According to the inside back cover of the Summer 1945 issue of True Comics, the whole Marvel family—and that’s Marvel family as in the original “Shazam!” Captain Marvel, not Marvel Comics—wants you to subscribe to Mechanix Illustrated.

I’m sure the fact Mechanix Illustrated was published by Fawcett, the same company that put out Captain Marvel‘s line of comics, had nothing to do with his opinion that any “wide-awake fellow” wouldn’t want to miss an issue.

Also in this issue of True Comics, an announcement explaining that wartime paper shortages have forced the publisher to turn their monthly into a quarterly “while the war lasts.”

I knew getting sufficient paper was a problem back then, but this is the first time I’ve seen this kind of notice in print. That’s on me, though. I’m sure there had to have been more of them, and it’s only the skimpiness of my Golden Age comics collection that’s prevented me from seeing one before.