Real Heroes (1942) comic books 1942
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Published Mar 1942 by Parents' Magazine Institu.$28.00
View scansStories and art by George J. Hecht, Natalie Purvin Prager and Dan Fanshaw. Biographies in comics form, featuring famous figures as well as heroes of the everyday. Toussaint Louverture leads Haiti to freedom; Native American leader Sitting Bull becomes a symbol; Vaudeville legend Eddie Foy takes the stage with his children, the Seven Little Foys. Can Fishing Be Heroic?; John Paul Jones; Gellert the Loyal Dog of Wales; The Avenger, Major Raoul Lufbery; Toussaint Louverture; Everyday Hero: John D. Craig; Real Heroes Quiz; Sitting Bull; Real Heroes Hall of Fame; Eddie Foy; Snatched From Death; Girl in Command; Glenn Cunningham; Super-Strategist. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Sep 1942 by Parents' Magazine Institu.2 bids
Current bid: $6.00
Time left: 4d 2h 30m- 1/2" Spine split from bottom. Water spotting.
Stories and art by John Daly, Jim Potter, George J. Hecht, Natalie Purvin Prager, August Froelich, Bob Oksner, Ed Smalle, Chad Grothkopf, Ben Thompson, Corrine Dillon, Sam Glankoff, and Jesse Marsh. Biographies in comics form, featuring famous figures as well as heroes of the everyday. Lou Gehrig becomes a champion baseball player for the New York Yankees, before his life is tragically cut short by the nerve disease ALS. Francis Marion's guerrilla tactics against British forces earn him the name The Swamp Fox. Winkie, a carrier pigeon for the RAF, gets help for his crew after their plane crashes. PT Boat Hero Lt. John D. Bulkeley; Swamp Fox Marion; Chief of the Chetniks; Iron Man Lou Gehrig; Winkie; Tanya Russian Girl Guerrilla; Real Heroes Quiz; Moorer Sends an S.O.S.; Real Heroes Hall of Fame; The Blind Man Who Saw; Reel Real Heroes; Commander Ellsberg: Hero of the Sea; Little Devils of China; Custer Makes His Last Stand; Lost R.C.A.F. Patrol; What Kind of Man Is a Hero? 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.