True Aviation Picture Stories (1943) comic books 1944-1946
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Issue #8
Published Jun 1944 by Parents' Magazine Institu.$6.30
Stories and art by Robert Denby, Edd Ashe, Cy Caldwell, Ed Smalle, Willy Ley, Jesse Davidson, Lawrence Dresser, Art Meisner, Sam Glankoff and Jack Sparling. Tales of aerial adventure in the tradition of nonfiction comics vehicle True Comics. An article speculating on moonflight by rocket, then still 20 years in the future; Aircraft designations explained; Dutch test pilot Leegstra manages to put one over on the Nazis during the Occupation. Blitz Over Burma; Taming the Jungle Terror; The Flying Musketeers on a Suicide Mission; Looking at Tomorrow; Planes in the News; What's in a Designation?; Chindits in Action!; Our Hat Is Off; Ferrets of the Skies; Rocket to the Moon; How to Build the Grumman Hellcat; Aviation Extras; Aviation in the Movies; True Aviation's Air Spotter's Guide; Air Shorts; Allied vs. Axis Medium Bombers; Aero Quiz; Dutch Daredevil. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Apr 1945 by Parents' Magazine Institu.$4.49
View scans- Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Slight.
Stories and art by C.R. Smith, Hal Goodwin, Ed Smalle, Richard Dodge, Edward Lawson, Robert L. Scott Jr., Knute W. Flint, Jesse Davidson, Frances B. Audette, Steven Irish, and Jack Sparling. Tales of aerial adventure in the tradition of nonfiction comics vehicle True Comics. US Army General H. H. Arnold discusses the grim prospect of war in the Atomic Age; How to choose an air school; An article by American Airlines CEO C.R. Smith about the future of civilian air travel. They Called Him Mad; High Flying at Low Fares; Flying Is Easy; They Cheated Death; Good-Will and Bad Weather; Choose Yourself an Air School; Sports Take to Air Travel; Girls in the Air; Atomic Age of Air Power; The 202 Is Born; All About Eggbeaters; Propjet; Wanna Buy a Fighter Plane, Mister?; Planes in the News; Our Hat Is Off; How to Build the Waco Glider; Greatest Heroes of the Air; St. Elmo's Flyers; Aviation in the Movies; True Aviation's Air Spotter's Guide; True Aviation Answer Man; On the Double; Balloon Bombs. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
