True Comics #81

This anthology issue features multiple historical biographical stories. "Lost Tree Arctic" recounts Sir John Franklin's 1819 expedition to find a Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with Franklin accepting King George III's challenge to explore unknown Arctic lands. "Modern Dragon Hunter" (by Roy Chapman Andrews) describes paleontologists discovering a dinosaur egg and mammoth bones in the Gobi Desert, which are later reconstructed for museum display. "John Fremont" chronicles the frontier explorer and presidential candidate who, nominated in 1856 as the first Republican presidential nominee on an anti-slavery platform, later served as a Union general during the Civil War when California sided with the North.