Real Fact Comics is a series of educational American comic books published by three early iterations of DC Comics: World's Best Comics, Inc., Detective Comics, Inc., and National Comics Publications. The series lasted for 21 issues with cover dates from March/April 1946 to July/August 1949.[1] Like most educational comics besides the Parents' Magazine Institute's flagship series, True Comics, the series suffered from poor sales.[2]
Publication history
The educational comic genre emerged as a response to criticism of comic books from a Chicago children's book author, Sterling North. In a May 1940 article for the Chicago Daily News, North referred to comics as "a poisonous mushroom growth", "sex-horror serials", and "graphic insanity".[3] North's suggestion was to replace comic books with other forms of literature, either classic literature, or works of established children's authors.