Showing posts with label Parents Magazine Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parents Magazine Press. Show all posts

Friday, October 20, 2023

Frightening Friday Fun CALLING ALL KIDS "Pug and Curly Find Someone to Scare"

In comics, even anthropomorphic squirrels celebrate Halloween...
...as shown in this never-reprinted feature from Parents Magazine Press' Calling All Kids #13 (1947)!
Pug and Curly were an ongoing feature in Calling All Kids, appearing in 23 of the title's 26 issues.
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Monday, March 13, 2023

Monday Madness REAL FACT COMICS "Rookie of the Year" & PICTURE NEWS "California Flash"

For the past few weeks, we presented a fictional tale about a ballplayer facing prejudice...
...today, it's the "real deal" with the guy who broke the racial barrier in Major League Baseball!
The story from DC's Real Fact Comics #14 (1948) presents the story in a straightforward, if slightly patronizing, manner.
The following tale from Parents Magazine's Picture News #4 (1946) by writer/artist Charles Wessel, predates his being called up to the majors.
Note it does contain a couple of racial stereotypes common to the era, and may be NSFW.
There was also an official Jackie Robinson comic book from major comics publisher Fawcett that lasted six issues (longer than most other comics based on real-life sports figures) from 1949-52.
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Digitally-restored and remastered from a scan of the actual original cover!

Friday, October 21, 2022

Friday Fun CALLING ALL KIDS "Pug and Curly Find Someone to Scare"

Though not quite as weird as their book-mate Twinkle...

...anthropomorphic squirrels Pug and Curly were even more long-lived, running for the entire existence of Calling All Kids from #1 to 26!
This tale, BTW, was from the same book as last week's Twinkle story, Parent Magazine Press' Calling All Kids #13 (1947).

Friday, October 14, 2022

Friday Fun CALLING ALL KIDS "Twinkle...Helps on Halloween"

Here's a character you've likely never heard of....

...in a tale from Parents Magazine Press' Calling All Kids #13 (1947).
And, yes, he's an actual star, like our own Sun, except he's now manifesting as a humanoid with limited mystical abilities.
Just go with that...
Debuting in the second issue of Calling All Kids, Twinkle not only ran for the remainder of the book's existence, but was reprinted in the same publisher's Childrens' Digest and Humpty Dumpty Magazine in the 1950s and 60s!
Once the Halloween season is over, we'll re-present his "origin" story!
BTW, despite the indicia above saying Quality Comics was a subsidiary of Parents Magazine Press, it wasn't.
Quality was only the editorial content packager and printing agent for Parents' comic book line, nothing more.

Thursday, June 4, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics TRUE COMICS "Yellow Jack: How the Cause of Yellow Fever was Discovered..."

Who says comics ain't educational?
Certainly not us!
And this never-reprinted real-life story from Parents Magazine Press' True Comics #1 (1941) proves it!
Fascinating!
A perfect example of the scientific method at work!
And, yes, that's the Dr Walter Reed the hospital in Washington DC is named after...and this is why it's named after him!
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Thursday, April 23, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics REAL HEROES "Plague Vanquished"

Not all comics heroes wear capes...
..as this tale of Edward Jenner, the doctor who saved us from smallpox, proves!
Who says comics ain't educational?
Not me, kiddo!
This never-reprinted story from Parent Magazines' Real Heroes #15 (1946) was one of several graphic dramatizations of Jenner's achievement which has saved countless lives since its' introduction!
Depending on how long the Covid-19 lockdown continues, we may have time to run all of them!
Sadly, both writer and illustrator(s) are unknown!
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Rabbit and Cat's CoronaVirus Jokes for Such a Time as This
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Trump Reading Room TRUE COMICS "There Are NO Master Races"

Sometimes Don the Con's sheepie have to be reminded of basic biological facts...
...and what better way than with pictures?
Appearing in Parents Magazine Press' True Comics #39 (1944), this short piece took anthropological scientific data (from the brochure shown below) and presented it in an easily-digestible form, which even today's Trumpettes could understand...I hope!
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The Races of Mankind
(the HTF illustrated pamphlet that served as the basis for the strip shown above!)

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Houdini Reading Room TRUE COMICS "Great Houdini"

..here's another, grittier, version, with more emphasis on the person rather than the performer.
This tale from Parents Magazine Press' True Comics #54 (1947) goes a bit further about both what inspired Houdini and caused his death.
But it wasn't the last word about Houdini in the four color pages of comics.
You'll see a more detailed retelling of his life story tomorrow!