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True Comics

TRU1 (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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#1

Date: 4/1/1941
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $210.00
No copies available

#2

Date: 6/1/1941
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $105.00
No copies available

#3

Date: 8/1/1941
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $150.00
No copies available

Baseball Hall of Fame

#4

Date: 9/1/1941
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $100.00
No copies available

#5

Date: 10/1/1941
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $100.00
No copies available

Joe Louis

#6

Date: 11/1/1941
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $135.00
No copies available

Baseball World Series

#7

Date: 12/1/1941
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $96.00
No copies available

#8

Date: 1/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $58.00
No copies available

#9

Date: 2/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $58.00
No copies available

#10

Date: 3/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $58.00
No copies available

#11

Date: 4/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $57.00
No copies available

#12

Date: 5/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $76.00
No copies available

#13

Date: 6/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $56.00
No copies available

Natalie Purvin Prager

#14

Date: 7/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $56.00
No copies available

#15

Date: 8/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $56.00
No copies available

#16

Date: 9/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $56.00
No copies available

#17

Date: 10/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $56.00
No copies available

Brooklyn Dodgers

#18

Date: 11/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $56.00
No copies available

David S. Muzzey

#19

Date: 12/1/1942
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $56.00
No copies available

Dr. David S. Muzzey, Natalie Purvin Prager

#20

Date: 1/1/1943
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $101.00
No copies available

#21

Date: 2/1/1943
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $45.00
No copies available

#22

Date: 3/1/1943
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $45.00
No copies available

#23

Date: 4/1/1943
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $73.00
No copies available

Civil War, Ku Klux Klan

George J. Hecht

#24

Date: 5/1/1943
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $70.00
No copies available

May-Jun issue

Theodore P. Bank, Natalie Purvin Prager, David S. Muzzey

#25

Date: 7/1/1943
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $45.00
No copies available

#26

Date: 8/1/1943
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $140.00
1 copy available for $32.00

Natalie Purvin Prager

#27

Date: 9/1/1943
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $45.00
No copies available

George J. Hecht, Natalie Purvin Prager, Feg Murray

Feg Murray

#28

Date: 10/1/1943
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $45.00
No copies available

#29

Date: 11/1/1943
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $56.00
No copies available

#30

Date: 12/1/1943
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $45.00
No copies available

George J. Hecht, Natalie Purvin Prager

#31

Date: 1/1/1944
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $36.00
No copies available

#32

Date: 2/1/1944
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $35.00
No copies available

Natalie Purvin Prager

#33

Date: 3/1/1944
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $35.00
No copies available

#34

Date: 4/1/1944
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $35.00
No copies available

#35

Date: 5/1/1944
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $36.00
No copies available

Natalie Purvin Prager

#36

Date: 6/1/1944
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $35.00
No copies available

Natalie Purvin Prager

#37

Date: 7/1/1944
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $35.00
No copies available

#38

Date: 8/1/1944
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $35.00
No copies available

FBI

#39

Date: 9/1/1944
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $64.00
1 copy available for $22.50

Natalie Purvin Prager

#40

Date: 11/1/1944
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $63.00
No copies available

#41

Date: 12/1/1944
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $43.00
No copies available

Dr. Joseph H. Park, Natalie Purvin Prager

#42

Date: 1/1/1945
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $76.00
No copies available

Joseph H. Park

#43

Date: 3/1/1945
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $35.00
No copies available

Spring 1945

#44

Date: 6/1/1945
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $35.00
No copies available

Summer 1945

#45

Date: 9/1/1945
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $80.00
No copies available

Fall 1945

#46

Date: 12/1/1945
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $83.00
No copies available

Winter 1945

Dr. Joseph H. Park

#47

Date: 3/1/1946
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $105.00
1 copy available for $28.00

#48

Date: 4/1/1946
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $35.00
No copies available

Joseph H. Park

#49

Date: 5/1/1946
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $68.00
No copies available

#50

Date: 7/1/1946
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $93.00
No copies available

#51

Date: 8/1/1946
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $40.00
1 copy available for $7.50

#52

Date: 9/1/1946
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $93.00
No copies available

#53

Date: 10/1/1946
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $69.00
No copies available

#54

Date: 11/1/1946
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $66.00
No copies available

#55

Date: 12/1/1946
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $50.00
No copies available

1st Appearance of Sad Sack (in a comic book)

#56

Date: 1/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $120.00
1 copy available for $16.00

#57

Date: 2/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $83.00
2 copies available from $7.50

#58

Date: 3/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $30.00
No copies available

#59

Date: 4/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $71.00
1 copy available for $25.00

#60

Date: 5/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $86.00
1 copy available for $18.00

#61

Date: 6/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $65.00
1 copy available for $22.50

#62

Date: 7/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $600.00
1 copy available for $390.00

#63

Date: 8/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $69.00
2 copies available from $11.50

#64

Date: 9/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $63.00
No copies available

#65

Date: 10/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $25.00
No copies available

Winners in Rin Tin Tin pup contest named

#66

Date: 11/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $25.00
No copies available

#67

Date: 12/1/1947
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $64.00
1 copy available for $22.50

#68

Date: 1/1/1948
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $93.00
1 copy available for $19.00

#69

Date: 2/1/1948
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $41.00
No copies available

#70

Date: 3/1/1948
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $74.00
1 copy available for $19.00

#71

Date: 5/1/1948
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $45.00
No copies available

Joe DiMaggio

#72

Date: 7/1/1948
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $35.00
No copies available

Jackie Robinson

#73

Date: 10/1/1948
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $150.00
3 copies available from $5.00

Walt Disney

#74

Date: 12/1/1948
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $41.00
No copies available

#75

Date: 2/1/1949
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $58.00
1 copy available for $11.50

U.S. State Department; Jack Robbins; Special Agent; Jane Wyman; Adolph Rupp; Tommy Dorsey; Floyd Gibbons

#76

Date: 4/1/1949
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $64.00
1 copy available for $22.50

#77

Date: 6/1/1949
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $75.00
1 copy available for $26.50

Lou Boudeau, FBI

#78

Date: 8/1/1949
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $52.00
No copies available

Stan Musial

#79

Date: 10/1/1949
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $66.00
No copies available

#80

Date: 12/1/1949
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $165.00
No copies available

Distributed to subscribers only

#81

Date: 2/1/1950
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $195.00
1 copy available for $69.50

Distributed to subscribers only

#82

Date: 4/1/1950
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $80.00
No copies available

Distributed to subscribers only

#83

Date: 6/1/1950
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $80.00
No copies available

Distributed to subscribers only

#84

Date: 8/1/1950
Cover Price: $0.10
NM Guide: $80.00
No copies available

Distributed to subscribers only