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TRUE COMICS was begun in 1941 to ""counteract the wild, rowdy superhero comics,"" according to comics historian Ron Goulart (The Comic Book Reader's Companion, HarperPerennial, 1993). The editors were David Marke, a historian, and later Elliot Caplin, a prolific comics writer. True Comics, it could be said, sparked a small genre of non-fiction newsstand comics. REAL HEROES, from the same publisher, lasted 21 issues (1941-1946), and other publishers produced similar titles: Real Life Comics (1941-1952), and Real Fact Comics (1946-1949), for example. True Comics was the most successful, lasting until 1950 and producing 84 issues. You can examine an index to ""True Comics"".

Items in the True Comics collection:

Thumbnail Image	Title	Publisher	Author	Call Number	Description	Available Format(s)
	Title: True Comics Issue 01	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 02	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 03	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 04	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 05	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 06	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 07	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 08	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 09	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 10	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 11	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 13	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 14	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 19	Publisher: Chicago, Ill.: True Comics, Inc. (a subsidiary of the Publishers of Parents' Magazine), 1941-1950	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 20	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 22	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 27	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 29	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 34	Publisher: Chicago, Ill,: True Comics, Inc. (a subsidiary of the Publishers of Parents' Magazine), 1941-1950	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 39	Publisher: Chicago, Ill.: True Comics, Inc. (a subsidiary of the Publishers of Parents' Magazine), 1941-1950	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 41	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 49	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 63	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 70	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: True Comics Issue 78	Publisher: Chicago: True Comics, Inc., 1941 - 1959.	Author(s): True Comics, Inc.	Call Number:  PN6728.1.P3 T7	unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf