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Series I: Eight Educational, Promotional, and Advocacy Comic Books, 1972-circa 2003
Series II: Three Christian and Fundamentalist Comics, 1976-1982
Series III: Seven Early Issues of "True-Adventure" Comic Books, 1941-1947
Series IV: Seven Later Books, 1977-2004
Series V: Thirty One Issues of Vidas Ilustres
Series VI: Three issue of Vidas Ilustres
Series VII: Six Mexican Comics Other Than Vidas Ilustres
Series VIII: Ten Original Tijuana Bibles
Seris IX: Seven Modern Imprints about Tijuana Bibles

Bert Hansen Educational Comics collection, 1941-2004

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Series III: Seven Early Issues of "True-Adventure" Comic Books, 1941-1947


Box 1 Folder 12 Calling All Boys 4 (May 1946).

Box 1 Folder 13 Real Heroes 1, rare 64-page first issue. (September 1941). Cover and first pages are moldy, but most of the book is solid.

Box 1 Folder 14 Real Heroes 13 (March-April 1946). Includes Helen Keller story.

Box 1 Folder 15 Real Life Comics 21 (January 1944). [This is the regular version of the title; the next item is an unusual variant.]

Box 1 Folder 16 Real Life Picture Magazine 6 (July 1942). Not clear why it has an unusual form of the title. This item's cover was separated, so to minimize further damage it's divided into three separate bags for book, front cover, and back cover.

Box 1 Folder 17 True Comics 49 (May -June 1946)

Box 1 Folder 18 True Comics 67 (December 1947).