Real Life Comics
#33
(July 1946)
Pines,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Visual Editions Inc.
- Editing
- Ned Pines (editor)
Issue Notes
Indexed from scanned copy at http://digitalcomicmuseum.com
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Alex Schomburg (signed)
- Inks
- Alex Schomburg (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; non-fiction
- Characters
- Robert Louis Stevenson; Louis Daguerre; Kate Smith; Clark Gable; Frederick Douglass
Indexer Notes
Central image is an illustration from 'Treasure Island.'
Contents of This Issue
table of contents / 0.5 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
On inside front cover.
Clark Gable
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography; war
- Characters
- Clark Gable; Josephine Dillon; Lionel Barrymore; Joan Crawford; Claudette Colbert; Franchot Tone; Carole Lombard
- Synopsis
- A biography of Hollywood film star Clark Gable, from his youth in Akron to his time studying medicine until deciding to become an actor, his rise to fame in the films 'It Happened One Night,' 'Mutiny on the Bounty,' & 'Gone with the Wind,' the death of his wife Carole Lombard and his overseas service for the Air Force during World War II.
- Keywords
- Akron; California; Hollywood; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Portland
Col. Frank McCarthy
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- August Froehlich (signed)
- Inks
- August Froehlich (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- CC-656
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography; military
- Characters
- Colonel Frank McCarthy
Indexer Notes
Signed at bottom of next to last panel of story.
Robert Louis Stevenson
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Robert Louis Stevenson; Cummy; Fanny Stevenson; Long John Silver; Jim Hawkins; Ben Gunn; Paro; Bachu
- Synopsis
- The life of the famed Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, including looks at his stories 'A Child's Garden of Verse,' 'Travels on a Donkey,' & 'The Silverado Squatters' and his eventual death while living in Samoa.
- Keywords
- California; Casco; Edinburgh; Mount Vaea; Samoa; Scotland
Louis Daguerre Inventor of Photography
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sam Cooper (signed)
- Inks
- Sam Cooper (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- CC-681
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Louis Daguerre
Sir William Napier 'Hero of Castel Novo'
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sam Cooper (signed)
- Inks
- Sam Cooper (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography; military
- Characters
- Sir William Napier
Frederick Douglass
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harley Griffiths (signed as Harley M. Griffiths)
- Inks
- Harley Griffiths (signed as Harley M. Griffiths)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- CC-661
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Frederick Douglass; Daniel Douglass; Winnie Douglass; William Lloyd Garrison; Mr. Hargrove; Abraham Lincoln
- Synopsis
- The life of Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery to becoming free, then using his story to combat slavery itself and finally help induct black men into the army to fight for the Union during the Civil war.
- Keywords
- American Civil War; Nantucket; Underground Railway
Kate Smith First Lady of Radio!
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Kate Smith
- Synopsis
- The life of Kate Smith, popular radio personality and singer.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Let's Get Outdoors!
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2.
Contents of This Issue
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3.
Clark Gable
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4.
Col. Frank McCarthy
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5.
["Help! Help!! Bozo's escaping!"]
Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop -
6.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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7.
Louis Daguerre Inventor of Photography
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8.
Sir William Napier 'Hero of Castel Novo'
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9.
They Shall Make Music
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10.
Frederick Douglass
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11.
Kate Smith First Lady of Radio!
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12.
The Story of the Balloon
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13.
Ambroise Paré Prince of Surgeons -- Surgeon of Princes!
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14.
["Hello Aunt Polly and Uncle Jim -- It's Swell to Come Out to Your Farm!"]
Speedy Wheelers; Schwinn-Built Bicycle
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- Boris Ammerlaan
- Peter Croome
- Michael Hoskin
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