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Issue: True Comics #64 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1947
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Issues: #64 of 84 Issues
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Publisher: FlagParents' Magazine Press
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Indicia Publisher: True Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/15/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 19 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): 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)
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.

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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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

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): True Comics
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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American Boys Bill of Rights

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy Manufacturing Company
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.

Advertisement for Daisy Air Rifles and the Daisy Handbook from the Daisy Manufacturing Company of Plymouth, Michigan..
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Couriers Courageous

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?; Herodotus (quotation)
Penciller(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Richard Fairbanks; Benjamin Franklin; Kit Carson; Willie Roberts; unnamed mail clerks; unnamed mailmen; John Roberts; Mrs. Roberts (John's mom)
Synopsis: The history of postal delivery and the following of how mail was delivered in the 1940s by tracking the progress of Willie Roberts' letter to John Roberts.
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Pages: 5
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DDT

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Character(s): Othmar Zeidler
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 2.5
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2 Big, Thrilling Surprises for Boys and Girls

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photograph, Polly Pigtails); ? (illustration); ? (various, Calling All Boys)
Inker(s): ? (photograph, Polly Pigtails); ? (various, Calling All Boys)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promotional advertisement for subscriptions to Polly Pigtails (Parents' Magazine Press, 1946 Series) and Calling All Boys (Parents' Magazine Press, 1946 Series), showing cover vignettes to Polly Pigtails #17 and Calling All Boys #11.
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Fighting Sailor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: biography, military, non-fiction
Character(s): Commodore Uriah Levy; unnamed mutineers; unnamed Navy personnel; Congressman Butler
Synopsis: The life of Commodore Uriah Levy as he struggles to battle antisemitism in the U.S. Navy to rise to the rank of Commodore.
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Louis Wolfe
Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): What Would You Do?
First Line: You are the Captain of a heavy cruiser sailing toward a West Indies Island.
Synopsis: What would you do if you were a ship's captain confronting an oncoming hurricane.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Louis Wolfe is listed as being from the New York City school system.

Solution listed in the last panel but upside down.
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Man-Eater at Large

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, non-fiction
Character(s): Jim Corbett
Synopsis: Jim Corbett tracks down a man-eating tigress in India.
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Pages: 2.67
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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: 0.33
Job Number: TC 64
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 Man-Eater at Large (totaling a third of a page).
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Stan Musial

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Wheaties
Character(s): Stan Musial
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement done in comic format using St. Louis Cardinal baseball player Stan Musial to promote the breakfast cereal, Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions from General Mills, Inc.
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The Fabulous Fraud

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Prince Grigory Potemkin; Catherine the Great
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 3
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Prodigy of the Piano

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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Frankie "Sugar Chile" Robinson; Frankie's unnamed parents; Harry Truman
Synopsis: The story of the discovery of piano progeny Frankie Robinson and his rise to play as an act that helped him play for President Truman.
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Pages: 2
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Masterpiece in Bronze

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Benvenuto Cellini; Duke de Medici
Synopsis: Cellini's trials and tribulations in creating his bronze sculpture, Perseus and the Gorgon's Head.
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[untitled]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Truly Comic!
First Line: As a transport headed for the War Zone...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Jokes page from reader's submissions.

Also includes one small advertisement for school and camp information from Parents' Magazine from New York, New York.
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[untitled]

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Inker(s): ? (illustration)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): True's News from Hollywood
First Line: Shirley Temple turns amazon for a brief moment...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: News from Hollywood, including mentions of the movies Honeymoon, Tycoon, Fiesta, Green for Danger, Life with Father, Indian Summer, and The Perils of Pauline.

Also includes two small advertisements: Trading cards from the Evanston Gift House of Evanstan, Illinois and free poster and information on body building from Cross Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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You Haven't Seen Anything Yet!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): ? (illustration); ? (various, True Comics)
Inker(s): ? (illustration); ? (various, True Comics)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): True Comics
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promotion advertisement for coupon subscription to True Comics. Shows copy of the cover to True Comics #61 (June 1947).
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, non-fiction
Feature(s): People are Comical
First Line: The New Jersey policeman who gave a ticket to a minister...
Synopsis: Humorous true stories.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Kodak
First Line: It'll be terrific!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Advertisement for Kodak cameras and film from the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York.
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Outwitting the Kidnappers

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): "U. S." Royal; U. S. Bike Tires
Character(s): Deputy U.S. Royal; Elm City Bike Club members; unnamed kidnapper; unnamed kidnapped woman
Synopsis: U.S. Royal and Elm City Bike Club rescue a kidnap victim thanks to the control of U.S. Royal bike tires.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

Advertisement in comic format for bike tires from U.S. Royal of the United States Rubber Company.

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