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| Publication | October 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Doc Strange [Dr. Thomas Hugo Strange] |
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| Advertisement | Given Your Choice of Valuable Gifts or Cash (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the inside front cover.
Illustrated advertisement from Gold Crown products, offering readers the choice of gifts or cash, simply for selling quantities of Gold Crown Spot Remover and Cleaner. Prices include a leather billfold, holster set, a walky-talky, a birthstone ring, a sweetheart locket, a set of dishes, a baseball set, six teaspoons and more. Coupon provided. |
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| Comic Story | The Bio-Megascope Menace (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doc and friends see Professor Dean, who has invented a machine that can enlarge living creatures far beyond their normal size by atomic expansion...an invention that may give the Japanese an advantage in the war. |
| Credits | Job #: CC-467 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doc Strange [Doctor Thomas Hugo Strange]; Virginia Thompson; Mike Ellis; Professor Leroy Dean (inventor); Hiroko (villain, introduction); un-named Japanese (villains); Herman Taub (villain, Dean's assistant, introduction) |
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| Text Story | Through the Storm (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Snug in their cabin during a howling storm and reading a newspaper telling about bank bandits still on the loose, John and Danny hear a knock on the door and admit four men, supposedly a Sheriff and his posse. But Danny spots a clue that tells him the men aren't who they seem to be and alerts the ranch's foreman. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Colors:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Danny Lange; John Lange (Danny's father); Lem Carson (foreman); Sheriff Rand (villain); posse members (villains) |
| Notes | There is what appears to be an artist signature on the illustration, but it cannot be read. |
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| Comic Story | One Corpse Too Many! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Druggist Bob Benton arrives for a secret chemical job and finds his client, Brett Wilkins, strangely vanished! The body of a stranger turns up to confuse the picture until Bob and his friend Tim switch to combat garb as the mighty Terror Twins and break through the dam of hidden evidence to solve the riddle. |
| Credits | Job #: CC-428 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Professor Brett Wilkins (mechanical inventor, Dexter's Uncle, introduction); Dexter Wilkins (villain, introduction); Biff (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Due to confusion with the inker Ed Hamilton, we formerly credited Edmond Hamilton as the scripter of this story. |
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| Text Story | Herbie Helps the Police (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Herbie and Charlie were relaxing on the beach at Atlantic City when they saw two suspicious men holding the arms of a third man, who proved to be a local banker, and who was being robbed by the other two men. |
| Featuring | Herbie Johnson |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Colors:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Herbie Johnson; Charlie Sturdy (Herbie's friend); John Smather (banker) |
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| Comic Story | The Invisible Plane (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bruce tells Joan, as she is ready to board a transport plane, that several transports have been recently shot down and he was worried for her safety. |
| Credits | Job #: CC-265 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Bruce Carter I (in ghost form); Joan Farwell; un-named Nazi Colonel (villain); The Nazis (villains, some die) |
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| Synopsis | Volto helps stop bandits attempting to steal a sacred diamond from a temple. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Volto; Pedro (villain) |
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| Advertisement | Giant 3-Foot Precision Ground Lens Telescope (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the inside back cover.
Illustrated advertisement from the Invenco Corporation, offering readers a telescope for $3 and a free carrying case for it. |
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| Advertisement | New Enlargement (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the back cover.
Printed in black and white with shades of red.
Illustrated advertisement from the Dean Studios offering readers free enlargements of any photo or negative to 5" x 7" size, just for sending in a 3 cent stamp with the picture or negative. |
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