Real Fact Comics #21

Real Fact Comics #21 brings the thrill of real-world adventure to life in this 52-page 1949 DC offering, with cover art by Curt Swan and John Fischetti. The vivid yellow cover dominates with two paratroopers descending amid a tangle of power-line towers, their parachutes billowing dramatically overhead — promising "A Thrill a Second in A Day in the Life of a Paratrooper!" A colorful inset in the lower corner teases the Kit Carson Frontier Scout story inside, depicting a buckskin-clad frontiersman in a tense face-off with a Native American chief. At ten cents for a packed mix of military excitement and frontier history, this issue captures the energetic spirit of postwar educational comics at their most entertaining.