True Comics
#49
(May-June 1946)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1946-05-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- True Comics Inc.
- Editing
- Harold C. Field; Ralph O. Ellsworth (art director); Betty F. Jacobson (managing editor); Dorothea Filosa (assistant art director); Helen R. Ochs (production manager); George J. Hecht (president, publisher); Karl S. Bernhardt (senior advisory editor); George H. Gallup (senior advisory editor); Frederick G, Hochwalt [as The Very Rev. Monsignor Frederick G. Hochwalt] (senior advisory editor); Arthur T. Jersild (senior advisory editor); Daniel C. Knowlton (senior advisory editor); Clara Savage Littledale (senior advisory editor); Rudolf Modley (senior advisory editor); David S. Muzzey (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)
Issue Notes
Publication office: 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago 39, Illinois.
Executive and editorial office: 52 Vanderbilt Ave., 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 B20338.
[no title indexed]
Smoky / advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- ? (ad copy)
- Pencils
- ? (photographs); ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (photographs); ? (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On the screen at last...
- Characters
- Clint Barkley (photo of Fred MacMurray); Julie Richards (photo of Anne Baxter)
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Advertisement for 20th Century Fox movie "Smoky" starring Fred MacMurray and Anne Baxter.
[no title indexed]
The Secret Warriors / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One of the most dramatic stories to come out of the war...
- Genre
- history; spy
- Characters
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt; William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan; Joe; unnamed trainee
Indexer Notes
First of a series. Office of Strategic Services.
Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn.
Smoking Fists
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- history; western-frontier
- Characters
- Tom J. Smith; Mayor Henry; Wyoming Frank; Big Hank; unnamed saloon keeper
- Synopsis
- Abilene's new marshal won't carry a gun.
[no title indexed]
How It Got Its Name / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let us send the minister to Boston to fill out the papers.
- Genre
- history
- Synopsis
- A song inspires the name for the town of Bangor, Maine.
[no title indexed]
Great Hoaxes / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- About thirty-five years ago, a group of college pranksters...
- Genre
- history
- Characters
- Adrian; Mayor of Cambridge; Horace; unnamed admiral; unnamed students
- Synopsis
- Trinity college students pretend to be the Sultan of Zanzibar and his entourage to trick the Mayor of Cambridge. They later pull the same trick as the Emperor of Abyssinia and trick an Admiral of the British Royal Navy.
Battle of the Beard
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joseph Palmer; unnamed townspeople of Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson; Jefferson Davis; Abraham Lincoln; Ulysses S. Grant; George Armstrong Custer; Robert E. Lee
- Synopsis
- The right to whiskers in 1830s Massachusetts.
Mel Ott
Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- biography; sports
- Characters
- Mel Ott
Indexer Notes
Advertisement biography of baseball player Mel Ott to promote Wheaties breakfast cereal.
Chapter VIII
Cavalcade of England / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Joseph H. Park
- Pencils
- Charles Raab ?
- Inks
- Charles Raab
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Synopsis
- Chapter 8 covering British history from 1930 to 1946 AD.
Indexer Notes
Last in a series.
Joseph H. Park is listed as a Professor of History at New York University.
Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn.
Farewell Symphony
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Synopsis
- Creation of the "Farewell" symphony.
Sizzling Southpaw
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Richard "Rube" Marquard
- Synopsis
- The baseball career of baseball pitcher Richard "Rube" Marquard.
- Reprints
-
in True Comics (Parents' Magazine Press, 1941 series) #84 (August 1950)
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- Keywords
- Baseball pitcher
[no title indexed]
What Would You Do? / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The early American pioneers faced many dangers in their westward trek...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Captain John; unnamed pioneers
- Synopsis
- The wagon train is about to be stampeded by a herd of buffalo, what will Captain John do?
Indexer Notes
Louis Wolfe is listed as being of the New York City School System.
Puzzle-story where the answer to the problem presented is found on the "Truly Comic" page.
Brief Reviews of Films You Will Want to See
True's Movie Guide / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Chester Hooton (photo of Bob Hope; Duke Johnson (photo of Bing Crosby)
- Synopsis
- Brief reviews of the movies Abilene Town, Road to Utopia, Tars and Spars, Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, and What Next, Corporal Hargrove?.
Nisei Hero
comic story / 4.5 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Ben Kuroki; Fred Kuroki
- Synopsis
- Fred Kuroki overcomes the racism he encounters as a Japanese-American to earn three Distinguished Flying Crosses for his combat tours in Europe and the Pacific theaters of World War II.
Indexer Notes
True Comics subscription coupon at the bottom 1/4 of pages 4 and 5 of this story.
Want Extra Money?
