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from the JVJ Collection, soothsayr scans, Krac edits
Issue: #64
Published: September 1947, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Karl S. Bernhardt (credited) (senior advisory editor); George H. Gallup (credited) (senior advisory editor); Clara Savage Littledale (credited) (senior advisory editor); Rudolf Modley (credited) (senior advisory editor); Arthur T. Jersild (credited) (senior advisory editor); Frederick G, Hochwalt [as The Very Rev. Monsignor Frederick G. Hochwalt] (credited) (senior advisory editor); Daniel C. Knowlton (credited) (senior advisory editor); Margaret O'Brien (credited) (junior advisory editor); Peggy Ann Garner (credited) (junior advisory editor); Bobby Blake (credited) (junior advisory editor); Darryl Hickman (credited) (junior advisory editor); Joel Kupperman (credited) (junior advisory editor)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: True Comics, Inc. (a subsidiary of the publishers of Parents' Magazine). Printed in the U.S.A. Publication office: 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago 39, Illinois. (Printer's address, W. F. Hall Printing Company) Executive and editorial office: 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, 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 B94529.
 Comic Contents:
Cover (1 page) Truth Is Stranger and a Thousand Times More Thrilling Than Fiction
Genre: Non-fiction

Comic Story (5 pages) Couriers Courageous
Synopsis: The history of postal delivery and the following of how mail was delivered in the 1940s by tracking the progress of Willie Roberts' letter to John Roberts.
Credits: Script: ?; Herodotus (credited) (quotation)
Genre: Non-fiction
Characters: Richard Fairbanks Willie Roberts Unnamed Mail Clerks Unnamed Mailmen John Roberts Mrs. Roberts (John's Mom)

Comic Story (3 pages) DDT
Synopsis: The history of the discovery of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) and its use during and after World War II by the United States.
Genre: Non-fiction Math and Science
Characters: Othmar Zeidler

Comic Story (5 pages) Fighting Sailor
Synopsis: The life of Commodore Uriah Levy as he struggles to battle antisemitism in the U.S. Navy to rise to the rank of Commodore.
Genre: Non-fiction Biography Military
Characters: Commodore Uriah Levy Unnamed Mutineers Unnamed Navy Personnel Congressman Butler

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring: What Would You Do?
Synopsis: What would you do if you were a ship's captain confronting an oncoming hurricane.
Genre: Non-fiction

Comic Story (3 pages) Man-Eater at Large
Synopsis: Jim Corbett tracks down a man-eating tigress in India.
Genre: Adventure Non-fiction
Characters: Jim Corbett

Comic Story (3 pages) The Fabulous Fraud
Synopsis: The story on how Prince Potemkin fooled Czarina Catherine the Great with phony villages built to create the illusion he had developed the areas under his jurisdiction.
Genre: Non-fiction History
Characters: Prince Grigory Potemkin Catherine The Great

Comic Story (2 pages) Prodigy of the Piano
Synopsis: The story of the discovery of piano progeny Frankie Robinson and his rise to play as an act that helped him play for President Truman.
Genre: Non-fiction Biography
Characters: Frankie "Sugar Chile" Robinson Frankie's Unnamed Parents

Comic Story (3 pages) Masterpiece in Bronze
Synopsis: Cellini's trials and tribulations in creating his bronze sculpture, Perseus and the Gorgon's Head.
Genre: Non-fiction History
Characters: Benvenuto Cellini Duke De Medici

Text Story (1 page)
Featuring: Truly Comic!
Credits: Script: ? (text article); ? (ad copy) | Pencils: ? (illustrations) | Inks: ? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset | Editing: ? (advertisement)
Genre: Humor

Text Article (1 page)
Featuring: True's News from Hollywood
Credits: Script: ? (text article); ? (ad copies) | Pencils: ? (illustration) | Inks: ? (illustration) | Letters: typeset | Editing: ? (advertisements)
Genre: Non-fiction

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring: People are Comical
Synopsis: Humorous true stories.
Genre: Humor Non-fiction

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