True Comics
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True Comics is an educational comic book series published by The Parents' Institute, whose main publication was Parents' Magazine. The series ran for 84 issues, from April 1941 until August 1950, when Parents' cancelled all of their comic book series. True Comics was the most successful, or at least longest-running educational comic book series, and spawned several imitators, including DC Comics' Real Fact Comics. The series embraced the motto of "truth is stranger than fiction" and attempted to demonstrate that children would prefer "real fact" stories over fictionalized ones. By its cancellation in 1950, Parents' had rolled at least 4 of its cancelled solo comics series into True Comics.
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True Comics
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True Comics
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David T. Marke
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Ralph O. Ellsworth
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Cover of True Comics #1, artist unknown.
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August
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1950
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84
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The Parents' Institute
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Monthly, then bi-monthly
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True Comics #1
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April
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1941
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As you all know there are many comic magazines. Originally the comic strips in newspapers and the comic magazines tried to be funny, and in a few cases succeeded. But nowadays most of the comic magazines no longer even try to be funny. They consist largely of exciting picture stories which everyone recognizes as not only untrue but utterly impossible. We are happy to present herewith a new and thoroughly different comic magazine. Lord Byron write many years ago: "T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange--Stranger than fiction". We have adopted as the slogan of True Comics, "Truth is stranger and a thousand times more interesting than fiction!" We are sure that you will agree after reading this issue.
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True Comics
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True Comics is an educational comic book series published by The Parents' Institute, whose main publication was Parents' Magazine. The series ran for 84 issues, from April 1941 until August 1950, when Parents' cancelled all of their comic book series. True Comics was the most successful, or at least longest-running educational comic book series, and spawned several imitators, including DC Comics' Real Fact Comics. The series embraced the motto of "truth is stranger than fiction" and attempted to demonstrate that children would prefer "real fact" stories over fictionalized ones. By its cancellation in 1950, Parents' had rolled at least 4 of its cancelled solo comics series into True Comics.
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5634