In his position as a columnist at the Chicago Daily News, North published an invective against comic books titled "A National Disgrace", where he referred to comic books as "graphic insanity" and "sex-horror serials".

[2] Clara Savage Littledale, an editor at Parents', introduced the series as part of a March 1941 article titled "What To Do About the 'Comics'?"

They consist largely of exciting picture stories which everyone recognizes as not only untrue but utterly impossible.

We have adopted as the slogan of True Comics, "Truth is stranger and a thousand times more interesting than fiction!"

As historian Jill Lepore said in her work The Secret History of Wonder Woman, "...what really set True Comics apart was that it was overseen by an editorial advisory board of experts: professors, especially historians, educators, and even the public-opinion pollster George Gallup".