| Additional Information |
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| Publication | September 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Pencils: Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed) | Inks: Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Jean Starr? |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | Found on the inside front cover.
Illustrated promotional advertisement from Popular Library in regards to their line of library westerns, including "Free Grass" by Ernest Haycox (cover is pictured). Cost for this book or any others listed in 25 cents each. |
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| Comic Story | The Lady Serpent Returns! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | While being transported back to prison via train, the Serpent Lady's gang engineers her escape, already making plans to hijack the Good Neighbor ship "Peace", carrying food and medical supplies. |
| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Pencils: Mort Meskin (signed) | Inks: Jerry Robinson (signed) | Job #: B-175 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Sergeant Mac Gooligan; Murphy (a Policeman); Sparks (radio operator); Joe (a sailor); The Lady Serpent (villain); Hulga (villain); Mogu (villain, a snake); Naru (villain, a snake); Mike (villain) |
| Notes | Signed "Jerry Robinson, Mort Meskin", who would often switch pencils and inks.
Penciler and inker credits from Cesar Diaz. |
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| Comic Story | The Revenge of Red Ann! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | News reporter Tim Reagan accompanies the Terror Twins as they are alerted that the mysterious Voice and his gang are hitting a bank. At the scene is the mysterious Red Ann, whose avowed mission is to track down the Voice and kill him. |
| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Pencils: Mort Meskin | Inks: Jerry Robinson | Job #: B-274 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton] Tim [Tim Roland]; Red Ann; Bart (Ann's husband, flashback, death); Trent (Ann and Bart's friend, flashback); Dick Reagan (reporter for the Daily Star); The Voice [Trent] (villain, Bart and Ann's friend); Voice's gang (villains) |
| Notes | Artwork signed "Jerry Robinson and Mort Meskin". They are known to have switched back and forth on penciling and inking. These Pencil and ink credits are from Cesar Diaz. |
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| Comic Story | From the Black Terror Scrap Book (1 page) |
| Credits | Job #: BF-228 |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Gas House Gus (a frog); Joe Louis (boxer) |
| Notes | Four different one panel cartoons highlight certain activities: how fast the punch of boxer Joe Louis is (127 mph); how far a famed frog leaped in 1937 in Sarasota, Florida (19 feet); how grueling the sport of lacrosse really is; and the fact that a paratrooper jumping from 20,ooo' will reach the ground in just 90 seconds....if his chute doesn't open! |
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| Text Story | The Lancers Are Coming (1 page) |
| Synopsis | An English missionary in India decides to send his son Bert back to the U.S. until the warring in India came to an end. But, while traveling on a ship, river pirates stop the vessel and decide to hold Bert for ransom. |
| Credits | Script: William McClellan (credited) | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset | Job #: B-331 |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Bert Collins; Golambi (Bert's native companion); river pirates [Bar-lema (leader of the pirates); rest un-named] (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Plundering Pooch! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bruce Brinton is a tough, wealthy man, who trusts absolutely no one.....but who still has a soft heart towards a small puppy. Unbeknownst to all, the puppy is wired by Hacker Kane's boys in order to track the whereabouts of the Terror Twins! |
| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Pencils: George Roussos [as Roussos] (signed) | Inks: Ralph Mayo [as Mayo] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Bruce Brinton; Mary Brinton (Bruce's daughter); Hacker Kane (villain); Kane's gang (villains) |
| Notes | No job number on story.
The last panel on page two has the name of the story's inker, "Mayo", on a store sign.
Oddity: Tim is shown not wearing his mask in many panels of the story. |
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| Text Story | Lucky John's Discovery (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Prospector Lucky John Carson, searching for traces of radium in Canada, has already discovered a large vein of gold, a fact of interest to two criminals. |
| Credits | Script: Chuck Stanley (credited) | Pencils: Paul Parker [as Parker] (spot illustration) (signed) | Inks: Paul Parker [as Parker] (spot illustration) (signed) | Letters: typeset | Job #: B-290 |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Lucky John Carson (prospector, George's grandfather); George Carson; Constable Jim Davenport; Pierre Le Blanc (villain); Trigger Kane (villain) |
| Notes | Signature is consistent with Parker’s signatures from Manhunt #11 (August, 1948). |
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| Comic Story | Larceny in the Lighthouse! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | A lonely lighthouse keeper and his daughter receive some unwelcome visitors, who are there to await a ship of smuggled goods. |
| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Pencils: Mort Meskin (signed); Jerry Robinson (signed) | Inks: Jerry Robinson (signed); Mort Meskin (signed) | Job #: B-298 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Hank Harper (lighthouse keeper); Jane Harper (Hank's grand-daughter); Bolo (a sea gull); Baby-Face Felton (villain); Felton's gang (villains) |
| Notes | Signed "Jerry Robinson / Mort Meskin". Likely they switched off in the art. |
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| Text Story | The Gray Shadow (1 page) |
| Synopsis | While riding along, Danny hears gunshots and realizes that his father has been out trying to track down the outlaw called the Gray Shadow. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (text header) | Inks:? (text header) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Danny Hutton; Sheriff Hutton (Danny's father); The Gray Shadow [Buck Shaw] (villain) |
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| Synopsis | Rico was having trouble selling bananas at any price, until he thought of an ideal way to get rid of them all. |
| Featuring | Rico |
| Credits | Job #: AC-725 |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Rico (street peddler) |
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| Comic Story | Aerial Acrobats! (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Steve and Ploopie are desperate: they are down to their last $5, and unless they find a client quickly, they'll have to do without food. They are approached by a Mr. Hastings, who earlier entered a cab, then suddenly awoke in an alley to find his wallet and some valuable postwar airplane designs missing. |
| Featuring | The Crime Crushers |
| Credits | Job #: CC-667 |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: The Crime Crushers [Steve Barry; Ploopie Carr; Abner Hastings (owner of Hastings Airplane Company); Horace Furman (villain, Hasting's competitor); Salvati (villain); Jimmy (villain) |
| Notes | Last appearance. |
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| Comic Story | Milking (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Li'l Chief Papoose must find a better way to milk a cow.....but how? |
| Featuring | Li'l Chief Papoose |
| Credits | Job #: AC-975 |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Li'l Chief Papoose |
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| Advertisement | Learn Radio by Practicing in Spare Time (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: J. E. Smith (company President, photo) |
| Notes | Found on the inside back cover.
Illustrated advertisement from the J. E. Smith Company, encouraging readers to send in for boxes of spare radio parts, a sample lesson and a 64-page booklet, "How To Be a Success in Radio", so that they can train at home to become radio and electronics workers. |
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| Featuring | Eveready Spotlight |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: A. G. Homa (expert fisherman) |
| Notes | Found on the back cover.
Illustrated advertisement from National Carbon Company for Everyready batteries. |
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