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Issue: #65
Published: October 1947, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Copyright 1947 by True Comics, Inc. Printed in the U.S.A. Senior Advisory Editors Karl S. Bernhardt; George H. Gallup; Clara Savage Littledale; Rudolf Modley; Arthur T. Jersild; David S. Muzzey; the Very Reverend Monsignor Frederick G. Hochwalt; Daniel C. Knowlton. Junior Advisory Editors Margaret O'Brien; Roddy McDowell; Peggy Ann Garner; Bobby Blake; Darryl Hickman; Joel Kupperman.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	True Comics
Characters:	Larry MacPhail Rin Tin Tin Highwaymen Scotland Yard Men

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Automobile Industry
Featuring:	American Adventures in Industry
Synopsis:	Beginning with Henry Ford, both cars and the technology of manufacturing cars advance to gigantic effect.
Genre:	Non-fiction History
Characters:	Henry Ford Barney Oldfield Charles F. Kettering Repairmen Motorists

Comic Story (4 pages)	Boss of the N.Y. Yankees
Synopsis:	After being wounded in World War I, Larry MacPhail goes into baseball management. His innovative ideas attract fans in large numbers.
Genre:	Non-fiction Biography Sports
Characters:	Larry MacPhail American Doughboys Baseball Fans Professional Baseball Players Pete Reiser Peewee Reese Joe Dimaggio

Comic Story (2 pages)	Composer and Secret Agent
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	A British Secret Agent Develops A Code Written In Musical Notation To Fool The Germans.

Comic Story (1 page)	Chicago
Featuring:	How It Got Its Name
Synopsis:	Researchers learn how Chicago got its name.
Genre:	Non-fiction History
Characters:	French Explorers Indian Guide Chicago Residents

Comic Story (4 pages)	Most Dangerous Passage
Synopsis:	After explorers fail for centuries… some at the cost of their lives... Amundsen navigates the Northwest Passage.
Genre:	Adventure Non-fiction
Characters:	John Cabot Henry Hudson Sir John Franklin Roald Amundsen Godfred Hansen

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)	Winners in Rin Tin Tin Pup Contest
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Characters:	Jeanne Craig O'Rin

Text Article (1 page)
Featuring:	True's News from Hollywood
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Non-fiction
Characters:	Franklin D. Roosevelt

Comic Story (4 pages)	Balkan Escape
Synopsis:	Survivors of a downed airplane evade capture and escape to Allied territory, thanks to Albanian partisans and the British mission.
Genre:	Non-fiction Spy War
Characters:	Nurses Airmen Albanian Partisans German Soldiers British Liaison

Text Story (2 pages)	Truly Comic!
Featuring:	Truly Comic!
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Story of Scotland Yard
Synopsis:	Over a period of a hundred years or so, a highly professional police force develops in London.
Genre:	Non-fiction History
Characters:	Watchmen Bow Street Runners King George III Sir John Fielding Thieves Highwaymen Peelers Sir Robert Peel Bobbies Detectives Saboteurs

Comic Story (1 page)	Strange Travelers
Synopsis:	Facts about the platypus.
Genre:	Non-fiction Nature
Characters:	Ambassador Makin

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