True Comics
#2
(June 1941)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-04-11
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Parents' Institute Inc.
- Editing
- David T. Marke
Issue Notes
U.S Producer No. 1
comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- August M. Froehlich (signed, last page)
- Inks
- August M. Froehlich (signed, last page)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Bill Knudsen (March 25, 1879 - April 27, 1948); Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 - April 1, 1947); President Franklin D. Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945)
- Synopsis
- Biography of Bill Knudsen, Director Office of Production Management for President Roosevelt.
Indexer Notes
Writer credit was determined by textual analysis by Lou Mougin to be Patricia Highsmith. Now listed as unknown.
Joan Schenkar, writer of the Highsmith biography, "The Talented Miss Highsmith," worked with Highsmith's notebooks, now in possession of the Swiss Literary Archives, and in them, Highsmith did not start working on comics until after she graduated from Barnard College. She joined the Sangor-Pines shop in December, 1942, meaning that no credits before early 1943 can be attributed to Patricia Highsmith (as reported by Ken Quattro on 22 March 2016 in the Comics History Exchange on Facebook).
Father of Canada
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Samuel de Champlain (1575 - December 25, 1635); Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu (September 9, 1585 - December 4, 1642)
- Synopsis
- Biography of the French explorer Samuel de Champlain.
Zebulon Pike
Frontier Fighters / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography; western-frontier
- Characters
- Zebulon Montgomery Pike Jr. (January 5, 1779 - April 27, 1813)
- Synopsis
- Biography of Zebulon Pike, who discovered the source of the Mississippi River and also explored much of the southwest United States.
The Battle of Waterloo
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Napoleon Bonaparte (August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821); Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (May 1, 1769 - September 14, 1852); Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher (December 16, 1742 - September 12, 1819); Michel Ney, 1st Duc d'Elchingen, 1st Prince de la Moskowa (January 10, 1769 - December 7, 1815)
- Synopsis
- The story of the Battle of Waterloo.
Wizard of Nature
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 - April 11, 1926)
- Synopsis
- Biography of scientist and botanist Luther Burbank.
Sea War: Fighting Ships of Leading Nations
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; war
- Synopsis
- Details of the fighting ships of the U.S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
The Story of the Red Cross
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Everett [as William Everett] (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett [as William Everett] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- non-fiction; war
- Characters
- Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 - October 30, 1910); Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910)
- Synopsis
- The story of Jean Dunant and how he came to form the Red Cross.
- Reprints
-
in Real Heroes (Parents' Magazine Press, 1941 series) #4 (May 1942) - in The Bill Everett Archives (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #1 - Amazing Mysteries (December 2011)
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Indexer Notes
Writer credit was determined by textual analysis by Lou Mougin to be Patricia Highsmith. Now listed as unknown.
Joan Schenkar, writer of the Highsmith biography, "The Talented Miss Highsmith," worked with Highsmith's notebooks, now in possession of the Swiss Literary Archives, and in them, Highsmith did not start working on comics until after she graduated from Barnard College. She joined the Sangor-Pines shop in December, 1942, meaning that no credits before early 1943 can be attributed to Patricia Highsmith (as reported by Ken Quattro on 22 March 2016 in the Comics History Exchange on Facebook).
Peter Kelley
Unsung Heroes / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- Peter Kelley
- Synopsis
- Peter Kelley is an "unsung hero" of the west. As a messenger on a stagecoach he fought off many Indian attacks.
Polish Patriot Who Helped Win the American Revolution
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; historical; war
- Characters
- Thaddeus Kosciuszko (1746 - 1817); George Washington (February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799); General John Burgoyne (February 24, 1722 - August 4, 1792)
- Synopsis
- Biography of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish immigrant who fought in the American Revolution and then returned to try to free Poland from Russia.
Indexer Notes
Also includes a ballot to rank the stories in this issue.
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[no title indexed]
True Comics -
1.
Few New Magazines Ever Had Such a Welcome
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2.
U.S Producer No. 1
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3.
Father of Canada
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4.
Zebulon Pike
Frontier Fighters -
5.
The Battle of Waterloo
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6.
Wizard of Nature
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7.
Sea War: Fighting Ships of Leading Nations
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8.
My Greatest Adventure
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9.
The Story of the Red Cross
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10.
Peter Kelley
Unsung Heroes -
11.
Polish Patriot Who Helped Win the American Revolution
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12.
12,000 Boys and Girls Are Now Enjoying This Fascinating Library
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13.
The Tootsie Roll of Honor
Tootsie Roll
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Michael Hoskin
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- John P. Selegue
- Bjorn Wallin
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