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| I'd bet hard money that the first story is Joe Shuster art. I think the Crime Cushers story is, as well. |
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| Publication | January 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Every other month |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton] |
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| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photo) | Inks:?;? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the inside front cover.
Sequence added by Craig Delich.
Illustrated advertisement from Gold Crown Products in Jefferson, Iowa, offering readers the chance to win a variety of gifts (or cash) for simply selling a specified number of orders for "Gold Crown Spot Remover and Cleaner". |
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| Synopsis | Bob and Tim follow a young boy who has brought medical supplies from the drug store to his father's butcher store, and discover that this man, and other butchers in town, have been beaten up for not buying illegitimate meat from a bunch of gansters and murders. |
| Credits | Job #: CC-370 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Ed (a Policeman); young boy (butcher's son); un-named butcher; Hilda (butcher's wife); Meat racketeers [Mike; others un-named] (villains) |
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| Synopsis | Bob and Tim go to see the eminent Dr. Barbour, who has been testing Bob's new antiseptic, to see if he has results available, and discover that the doctor's life is in danger and that a gang, headed by Crowley, are out to corner the lucrative sulfa market. |
| Credits | Job #: CC-478 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Dr. Barbour (scientist); Duke (villain); Red (villain); Crowley (villain, death) |
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| Text Story | Spy Catcher (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Lorenzo detects fake American currency in use in the Philippines, and traces it to a Japanese spy disguised as an American. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Spy; War | Characters: Captain Leslie Garner (of American Army Intelligence); Lorenzo (Garner's native boy helper); Manuel; Japanese spy [as Major Dalton] (villain) |
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| Synopsis | The Terror Twins go after some kidnapped American aviators that will soon be executed in order to boost Japanese morale. They discover an American girl, disguised as a Japanese, so that she can make drawings of enemy camouflaged docks she plans to provide to the Allies. |
| Credits | Job #: CC-506 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Rawson (American AAF Observer, death); Colonel Hardy; Toni Raymond; the Japanese (villains) |
| 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 | David and Goliath (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A group of thugs kidnap the son of a man who works for the ration board, and who is getting close to uncovering their black market activities. The lad uses the story of David and Goliath to alert the Police to his situation and is rescued. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Children; Crime | Characters: Fred Lanier; un-named Policemen; Black Market thugs [Jerry; Butch; Red] (villains) |
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| Synopsis | To get out of pouring rain, Steve and Ploopie dart into an art museum, and discover an art thief at work. As it turns out, the valuable painting's artist, thought dead, is actually alive and being forced to paint more "lost" paintings to enrich the thieves. |
| Featuring | The Crime Crushers |
| Credits | Job #: CC-406 |
| Content | Characters: The Crime Crushers [Steve Barry; Ploopie Carr]; George Baxter (artist); Mr. Reynolds (art exhibitor); Manson (villain, art dealer); Manson's thugs (villains) |
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| Text Story | The Strange Posse (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A Sheriff Kerry visits the Leaning Y Ranch and tells owner Young that he and his posse are on the lookout for ten bank robbers who made off with $5000 from a bank in Pecos County. Smelling a rat, Young leaves a few men behind to watch the ranch and then joins the posse, who suddenly turn on him, intent to hold him while his ranch was being robbed. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Danny Young; Mr. Young (ranch owner, father of Danny); group of bank robbers [Sheriff Joe Kerry; others un-named) (villains) |
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| Synopsis | As Cheepie sits in his cage, a cat, intent on eating him, jumps up to the cage to commit the foul deed......but Cheepie turns the tables on the vile feline. |
| Featuring | Cheepie |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Cheepie; a cat (villain, death) |
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| Advertisement | History's Mysteries |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Smith Brothers |
| Notes | Illustrated advertisement by Smith Brothers Cough Drops, featuring the mystery of the Sargasso Sea, which no one knows why it is covered in seaweed. |
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| Synopsis | Volto saves the day in several ways when he uses his magnetic powers to prevent a calamity caused by a falling meteor. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction; Superhero | Characters: Volto; Jimmy; Jimmy's mother |
| Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich.
Illustrated advertisement by the General Mills Company for Grape Nuts Flakes. |
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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 (President of company, photo) |
| Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich.
Found on the inside back cover.
Illustrated advertisement by the J. E. Smith Company, soliciting readers interested in learning about radio and reapiring of same, to send in a coupon provided, and, in return, they would be sent six boxes of spare radio parts with a sample lesson, plus the 64-page booklet, "Win Rich Rewards in Radio". |
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| Advertisement | New Enlargement (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the back cover.
Illustrated advertisement from Dean Studios in Des Moines, Iowa, which encourages readers to send in their favorite photo, and the company would make a 5" x 7" enlargement for them for the cost of only a 3 cent stamp. |
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