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Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) comic books 1949

  • Issue #52
    Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 52

    Painted cover by H.C. Kiefer. Stories and art by Ed Moore, Harry G. Peter, Jimmy Thompson, Bill Everett, Henry Kiefer and Al Williamson. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. After a train wreck, a Red Cross nurse reassures fellow survivors while pinned in the wreckage herself. Stories featuring early art by comics legends Bill Everett and Al Williamson. A boy pulls a playmate from train tracks, and later receives the first Young American Medal of Honor. River Rescue; Men Against the Lake; Heroes; What Teacher Taught Him; Escaping Gas; The Marines Have Landed; Patrolman John Anderson; Rescue Dawn; Comrades in Death; Double Duty; The Brave Tenderfoot; Ingenuity Cheats the Flames; Double Trouble; Red Cross Heroine Sally Ann Ortega; A Miracle on the River; Race Against Death; Two Time Hero. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #53
    Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 53

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    Painted cover by H.C. Kiefer. Stories and art by Ed Moore, A. Thompson, and Alfonso Greene. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. A man is trapped in a deep well after cement pipes collapse on him. A weightlifter prevents a collapsing tent pole from injuring circus patrons. Teen boys extinguish a house fire. Inferno!; Once A Hero; Life vs Death; Follow the Leader; Rescue from a Well Hole; River Rescuers Inc; Rescued Too Late; Four Lives To His Credit!; Big Top Hero; Not a Chance!; Undertow; Boy Hero; Chills for Bonny; Twin Heroes; Excitement Plus; Fire; Where-There's Smoke...There's Fire. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #54
    Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 54

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    Painted cover by A. Thompson. Stories and art by Ed Moore and Phil Berube. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. A teen makes a dangerous leap from a bridge to save a drowning man; A cartoonist saves a woman from a shark attack; A passing spectator rescues a firefighter from a burning building. Plunge for Life; Death Trap; Mile a Minute Rescue; Without Hesitation; Human Torch; Perilous Rescue; The Hero in the Wings; Gold Medals for Boy Heroes; Joey Oakes; Inferno; Harry Greb; Reel Life Rescue; The Lifesaver Who Couldn't Swim; Kate Shelley Stops the Limited; The Blanket Rescue; Houseboat Heroines; Citizen Saves Fireman; Life Saving Scout; Courage Conquers Fear. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #55
    Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 55

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    Painted cover by A. Thompson. Stories and art by Ed Moore, A. Thompson and Phil Berube. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. Gag cartoonist Art Helfant becomes a hero on the battlefield during World War I. A woman rescues her baby from a burning house. A man is struck by a runaway truck after pushing his kids out of danger. Her Babys Life at Stake; Down for the Last Time; Where There's Smoke; Life's Blood; Scout Training Saves a Life; The Fire Backfired; Runaway Truck; Teenage Heroine; Hero Turned Cartoonist; No Greater Love...; Of Such Things Are Heroes Made; S-O-S!; Peril; The Customers Weren't Always Right; The Milkman Delivers!; Whirlpool; Fire at Dawn; Gas Trap; Terror. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #56
    Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 56
    • Paper: Off white
    • File Copy.
    • Label #0911806017

    Painted cover by A. Thompson. Stories and art by Ed Moore, Stookie Allen, Louis Glanzman and Sam Glanzman (credited as Sam Decker). Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. A man races to get his young daughter out of a car stalled on train tracks. An ice-cream vendor sacrifices his life to save kids from a runaway truck. A Red Cross volunteer saves a boy on her way to work, as depicted on the cover. Hallahan Reports; Night of Terror; Child Hero Man Size!; Flaming Peril; Survivor; Seconds to Spare; Flash Fire!; Death Defeated; Acrobatic Rescuer; Dr. Paul Macy, Research Scientist; Young Courage!; Jimmy Day — Fate's Right Hand Man; New York's Gunmen Feared Captain Pat McVeigh; No Greater Glory; Collision; Major Kenneth B. Smith; Jaguar-Man; Task Force Frigid; Walter Schubert's Race with Death; Saved By a American Red Cross Service Volunteer; Date with Danger; Fire and Fury. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $10 New Heroic Comics #56 (Sep 1949; Dell) - Good

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  • Issue #57
    Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 57

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    Painted cover by A. Thompson. Stories and art by Ed Moore, Alex Kostuk, Phil Berube, Augie Scotto and Ruth Harris. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. A teen saves a friend from a frozen river, two decades after his father and grandfather saved another man from drowning; A little girl rescues her brother and herself from a house fire; A focus on the activism of boxing champ Jack Dempsey. A particularly nice painted cover by A. Thompson. Heroes Run in the Family; Icy Rescue; Hooves of Horror; Terror in the Night; Ducking on Duck Island; Soldier Rescues Sailor; Jack Dempsey, Champion of the Ring and Champion of Tolerance!; Child Heroine; The Philadelphia Mission; Riptide; Death Defying Dive; Commended for Public Service; Canyon Rescue; Babysitters Can Be Heroines Too; Smoke; Elevator Firetrap. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.