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Real Life Comics #24 (1945)

Pines · 1945 · 52 pages

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Contains 8 stories
The Story of Baseball
8 pp · non-fiction; history; sports
Babe RuthTy CobbAbner DoubledayCharley WaiteArthur CummingsCharley ComiskeyBan JohnsonJohn McGrawChristy MathewsonWalter JohnsonDazzy VanceRoger HornsbyLou GehrigJoe DiMaggioCarl HubbellFranklin Delano Roosevelt

From the invention of the game by Abner Doubleday in 1839 through the modern era, this eight-page history traces baseball's evolution from a simple pastime into America's national obsession. The story chronicles the innovations that shaped the sport—from Charley Waite's pioneering leather glove to Arthur Cummings' discovery of the curve ball—and celebrates the legendary players who captured the nation's imagination, including Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Roger Hornsby, and the incomparable Babe Ruth. Witness how Ruth's transformation from pitcher to slugger revolutionized the game, and meet the stars who followed in his wake, from Lou Gehrig to Joe DiMaggio, as baseball became woven into the fabric of American life.

Thorfinn Karlsefni
8 pp · non-fiction; biography

Driven by the explorer Leif Eriksson's tales of a fertile western land, Thorfinn Karlsefni unites Icelandic and Greenlandic settlers around an audacious voyage across the Atlantic to establish a Norse colony in what they call Vinland. After treacherous months at sea and a brutal winter, Thorfinn and his wife Gudrid struggle to hold their settlement together against hunger, internal conflict, and the arrival of indigenous peoples who view the newcomers as invaders. This is the saga of Viking courage tested by an unforgiving continent and the quest to build a home in a land that will not welcome them.

Objective: Germany
4 pp · non-fiction; war

Lieutenant Colonel Donald Clayman leads his battalion of the First Army in a bold thrust through the Siegfried Line and into German territory near Gressenich on September 9th, establishing a crucial foothold on a strategically vital ridge. Facing waves of German counterattacks—from demolition squads and infantry charges to massed artillery and tank assaults—Clayman's men hold their ground through four grueling nights, repelling every attempt to dislodge them. This gripping account of courage under fire captures a turning point in the Allied advance toward Nazi Germany.

Sieur Pierre d'Iberville
6 pp · non-fiction; biography; military
The Human Bombsight
3 pp · non-fiction; war

Staff Sergeant Melvin J. Monheit, an aerial gunner and decorated member of the United States Army Air Forces, faces an impossible choice when his bomber's bomb-release mechanism is destroyed by anti-aircraft fire during a bombing run over a German aircraft factory. With his plane carrying live ordnance that could detonate on landing, Monheit volunteers for an extraordinary act of courage—being lowered beneath his aircraft to manually release the bombs while under heavy enemy fire. This true account from 1945 showcases a soldier's unwavering bravery in the face of overwhelming odds.

Andreas Hofer the Man Who Defied Napoleon
6 pp · non-fiction; biography
Andreas Hofer

In the rugged Tirol, a mountain province nestled in the Alps, Andreas Hofer rises from humble shepherd to lead a patriot army against Napoleon's seemingly unstoppable forces. When the French conqueror hands the Tirol to Bavaria as a spoil of war, Hofer refuses to accept foreign rule and rallies his countrymen to fight—pitting determined mountaineers against seasoned troops in a desperate struggle for freedom. This is the true story of how a band of peasants became the empire's most unexpected thorn, standing firm when the rest of Europe had already fallen.

Lieutenant Alexander Vraciu
4 pp · non-fiction; aviation; biography; war
Alexander Vraciu

Lieutenant Alexander Vraciu earned his reputation as a Navy ace during the pivotal air battle off Saipan in June 1944, when Admiral Mitscher's Task Force 58 clashed with Japan's air defenses in what became the war's most furious aerial engagement. This story chronicles Vraciu's extraordinary performance during those intense combat days, following his squadron as they scramble to intercept waves of enemy aircraft and his own skill as a pilot facing down overwhelming odds in the skies above the Pacific. With dozens of confirmed kills to his name, Vraciu embodied the fighting spirit that turned the tide of naval warfare in the Pacific theater.

Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
6 pp · non-fiction; biography; military

In this biographical account, young Alfred Thayer Mahan enters the Navy with a passion for understanding naval warfare through history, witnessing firsthand during the Civil War how the Federal blockade demonstrated the strategic power of maritime strength. His observations during combat operations—from the bombardment of Port Royal to the pursuit of Confederate vessels—crystallize into a revolutionary theory that he later publishes as "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History," a work that reshapes military thinking across America, Europe, and beyond. As his doctrines gain international recognition and influence naval strategy through the Spanish-American War and into the World Wars, Mahan's legacy becomes a driving force in shaping nations' approaches to global power.

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