True Comics

    (Parents’ Magazine Institute, 1941-1950)
™ and © Parents’ Magazine Institute

This title boldly promises, ‘Truth is stranger and thousand times more thrilling than fiction!’ Fact stranger than fiction? Yes. A thousand times more thrilling? Not exactly since its narrated using a documentary-style point of view that wrings emotions out of the story. Published during WWII, it feels like news correspondence from the front. Initially, one would expect jingoism or propaganda rallying the home front to stay the course during that fateful time in our nation’s history. Be assured that none of those themes are present since the Axis Powers were politically expedient targets. The principles of democracy should be told with spirit and passion that otherwise would be a labor in vain.
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  • 71
    #71
    May 1948
    Cover: $0.10
    Joe DiMaggio
    1 copy for $31.00
  • 75
    #75
    Feb 1949
    Cover: $0.10
    Special Agent; Adolph Rupp; Floyd Gibbons; Jack Robbins; Jane Wyman; Tommy Dorsey; U.S. State Department
    1 copy for $8.95
  • 84
    #84
    Aug 1950
    Cover: $0.10
    Distributed to subscribers only
    1 copy for $124.99