CREATOR

Name: Street & Smith Publications (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in 1855 by Francis Scott Street (1831-1883) and Francis Shubael Smith (1819-1887). Stopped in 1959.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Street in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments:  The corporation chiefly published pulp fiction magazines and novels, but from 1940 to 1949 it took up publishing comic books as well. It never used a logo on these front covers.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1942*. Stopped in 1949 after 46 issues.

The series presents allegedly true stories featuring diverse sports celebrities.

The first 2 issues were titled True Sport Picture-stories (with a hyphen).

* The series was initially published titled Sport Comics from 1941 to 1942 (4 issues) thus the numbering of the series on this page starts at #5.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS

None.

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues)

#1/5 - 1942
#2/1 - 1943
#2/7 - 1944

#3/7 - 1946
#4/6 - 1948
#5/2 - 1949

 

 

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