True Comics (1941 Parents' Magazine Press) 53
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Issue #53
Published Oct 1946 by True Comics Press.$9.40
$7.80
Stories and art by Sam Glankoff, John Daly, Louis Wolfe, Lawrence Dresser, Ernie Schroeder Jack Sparling and Lorence Bjorklund. Cover by Lorence Bjorklund and John Daly. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. An amateur vet who treats sick chickens earns the name "The Wizard of Chickenology;" The early life of champion tennis player Bobby Riggs, long before his famous Billie Jean King match; A pet shop accidentally releases one hundred monkeys into New York City in 1946. Lady of Democracy; Desert Victory; How Industry Serves the Nation; Baseline Bobby; What Would You Do?; Tom Paine and His Mighty Pen; Save Our Forests!; Tomorrow's Glass Auto; The Secret Warriors; Monkey Business on Wall Street; Chick Doctor; Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Sheriff's Secret; True's Movie Guide; Truly Comic! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
