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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published September 1942
Cover Price .10
Pages 68
Editing G. G. Telfer

Cover Details - "How Jimmie Doolittle Bombed Tokyo]; [Flying Viking]; [Young America Hits the Trail]; [Netherlands East Indies]; [The Lost Colony]; [He Fought For Freedom]; [Cave Nurse]; [Hobby Lobby]; [Three Men on a Raft"

Synopsis Cover consists of four panels illustrating interior biographical stories, taken from those stories.
Genre war

1 page letters page "untitled"

Synopsis Letters page.
Letters typeset
Notes Found on the inside front cover.

6 page General Jimmie Doolittle biography (nonfictional) "He Bombed Toyko"

Characters General Jimmie Doolittle
Genre bio

7 page Roanoke story "The Lost Colony"

Synopsis Historical feature on Roanoke, the "Lost Colony" off the coast of North Carolina.
Genre history; fact

6 page Major Ole Rieistad biography (nonfictional) "Flying Viking"

Characters Major Ole Rieistad
Genre bio

6 page Henry Bergen biography (nonfictional) "Friend of Animals"

Characters Henry Bergen
Synopsis Biography of the founder of the S.P.C.A. [Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals].
Genre bio

4 page Monroe Smith biography (nonfictional) "Young America Hits the Trail"

Characters Monroe Smith
Synopsis Biography of the director of American Youth Hostels.
Genre bio

1 page Is It True? activity "untitled"

Genre trivia contest
Script Natalie Purvin Prager (signed)
Letters typeset

3 page Joanna Stavridi biography (nonfictional) "Cave Nurse"

Characters Joanna Stavridi
Genre bio

7 page The Netherlands East Indies story "untitled"

Genre history; fact

6 page William Wallace biography (nonfictional) "He Fought for Freedom"

Characters William Wallace
Genre bio

5 page Robert R. Williams biography (nonfictional) "The Modest Miracle"

Characters Robert R. Williams
Genre bio

1 page True's Movie Guide photo story "untitled"

Characters Bambi; Gary Cooper (photo); Gene Autry (photo)
Genre celebrity
Letters typeset

4 page Dave Elman biography (nonfictional) "Hobby Lobby"

Characters Dave Elman
Genre bio

7 page Harold S. Dixon; Anthony Pastula; Gene Aldrich biography (nonfictional) "Three Men on a Raft"

Characters Harold S. Dixon; Anthony Pastula; Gene Aldrich
Synopsis Biographies of these three men named above.
Genre war

Half page Truly Comics filler "untitled"

Synopsis Jokes.
Genre humor

Half page 20 Questions activity "untitled"

Synopsis Quiz based on the contents of this issue.
Genre quiz
Letters typeset

1 page Calling All Girls; True Comics promo (ad from the publisher) "untitled"

Synopsis Promotional ads for True Comics and Calling All Girls comic magazines.
Pencils (various)
Inks (various)
Notes On the inside back cover.

1 page Real Heroes; Calling All Girls promo (ad from the publisher) "untitled"

Synopsis Promotional ads for Real Heroes and Calling All Girls comic magazines.
Pencils (various)
Inks (Various)
Letters typeset
Notes On the back cover.