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New Heroic Comics #44 (1947)

Eastern Color · 1947 · 52 pages

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Contains 14 stories
Grandpop Goes Into Action
3 pp · drama
Grandpop Maurice Shapiro

When two hold-up men burst into Grandpop Maurice Shapiro's haberdashery on Eighth Avenue in New York City, the elderly shopkeeper refuses to be an easy mark. This 1947 tale of everyday heroism shows what happens when courage—and a quick hand—meet criminal intent on the streets of the city.

Roanoke's Volunteer Lifesavers Wholesale Rescue
4 pp · drama
Unnamed members of the Roanoke Volunteer Lifesavers

When a polio epidemic strikes Roanoke, the Volunteer Lifesavers face an impossible crisis: nine patients dependent on iron lungs, but a power failure leaves them with no electricity to run the machines. Racing against time, the crew must improvise a desperate manual solution while fighting exhaustion and the clock to restore power before their patients slip away.

Operation Emergency!
2 pp · drama
Claudia Williams (former police matron)Jerry (child victim)

When a young boy named Jerry nearly drowns in his bath, former police matron Claudia Williams hears his mother's desperate cries and springs into action with life-saving artificial respiration. As emergency services race against the clock with fire trucks and resuscitators, Williams's quick thinking becomes the crucial difference between tragedy and survival in this true-life Birmingham rescue.

Fancy Skater on One Leg!!
2 pp · drama; sports
Chad Detrick

Chad Detrick, a naval veteran who lost the use of one leg at Okinawa, refuses to let his disability end his skating career—and takes the ice at Madison Square Garden to perform in a benefit for infantile paralysis victims. This true-life story captures a determined athlete's return to the rink and his inspiring contribution to a cause close to his heart.

Bicycle Mountie
4 pp · drama
Herbert Bell

When a store robbery erupts in Brooklyn, twelve-year-old Herbert Bell pursues the fleeing bandit on his bicycle, alerting police and staying on the criminal's trail across eight blocks of city streets. With help from two probationary officers who hear his calls for assistance, the determined young cyclist helps corner the suspect before he can escape on the elevated train. This true-life drama captures how one resourceful boy took inspiration from the Canadian Mounties to bring a stick-up man to justice.

Mercy Flight
5 pp · drama; aviation
Earl Johnson

When a polio outbreak strikes the small town of Washburn, Wisconsin, amateur pilot and baker Earl Johnson answers the call, using his homemade plane to rush victims 200 miles to Minneapolis for treatment. As the crisis deepens and the flights become more desperate—including a harrowing night run without proper instruments—Johnson faces mounting odds to keep his mercy missions flying.

Life Saving Scout
3 pp · drama
John Morritt

At an isolated peat bog on Long Island, sixteen-year-old Scout John Morritt watches in horror as a group of boys capsize their rafts—and discovers that several of them can't swim. With his life-saving training from the Boy Scouts, Morritt springs into action, racing against time and exhaustion to pull the drowning boys to safety. This 1947 drama from New Heroic Comics #44 captures a harrowing true-life rescue that proves why Scout training can mean the difference between life and death.

Alley Duel
4 pp · drama
George Patton

Detective George Patton's night off takes a dangerous turn when a desperate woman flags him down with news of a burglar in her apartment. What begins as a routine call escalates into a brutal alley confrontation between Patton and a violent criminal who won't go down without a fight. This gritty 1947 tale showcases the real perils facing New York's finest.

Nurse Without Fear
2 pp · drama
Queen Esther McElveen [as Esther McElveen] (? -1946)

Nurse Esther McElveen faces an inferno at her Florence, South Carolina sanatorium, and with complete disregard for her own safety, she makes trip after trip into the blazing building to rescue her patients. Determined to ensure no one has been left behind, she returns to the flames one final time—a decision that defines her legacy as a nurse of extraordinary courage.

Cattle Detective Roy S. Lobdell
1 pp · non-fiction; biography
Roy S. Lobdell
Saved From the Kennebec
4 pp · drama
Mrs. Thelma M. Skillin

When two boys plunge into the treacherous Kennebec River near Phippsburg, Maine, it's a nearby housewife—Mrs. Thelma M. Skillin—who springs into action, diving into the frigid water to pull them to safety. This heroic true-life story captures a harrowing rescue that tests one woman's courage and strength against the river's dangerous current.

Danger! Live Wire
2 pp · drama
Tom Hanley

Tom Hanley witnesses his pal step onto a live electrical cable in a railroad yard and springs into action, risking his own safety to pull his friend to help before tragedy strikes. With quick thinking and courage, young Tom races to summon aid while the injured boy fights for his life—and learns just how close a brush with danger can be.

The Telephone Company Vail Medal Award
2 pp · drama
Jennie Crouse

When a cyclone devastates the town of Alvin, Illinois in spring 1942, telephone operator Jennie Crouse finds herself the sole link between her devastated community and the outside world. As the disaster unfolds around her, she stays at her switchboard, relaying desperate calls for doctors, ambulances, food, and aid to emergency responders. This true account from the files of the Theodore N. Vail Medal Awards captures one operator's unwavering commitment in the face of catastrophe.

Saved by a Surfboard
4 pp · drama
John J. Komp

When a flash flood traps miners 200 feet underground in a Pennsylvania mine, John J. Komp, water safety director of the Pittsburgh Red Cross chapter, volunteers for a dangerous rescue mission armed with only a surfboard, a flashlight, and supplies. With water rising just six inches from the ceiling and the trapped men unable to swim, Komp must make multiple perilous trips through the flooded passage to bring them to safety. This true story from Red Cross files captures one man's courage against impossible odds.

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