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| Publication | April 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Pencils: Alex Schomburg | Inks: Alex Schomburg |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton] |
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| Publisher advertisement | They're All Winners! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the inside front cover.
Illustrated promotional advertisement from Visual Editions, Inc. for the various comics that they published, all with mock covers, to include: Thrilling Comics, The Fighting Yank, America's Best Comics, Coo Coo Comics, Exciting Comics, The Black Terror, Startling Comics, Real Life Comics, Mystery Comics, Wonder Comics, Happy Comics, Goofy Comics, It Really Happened, and Barnyard Comics. |
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| Synopsis | Bob, Tim and Jean are having a picnic when they hear a noice and investigate, finding a broken window in a shack laboratory and a man shot inside. The man, a Doctor Hardwick, has been studying a rare and mysterious disease for years, called Lata, which paralyzes a portion of the brain so that the victim imitates everything said or done by another. Now the reseach has been stolen! |
| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Job #: CC-676 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jear Starr; Dr. Stephen Hardwick (a bacteriologist); Monahan (Policeman); "Brains" Smiler (villain, death); Smiler's mob (villains) |
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| Synopsis | Bob and Tim are in the process of delivering a prescription to an address when they hear screams from the house. Inside is an old woman who says she is hearing voices, telling her to surrender a package mailed to the house from her supposedly dead son. |
| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Job #: CC-685 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr (mention only); un-named old woman; woman's son; Armando (villain); other criminals (villains) |
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| Comic Story | Bigger and Better |
| Synopsis | A man brings his girl a surprise box of chocolates, and as he gestures his intentions, she continues to eat and grow larger.....until he is shoved off the couch! |
| Credits | Job #: Ac-885 |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: A girl; her date |
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| Featuring | Smith Brothers Cough Drops |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Smith Brothers |
| Notes | Illustrated advertisement for Smith Brothers Black Cough Drops. |
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| Text Story | Young Puzzlesmith (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Douglas worked at his father's company that helped make new types of games and created various types of puzzles. He was working late one night on a puzzle idea of his own when a knock at the door allowed a kidnapper to enter. But his quick thinking allowed a Policeman friend of his to eventually locate and save the lad. |
| Credits | Script: Edward Hassett (credited) | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Douglas Allen; Police Lieutenant Garry McMann; The Ghost [Dutch Galvin] (villain, a kidnapper) |
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| Synopsis | On their way to General Hospital to deliver some medicine, Bob and Tim hear about the escape of Killer Hearn from prison, and come face-to-face with Kearn, who, with his gang, rob the institution of a million dollars in radium. |
| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Job #: CC-650 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Killer Hearn (villain); Hearn's gang [Butch; others un-named] (villains) |
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| Text Story | Hour of Peril (1 page) |
| Synopsis | George is very concerned that enemies of his lawyer father might strike at them in their isolated suburban home.......and he is right!!! |
| Credits | Script: Charles S. Strong (credited) | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: George Miller (lawyer, Harry's father); Harry Miller; Jake Foster (villain); Marvin Diercks (villain) |
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| Synopsis | Oompah is tracking down wild and fierce jungle beasts, feigning bravery, but has to secure the services of Socrates in order to find out why the beasts avoid him. |
| Featuring | Oompah |
| Credits | Pencils: Don Christiensen [as Don Arr] (signed) | Inks: Don Christiensen [as Don Arr] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Jungle | Characters: Oompah; Mr. Socrates (an owl) |
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| Comic Story | Foiled Again |
| Synopsis | A magician uses an unusual method of dealing with a hold-up man. |
| Credits | Job #: CC-984 |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: a magician; a crook (villain) |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | The Statement of Ownership lists N. L. Pines as Editor and H. L. Herbert as Business Manager. |
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| Text Story | Just Lucky (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Danny is hired on as a hand for the Diamond A as six waddies were driving some cattle, and he was said to bring the outfit luck. They needed it, because, up ahead in the mountainous country, were cattle rustlers who were just waiting for them! |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tom Carson (trail boss); Danny Small; Jack Adams (a wrangler); Matt (the cook); cattle rustlers (villains) |
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| Synopsis | Ploopie is driving Steve nuts making animal imitations while his partner tries to read. When Steve remarks one imitation was right on the money, they discover the sound was made by a real horse....a race horse that some bettors are trying to put out of commission so that the nag they've bet on, Zombie wins instead. |
| Featuring | The Crime Crushers |
| Credits | Job #: CC-553 |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: The Crime Crushers [Steve Barry; Ploopie Carr]; Astrophel (a horse); J. V. Williams (owner of Astrophel); Jane Williams) (William's daughter); George; band of gamblers (villains) |
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| Advertisement | I Will Show You How to 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 six boxes of spare radio parts, along with a sample lesson and 64-page booklet "How to Be a Success in Radio", so that they could get training that would allow them to land a job in the radio field. |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photos);? | Inks:? (photos);? | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the back cover.
Illustrated advertisement for the line of books published by Popular Library, illustrating three books and listing other current titles, all available for 25 cents each. |
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