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Issue Details

Issue	#2
Published	December 1941
Frequency	Quarterly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Richard Hughes (uncredited)

Cover Details

Characters	Columbia
Genre	fact
Pencils	Alex Schomburg
Inks	Alex Schomburg

1 page Talks With The Editor text article "The American Tradition"

Synopsis	"We live in a world at war."... "Read REAL LIFE COMICS to ready yourself for the days ahead-..."
Script	Richard Hughes ?
Letters	Typeset

15 page story "The Story of Tyranny"

Characters	Billy; Columbia; Caligua; Cassius Chaerea; Velasquez; Hernando Cortez; Montezuma; Guatimozin; Diego; Ivan the Terrible; Toussaint L'Ouverture; Napoleon; General Leclerc; Dessalines; Henri Christophe
Synopsis	The story of tryants.
Genre	Real Fact
Script	G. L. Evans
Pencils	August Froehlich [as A. M. Froehlich]
Inks	August Froehlich
Letters	Ed Hamilton

11 page story "Sir Francis Drake Ruler of the Sea"

Characters	Sir Francis Drake; Queen Elizabeth I; Tom Moone; John Oxeham
Letters	Ed Hamilton

4 page story General "Billy" Mitchell

Characters	"Billy" Mitchell
Synopsis	General Mitchell believed that planes are important in war.
Pencils	Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Inks	Maurice Gutwrith
Letters	Ed Hamilton

10 page story "Richard The Lion-Hearted"

Characters	Richard The Lion-Hearted; Albert; Caruthers; Blondel; Mighty Saladin; Phillip Augustus; Duke Leopold; John the Evil
Genre	Fact
Script	W. B. Smith (signed)
Pencils	W. B. Smith (signed)
Inks	W. B. Smith
Letters	Ed Hamilton

6 page story "The Life of Woodrow Wilson"

Characters	Thomas Woodrow Wilson; Ellen Wilson; Archduke Francis of Austria
Genre	Fact
Letters	Ed Hamilton

5 page story "Heroes of the R.A.F."

Characters	"Pat" Christie
Synopsis	(June 1940) Christie in an unarmed plane attacked enemy's plane forcing it to crash land. (September 1940) Christie crashed and forced to return to recoup in Canada.
Script	William E. Rowland ?
Pencils	William E. Rowland
Inks	William E. Rowland
Letters	Ed Hamilton
Notes	George Patterson "Pat" Christie (October 1917 - July 1942)

2 page A True Story text story "Light of Liberty"

Genre	Fact
Script	Charles S. Strong
Letters	Typeset; ?

11 page story "The Black Hawk War"

Characters	Black Hawk; Abraham Lincoln; Ann Rutledge (as "Anne"); William Berry; General Atkinson; Red Bird
Synopsis	Black Hawk meets Abraham Lincoln in battle.
Genre	Fact
Letters	Ed Hamilton

1 page American Crusader promo (ad from the publisher) "Danger Calls the American Crusader into Action!"

Characters	American Crusader
Synopsis	first appearance to be in August #19 of Thrilling Comics.
Genre	Superhero
Letters	Ed Hamilton
Notes	House ad for August issue of the monthly Thrilling, appearing in the December quarterly issue of Real Fact; suggesting that these two issues appeared in the same month (circa June 1941).