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Promotional advertisement for earning extra money for having friends submit this coupon for subscriptions to True Comics.
Promo is on the bottom quarter of pages 4 and 5 of the "Nisei Hero" story.
[no title indexed]
How Industry Serves the Nation / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The story of the bicycle begins with the 'Hobby Horse'...
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- A brief history of the bicycle.
[no title indexed]
Truly Comic! / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Reader submitted jokes and gags.
Indexer Notes
Jokes and gags submitted by Curtis Van Etten (Mendota, Illinois), Dorene Nemer (Brandywine, West Virginia), Peter Zambito (Brooklyn, New York), Dorothea Orne (Stockholm, Wisconsin), Keith Charles (Brookdale, Manitoba), Morris Goldberg (Forest Hills, New York), John Gostanian (Lawrence, Massachusetts), Peter Jones (McIntosh, South Dakota), Dolores Brown (Yuba City, California), Sarah Tallamy (Albany, New York), Arthur Zuckerman (Brooklyn, New York), Phyllis Philipsen (Lincoln, Nebraska), David Towns (Orange, California), Vally Jane Howley (Wallace, Idaho); George Burritt (Stratford, Connecticut), Norma Nicase (Pittsburgh, Kansas), George Maclean (Lewiston, Maine), Robert Guerin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island), Ann Davison (New York, New York), Margaret Wilkins (Sycamore, Oregon), Joseph Dunn (Trenton, New Jersey), and James (Jas.) Moruin Beall (Albuquerque, New Mexico).
These pages also includes the answer to the puzzle-story "What Would You Do?": advertisement for Flight Jacket Insignias from Insignia Mart of New York, New York; and where to write to for school and camp information from Parents' Magazine.
Lucie to the Rescue
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Lucie Aubrac; Mr. Aubrac; unnamed Germans; unnamed French; unnamed Allied prisoners
- Synopsis
- Biography of Lucie Aubrac with the French underground during World War II.
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn.
These Are Your Magazines!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Promotional advertisement for subscriptions of publications by Parents' Magazine Press, Inc. Includes pictures of True Comics #46 (Winter 1945), Calling All Girls #43 (October - November 1945), Polly Pigtails #1 (January 1946), Calling All Boys (mock-up cover, not reflective of any actual issue), True Aviation Picture-Stories #11 (January 1946), Sport Stars (mock-up cover, not reflective of any actual issue), and Calling All Kids #1 (December 1944 - January 1945).
Heaven on the House
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Captain Frank Lillyman (101st Airborne, U.S. Army); Jane Lillyman (Frank's wife); Susan Lillyman (child); two unnnamed Lillyman sons; unnamed hotel clerk; unnamed hotel manager
- Synopsis
- Frank Lillyman are treated to dream package at the Statler Hotel in New York City.
[no title indexed]
"Pepsi" the Pepsi-Cola Cop / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Is a track meet, the same as horse meat, Pepsi?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Pepsi; Feedbag (a horse); unnamed police partner; unnamed jockey
- Synopsis
- Pepsi and his partner capture the jockey doping horses.
Indexer Notes
Advertisement in comic format for Pepsi-Cola featuring the Pepsi-Cola Cop.
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0.
Truth Is Stranger and a Thousand Times More Thrilling Than Fiction
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1.
["On the screen at last..."]
Smoky -
2.
["One of the most dramatic stories to come out of the war..."]
The Secret Warriors -
3.
Smoking Fists
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4.
["Let us send the minister to Boston to fill out the papers."]
How It Got Its Name -
5.
["About thirty-five years ago, a group of college pranksters..."]
Great Hoaxes -
6.
Battle of the Beard
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7.
Mel Ott
Wheaties -
8.
Chapter VIII
Cavalcade of England -
9.
Farewell Symphony
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10.
Sizzling Southpaw
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11.
["The early American pioneers faced many dangers in their westward trek..."]
What Would You Do? -
12.
Brief Reviews of Films You Will Want to See
True's Movie Guide -
13.
Nisei Hero
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14.
Want Extra Money?
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15.
["The story of the bicycle begins with the 'Hobby Horse'..."]
How Industry Serves the Nation -
16.
[no title indexed]
Truly Comic! -
17.
Lucie to the Rescue
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18.
These Are Your Magazines!
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19.
Heaven on the House
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20.
["Is a track meet, the same as horse meat, Pepsi?"]
"Pepsi" the Pepsi-Cola Cop -
21.
It's on the Way Back...to You
Beech-Nut Gum -
22.
Free 150 Power Microscope
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Michael Hoskin
- Dan Kocher
- Edgar Loftin
- Mike Nielsen
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