Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	October 1951
Cover Price	0.15 USD
Pages	36
Editing	?
Notes	The stories in this comic did make history intersting for me as I read them. An actual stamp is pictured then a story is presented concerning the story on the stamp.

Cover Details - "Birth Of Liberty"

Synopsis	"Stamps are a mirror of history. Through the fascination stories depicted on postage stamps we may accompany exporeres ot unknown counties, travel on dangerous missions, learn about our favorite sports, strange customs, savage headhunters, forgotten lore, etc.
Genre	period
Notes	The stories in this comic did make history intersting for me as I read them. An actual stamp is pictured then a story is presented concerning the story on the stamp.

1 page public service announcement "The American Red Cross Carries on. GIVE!"

Colors	B&W
Letters	typeset

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Introduction"

Letters

typeset

6 page George Rogers Clark story "George Rogers Clark Hero of Vincennes"

Genre	bio; period; war; fact
Pencils	H. C. Kiefer
Inks	H. C. Kiefer
Notes	Art ID by Gary Watson, August 2008.

4 page Gyorgy Dozsa story "Gyorgy Dozsa and the Throne of Fire"

Genre	bio; period; fact
Pencils	Ed Goldfarb
Inks	Bob Baer

4 page Abner Doubleday story "Baseball and the Abner Doubleday Myth"

Genre	period; fact
Pencils	Harry Harrison
Inks	Ernie Bache
Notes	Art ID by Gary Watson, August 2008.

2 page filler "Oddities in Stamps"

Genre

fact

4 page The Pony Express story "The Mail Must Go Through"

Genre	period; fact
Pencils	Ed Goldfarb
Inks	Bob Baer

4 page Icarus story "Man's First Flight"

Genre

fantasy

2 page text article "How to Collect Stamps"

Genre	fact
Letters	typeset

4 page story "The Leopard Men"

Genre	period; fact
Pencils	Stephen Kirkel
Inks	Stephen Kirkel?

1 page public service announcement

Pencils	Whitney Darrow, Jr.
Inks	Whitney Darrow, Jr.
Notes	PSA in comic strip-form for Cancer. Sequence added by Gary Watson, August 2008.

1 page public service announcement

Notes

PSA in comic strip-form for Heart Fund. On inside back cover. Sequence added by Gary Watson, August 2008.

1 page public service announcement

Notes

Full page ad for US Savings Bonds. On back cover. Sequence added by Gary Watson, August 2008.