It Really Happened
Pines · 1944–1947 · 11 issues
About the series
In the mid-1940s, Pines Comics launched It Really Happened, a 11-issue anthology series that dramatized sensational true stories from history and current events. Featuring vivid, often gritty artwork by Alex Schomburg, Graham Ingels, and Ken Battefield, the series offered a pre-Code blend of crime, adventure, and human-interest tales. It stands as a snapshot of wartime and post-war America's appetite for "ripped from the headlines" pulp realism in comic form.