon) of the story Surprised Sub (totaling a half a page).
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photograph); ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (photograph); ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Kodak
First Line: Hey-who's the genius?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Advertisement for the Baby Brownie Special camera from Kodak.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Arnold, Schwinn & Co.
First Line: A Schwinn-built bicycle is the only bike for me!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

Advertisement for Schwinn bicycle from Arnold, Schwinn & Co. of Chicago, Illinois.

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