True Comics
#34
(April 1944)
- Volume
- 4
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1944-02-29
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- True Comics Inc.
- Editing
- Roy Garn (managing editor); George J. Hecht (president, publisher); Ralph O. Ellsworth (art editor)
Issue Notes
DISTRIBUTOR:
International Circulation Company (listed by its initials, ICC) is the distributor named on the cover.
ON SALE DATE:
On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Volume 39, Number 1. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 623234.
EDITORS:
Page 1, below the indicia, lists the Senior Advisory Editors:
Karl S. Bernhardt (Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada),
George H. Gallup (Director, Institute of Public Opinion),
Arthur T. Jersild (Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University),
Dr. George Johnson (Director of the Department of Education, National Catholic Welfare Conference),
Daniel C. Knowlton (Professor of Education, Social Studies Department, New York University),
Clara Savage Littledale (Editor, Parents' Magazine),
Rudolf Modley (President, Pictograph Corporation),
David S. Muzzey (Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University, Author of "A History of Our Country"and other history books), and Hendrik Willem Van Loon (Famous historian, artist and Author of "The Story of Mankind" and other books).
Junior Advisory Editors:
Janet Cantor (daughter of Eddie Cantor), Gloria Jean, Roddy McDowall, Shirley Temple, Virginia Weidler, and Darryl Hickman (movie star).
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Claude Weaver of the R.A.F.
- Synopsis
- The cover has 4 panels illustrating interior stories taken from the stories.
Indexer Notes
Genre, editor, synopsis, and character appearance added by Craig Delich (February 2006). Cover art identification by the artist's website.
New Commando Machine Gun
advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Advertisement for a "Krak-A-Jap" toy machine gun from Illinois Merchandise Mart.
The Doctor Declares War!
Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- biography; war
- Characters
- Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave
- Synopsis
- Burma Surgeon
Indexer Notes
Feature, genre, and character appearance added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
Champion of Democracy
Wendell Wilke / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Wendell Wilke
- Synopsis
- The story of Wendell Wilke.
Indexer Notes
Feature, genre, and synopsis added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
Thrill Hunter
Claude Weaver / comic story / 3.5 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Claude Weaver
- Keywords
- Royal Canadian Air Force
Indexer Notes
Feature and genre added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
Be Popular - Learn the Newest Dances in 5 Days - or No Cost!
advertisement / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for learning how to dance books from Pioneer Publications, Inc. of New York, New York.
[no title indexed]
Is It True? / activity / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Is it true that the mouth of a volcano...
- Synopsis
- Quiz over trivia.
- Keywords
- trivia
Angel of the Battlefield
Clara Barton / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Clara Barton
Indexer Notes
Feature and genre added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
Brief Reviews of Films You Will Want to See
True's Movie Guide / text article / 0.75 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Brief reviews of the movies: The Desert Song; The Fighting Seabees; Lady, Let's Dance; My Best Gal; and See Here, Private Hargrove.
- Keywords
- celebrity
Indexer Notes
The picture is of Lieutenant Commander William McManus, technical advisor for the movie, The Fighting Seabees.
The Girl They're All Talking About
advertisement / 0.25 page
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for the movie from Republic Pictures, Nobody's Darling.
First in War ...First in Peace, First in the Hearts of His Countrymen
George Washington / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- George Washington
Indexer Notes
Feature added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
Story covers the center spread.
Sabotage!
Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Steve Saunders; J. Edgar Hoover
- Reprints
-
in Special Agent (Parents' Magazine Press, 1947 series) #1 (December 1947)
-
Indexer Notes
Second of a series.
Story title, feature, and genre added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
Story has a note at the bottom of the first page that it was created with the cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and that Steve Saunders is a fictional character designed to represent an "example of the caliber of men who make up...the F.B.I."
[no title indexed]
Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- See! No trouble at all making him open up and say Ah-h-h.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Ad for Wheaties cereal plus a 1-panel gag cartoon.
Indexer Notes
Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
Flak Happy
Lt. Richard H. McGibney / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Lt. Richard H. McGibney
- Synopsis
- A Flying Fortress drops its bombs by accident.
Indexer Notes
Feature, genre, and character appearance added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
Our Good Neighbor, Paraguay
Our South American Neighbors / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Keywords
- editorial
[no title indexed]
Truly Comic / text article / 0.8 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A customer went into a grocery store...
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Jokes sent in by the readers.
Readers who submitted jokes were Bud Kelly (from Winston-Salem, North Carolina), R. Pizio (from Sioux City, Ontario), Arlene Rose (from University Heights, New York), Daniel Remenaugh (from Fablegrove, Illinois), Jo-Ann Parks (from Boston, Massachusetts), Arlene Krause (from Ely, Minnesota), Bill McCarthy (from Milwaukee, Wisconsin), J. Chambers (from Kingston, Ontario), James Hall (from Bradford, Massachusetts), Maxwell Abramson, (from Long Island City, New York), Phyllis Kerley (from Hiddenite, North Carolina), and Irving Watanabe (from New York, New York).
Watanabe is almost certainly the later long-time letterer for Lev Gleason and Marvel Comics.
Genre added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 0.2 page
Indexer Notes
Two classified style ads for model airplanes from the Model Airplane Company and Capitol Model Aircraft both of Brooklyn, New York.
Terror Bound!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; war
- Synopsis
- Crew of a sunken merchant ship in World War II survives eleven days adrift.
Indexer Notes
Genre added by Craig Delich (February 2006).
Free 150 Power Microscope with this Offer
advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for the book Wonders of Living Things from Metro Publications of New York, New York.
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[no title indexed]
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1.
New Commando Machine Gun
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2.
The Doctor Declares War!
Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave -
3.
Champion of Democracy
Wendell Wilke -
4.
Thrill Hunter
Claude Weaver -
5.
Be Popular - Learn the Newest Dances in 5 Days - or No Cost!
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6.
["Is it true that the mouth of a volcano..."]
Is It True? -
7.
Angel of the Battlefield
Clara Barton -
8.
Brief Reviews of Films You Will Want to See
True's Movie Guide -
9.
The Girl They're All Talking About
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10.
First in War ...First in Peace, First in the Hearts of His Countrymen
George Washington -
11.
Sabotage!
Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation -
12.
["See! No trouble at all making him open up and say Ah-h-h."]
Wheaties -
13.
Flak Happy
Lt. Richard H. McGibney -
14.
Our Good Neighbor, Paraguay
Our South American Neighbors -
15.
["A customer went into a grocery store..."]
Truly Comic -
16.
[no title indexed]
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17.
Terror Bound!
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18.
Free 150 Power Microscope with this Offer
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19.
Amazing Forecaster
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20.
Fortified with Energy!
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Michael Hoskin
- Edgar Loftin
- Mark Rudnitski (R.I.P.)
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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