True, aka True, The Man's Magazine, was published by Fawcett Publications from 1937 until 1974. Known as True, A Man's Magazine in the 1930s, it was labeled True, #1 Man's Magazine in the 1960s. Petersen Publishing took over with the January, 1975, issue. It was sold to Magazine Associates in August, 1975. Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford H. Captain Billy Fawcett (1883-1940). ...

High adventure, sports profiles and dramatic conflicts were highlighted in articles such as "Living and Working at Nine Fathoms" by Ed Batutis, "Search for the Perfect Beer" by Bob McCabe and the uncredited "How to Start Your Own Hunting-Fishing Lodge." In addition to pictorials ("Iceland, Unexpected Eden" by Lawrence Fried) and humor pieces ("The Most Unforgettable Sonofabitch I Ever Knew" by Robert Ruark), there were columns, miscellaneous features and regular concluding pages: "This Funny Life," "Man to Man Answers," "Strange But True" and "True Goes Shopping." Robert Ruark (born December 29, 1915 in Wilmington, North Carolina–died July 1, 1965 in London, England) was an American journalist, traveler, and author. ...

In January, 1950, True went back to press after a sold-out issue in which Donald E. Keyhoe suggested that extraterrestrials could be piloting flying saucers. The material was reworked by Keyhoe into a best-selling paperback book, The Flying Saucers Are Real (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1950). True did follow-up UFO reports in 1967 [1] and 1969.

During the 1960s, True was edited by Douglas S. Kennedy. Robert Shea, co-author of the The Illuminatus! Trilogy, was an associate editor from 1963 to 1965 before he moved on to Cavalier and Playboy. Charles N. Barnard and Mark Penzer edited True during the 1970s. The cover price in 1963 was 35 cents, climbing to 50 cents by 1965 and 60 cents in 1970. Fawcett also did special issues, such as True's Football Yearbook, published annually from 1963 to 1972, and True's Boxing Yearbook. True's various spin-offs included calendars, such as George Petty's True Magazine Petty Girl Calender for 1948, pubished by Fawcett in 1947. Robert Joseph Shea (1933 - March 10, 1994) was the co-author (with Robert Anton Wilson) of The Illuminatus! Trilogy. ... Cover of the collected edition The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. ... Cavalier is a magazine launched by Fawcett Publications in 1952 and continuing for decades, eventually evolving into a Playboy-style mens magazine. ... Playboy is an adult entertainment magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. ... Time magazine cover, 1941-11-10, with portrait of Rita Hayworth by George Petty George Petty (1894-04-27-1975) was an American pin-up artist. ...

The magazine was the source for a number of books, including True, A Treasury of True: The Best from 20 Years of the Man's Magazine, edited by Charles N. Barnard and illustrated by Carl Pfeufer. This collection was published by Barnes in 1956. Cartoon collections included True Album of Cartoons (Fawcett, 1960), Cartoon Treasury (Fawcett, 1968), Cartoon Laffs from True, the Man's Magazine (Crest Books,1958) and New Cartoon Laughs: A Prize Collection from True Magazine (Fawcett, 1970).

The Main Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a lengthy run of back issues. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also known as UIUC and the U of I (the officially preferred abbreviation), is the flagship campus in the University of Illinois system. ...

Jack Webb was the executive producer, host and narrator of G.E. True, a 1962-63 television series filmed at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank for CBS. Articles from the magazine were adapted to TV by Gene Roddenberry and other scripters. Jack Webb John Randolph Jack Webb (April 2, 1920 – December 23, 1982) was an American actor, television producer director, and writer who is most famous for his role as Detective Joe Friday in the television series Dragnet. ... Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991 Born in El Paso, Texas) was an American scriptwriter and producer. ...

External links

• True (June, 1944): "One Man Air Force" by Christian Gilbert (full text)
• True (April, 1948): "Grand Slam in Rams" by Grancel Fitz (full text)
• True (September, 1956): "The One Ship Navy" by Fletcher Pratt (full text)
• Calling of an Angel by Dr. Gary L. Glum (detailed account of True's 1959 investigation of cure for cancer)
• True (March, 1960): "The Ruby Creek Incident" by Ivan T. Sanderson (full text)