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| Date | | Number: 27 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | America's Best Comics 27 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Frequency: quarterly |
| Notes | Copyright information was found in the Library of Congress online archive for this issue. The copyright date is listed as June 8th 1948. The cover date is listed as August 1948. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Miss Masque [Diana Adams] |
| Pencils | Alex Schomburg (signed) Alex Schomburg (signed) |
| Inks | Alex Schomburg (signed) Alex Schomburg (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Quiz Crime / The Black Terror (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bob and Tim fail to answer questions correctly on a quiz show, and the penalty is to have to don fake Terror Twin costume and halt a fake kidnapping of a child movie star. Real thugs intercept the mock criminals, and the drama becomes more real than the watchers of the quiz show imagine. |
| Job # | B-173 |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Terror Twins [The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim Roland]; JSlim Ruffo (villain; intro); Freddy Hooper (intro; child movie star) |
| Pencils | Jerry Robinson (signed) |
| Inks | Mort Meskin (signed) |
| First Line | What's a wakawak? |
| Comic Story | Death Stalks at Night / Miss Masque (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Diana Adams is invited to a party at the home of wealthy industrialist John Holder by Holder's nephews John and Rod. Holder confides to his lawyer that he has a scheme to determine who shall inherit his wealth, Rod or John. The scheme involves faking his death to find who grieves for him. When the scheme goes forward, Holder is truly dead, and Miss Masque must uncover the culprit. |
| Job # | CC-557 |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Miss Masque (Diana Adams); John Holder (introduction; death); Harry; Rod |
| Pencils | Ken Battefield ? |
| First Line | Millionaire John Holder had two nephews... |
| Text Story | The Mystery of the Larsen Twins (2 pages) |
| Feature | Rod McLeod |
| Colors | ? (2 spot illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Job # | B-293 |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Rod McLeod; Angus McLeod; Constable Phillips; Olaf Larsen; Sven Larsen |
| Script | Charles Stewart |
| Pencils | John Celardo (2 spot illustrations) |
| Inks | John Celardo (2 spot illustrations) |
| First Line | The first cold of winter was closing in... |
| Notes | text story with two spot illustrations |
| Comic Story | Jungle Jitters / Commando Cubs (11 pages) |
| Job # | CC-1185 |
| Genre | Children; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Commando Cubs [Horace; Ace; Spud; Pokey; Whizzer]; Professor Musselbownd |
| Script | Richard Hughes |
| Pencils | Lin Streeter |
| First Line | Do wild savages still lurk in deadly jungles? |
| Notes | The Commando Cubs appearance here follows their appearance in THRILLING COMICS #65. |
| Story | Zippie (1 page) |
| Job # | CC-1110 |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Zippie |
| Script | Al Hartley (signed) |
| Pencils | Al Hartley (signed) |
| Inks | Al Hartley (signed) |
| First Line | Young man, do you know what time it is? |
| Text Story | The Rainy Road (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Job # | B-306 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Characters | Henry Garland; Fred Gillen |
| Script | Frank Roslyn |
| Pencils | Carmine Infantino (spot illustration) (signed) |
| Inks | Carmine Infantino (spot illustration) (signed) |
| First Line | Henry Garland wanted to learn all he could... |
| Notes | Art previously credited to Dan Loprino, but the signature - Infantino - is clear. |
| Comic Story | The Hot Breath of Death / Doc Strange (10 pages) |
| Job # | CC-716 |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Doc Strange [Doctor Thomas Hugo Strange]; Mike Ellis; Alan Pascal (crook); Gunner Marr (crime boss) |
| Pencils | Ralph Mayo (splash panel) Ed Moritz (rest of story) |
| First Line | When hoodlums play a lawless game... |
| Notes | Art ID's by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. |
| Story | Little Legends (1 page) |
| Job # | CC-873 |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Jules Steiner (signed) |
| Pencils | Jules Steiner (signed) |
| Inks | Jules Steiner (signed) |
| First Line | A practical joker pretended to be drowning... |
| Notes | A reinterpretation of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
