| True Comics | |
|---|---|
 Cover of True Comics #1, artist unknown. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | The Parents' Institute |
| Schedule | Monthly, then bi-monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | April 1941 – August 1950 |
| No. of issues | 84 |
| Editor(s) | David T. Marke Ralph O. Ellsworth |
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.[1] By its cancellation in 1950, Parents' had rolled at least 4 of its cancelled solo comics series into True Comics.
- ^ Mitchell, Kurt; Thomas, Roy (2019). American Comic Book Chronicles: 1940-1944. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 115. ISBN 978-1605490892.