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I just love the cover art on this issue. |
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I love Golden Age title changes: "Black Cobra (formerly Billy Bunny)" |
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Publication | December 1954-January 1955 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
Notes | Art credits added by Eric Schumacher via the GCD Error Tracker. |
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Cover | The Big Blast! |
Featuring | The Black Cobra |
Credits | Pencils: Ken Battefield | Inks: Ken Battefield |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Cobra [Steve Drake] |
Notes | Art credits added by Eric Schumacher via the GCD Error Tracker. |
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Comic Story | The Big Blast (7 pages) |
Synopsis | F.B.I. Agent Steve Drake is assigned to prowl around a Guatemalan Air Base which seems to be a target for a red spy ring. |
Featuring | The Black Cobra |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: the Black Cobra [Steve Drake] |
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Comic Story | A Message to Gomez (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Press photographers in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. |
Featuring | Valor Unlimited |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmie Hare (photographer); Robert J. Collier (editor); Sylvester Scovel (reporter); General Gomez; the Black Cobra [Steve Drake] (host/narrator) |
Notes | Black Cobra replaces the original host Brenda Starr. |
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Comic Story | Trap for Traitors / Grenades For Glory (5 pages) |
Synopsis | The Black Cobra finds himself up against an incredible and fantastic plot to steal one the U.S.A.'s super-tanks. |
Featuring | The Black Cobra |
Credits | Pencils: Robert Webb? | Inks: Robert Webb? |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: the Black Cobra [Steve Drake]; Debbie; Steve Drake's unnamed boss; Mike (villain, killed) |
Notes | The art is very similar to the credited Webb-story in this issue, faces, ears, hands and cheek lines.
In the introductory blurb, the story title appears as "Grenades for Glory," which is how the reprint is titled. |
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Text Story | No Cowards Allowed (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Sergeant Pavey; Lieutenant; Johnny; Corporal Berkowitz |
Notes | Small drawing on second page. |
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Comic Story | Deadline for Danger / The Mystery of the Falling Corpse (7 pages) |
Synopsis | The Black Cobra gets a hurry up call for help from a great atomic plant. |
Featuring | The Black Cobra |
Credits | Pencils: Robert Webb | Inks: Robert Webb |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Black Cobra [Steve Drake]; Debbie; Steve Drake's unnamed boss; unnamed spy |
Notes | Art identification from reprint.
There is an alternate title in the introductory blurb: "The Falling Corpse." |
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