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"".
Titles in this Collection:
- True Comics Issue 01
- True Comics Issue 02
- True Comics Issue 03
- True Comics Issue 04
- True Comics Issue 05
- True Comics Issue 06
- True Comics Issue 07
- True Comics Issue 08
- True Comics Issue 09
- True Comics Issue 10
- True Comics Issue 11
- True Comics Issue 13
- True Comics Issue 14
- True Comics Issue 19
- True Comics Issue 20
- True Comics Issue 22
- True Comics Issue 27
- True Comics Issue 29
- True Comics Issue 34
- True Comics Issue 39
- True Comics Issue 41
- True Comics Issue 49
- True Comics Issue 63
- True Comics Issue 70
- True Comics Issue 78
