True Comics #35

Lt. General Evans Fordyce Carlson rises through the ranks of the Marine Corps with an unorthodox philosophy—that understanding what you're fighting for makes soldiers tougher than those who fight for paycheck alone. Drawing lessons from his years observing guerrilla tactics with China's Eighth Route Army, Carlson forms an elite raiding unit of carefully selected volunteers, training them in unconventional warfare to take the fight directly to the Japanese. This is the story of how a maverick officer built one of the war's most formidable fighting forces.

Track the humble journey of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from a mischievous Missouri boy to the writer the world knew as Mark Twain, tracing how a found page about Joan of Arc, a printing press disaster, and years piloting steamboats on the Mississippi shaped his path to literary fame. When a story about a jumping frog contest gets published in 1865, the name Mark Twain catches fire, and Clemens begins his travels and prolific writing career that would make him one of the world's most celebrated authors. This True Comics biography captures how chance, curiosity, and the fiery spirit of a young man transformed an ordinary life into an extraordinary legacy.

Meet Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, a pair of Canadian twins who took to the slopes as toddlers and grew into two of the world's finest women skiers by their early twenties. From childhood daredevil jumps to competing at international meets—sometimes against each other, sometimes alongside—the Wurteles proved they're far more than just skiers, excelling at tennis, swimming, and horseback riding as well. Watch as these athletic wonders make their mark on the slopes and capture the hearts of Canadian sports fans.

From ancient Persian wonder to modern wartime necessity, "Black Gold" traces oil's journey from a mysterious substance revered as divine flame to the industrial fuel powering America's mechanized arsenal. This True Comics feature chronicles the key discoveries and innovators—from Samuel Kier's lamp oil refinement to Colonel Edwin L. Drake's historic 1859 strike near Titusville—that transformed petroleum from a curiosity into the lifeblood of twentieth-century civilization. Today, as oil companies rush their products to home fronts and battlefronts alike, synthetic rubber plants and 100-octane aviation gasoline prove that petroleum has become nothing short of a military weapon in humanity's struggle for victory.

Sgt. Irving Fenster is desperate to see combat action during World War II, and when news arrives that his newborn son has been born back home, he redoubles his efforts to join a bombing mission—finally getting permission to fly with the crew. When Japanese fighters attack the bomber, Fenster seizes a gun position and uses an unconventional but inspired method to bring down an enemy Zero, proving that courage and quick thinking come in unexpected forms.