Real Fact Comics #3 – Golden Age 1946 – Early H.G. Wells, Lon Chaney Bios – DC Educational Anthology!
Scarce early issue of DC’s Golden Age non-fiction comic series, Real Fact Comics! This July–August 1946 edition features:
📖 “Mr. Future” – A 5-page biography of H.G. Wells by Dick Sprang (signed)
🎭 “The Man of a Thousand Faces” – Early spotlight on Lon Chaney, horror icon
🥊 Sports feature on Joe Louis
🌊 Sci-fi “Just Imagine” segment: A Second Deluge!
🎬 Behind-the-scenes: Stuntmen of Hollywood story
🦴 Know Your Animals, Yellowstone Park, Broadway neon signs, and more!
Published by Detective Comics, Inc., this fact-based anthology predates most educational comics and features a mix of biography, science, pop culture, and quirky trivia stories—many later reprinted in Showcase or Strange Adventures.
🔹 Highly uncommon in the wild—rarely seen on the market, especially complete. A real treat for fans of vintage non-superhero DC, history buffs, or Golden Age completists.