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| Publication | July 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton] |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the inside front cover.
Illustrated advertisement from Credit Sales Company in Normal, Illinois, encouraging readers to send in for 40 different glittering patriotic and religious mottos that they can sell for 35 cents each. At the end of 2 weeks, readers will then send in 25 cents for each motto sold and keep the rest of the money. If they sell all 40, the seller can pocket $4. |
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| Foreword/Afterword | Crooks Who Would Be Kings; Steeplechase of Crime; Formula For a Getaway (1 page) |
| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland] |
| Notes | Illustrated frontispiece mastheaded the Black Terror, picturing the Terror Twins and three others not featured in the book, with the titles to the three Black Terror stories.
Art spotting by Loffink. |
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| Comic Story | The Crooks Who Would Be Kings! (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | When the Mayor is informed that the Earth's crust beneath Pawley's mine was very thin and may lead into the core of the Earth, the Terror Twins investigate and discover that the claim is true.....and strange, rubbery men emerge from the Earth's core. |
| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Job #: CC-1046 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Mr. Clarke (city Mayor); Hubert Trumball (Mayor's houseman); Jensen (scientist); Pawley (abandoned mine owner); Tony Ferret (villain, death); Ferret's gang (villains, all die); rubbery men (villains, all die?) |
| Notes | The splash page is a two-page spread. |
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| Comic Story | Formula For a Get-Away (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Terror Twins investigate the disappearance of Dr. Willis, who was experimenting with and wanting to mass produce a substance called Methylamine, a compound that produces a strange cellular energy in which a vacuum is created around the lower part of one's body, causing propulsion. |
| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Job #: CC-654 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; un-named Police Inspector; Clancey (Policeman); Dr. George Willis (city chemist, death); Pitman (villain); Jerry (villain); Joe (villain) |
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| Text Story | Blacksmith's Son (1 page) |
| Synopsis | After a hard morning's work in his father's blacksmith shop, Rusty takes a nap in the loft. When he hears an explosion down the street, he comes to find out that robbers have made off with $40,000 in cash. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rusty Gilmore; Pop Gilmore (Rusty's father); Sheriff Mullens; Mr. Larkin (a banker); three bank robbers (villains) |
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| Comic Story | Steeplechase of Crime! (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | When a colt mysteriously goes down and displays heart problems, the Terror discovers Picrotoxin in the colt's blood, which, in fatal doses, causes paralysis of the heart. |
| Featuring | The Black Terror |
| Credits | Job #: CC-1150 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; King Ebony (colt racehorse); Gloria Carstain (King Ebony's owner); Dr. Keene (villain); Ferret (villain); King Ebony's jockey (villain) |
| Notes | The splash page is a two-page spread. |
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| Cartoon | The Joke's on Youth (1 page) |
| Credits | Job #: CC-869 |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Page contains four un-related single-panel cartoons. |
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| Text Story | Stamp Collector (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | After the death of his philatelist father, young Ralph Conroy and his mother were having a hard time financially making ends meet, and decide to try and sell the duplicates to get them through. But a trustworthy dealer and friend helps to point out a fraud trying to be perpetrated by another dealer. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustrations, see notes) (signed) | Inks:? (spot illustrations, see notes) (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Ralph Conroy (stamp collector); George Conroy (Ralph's father, death); Mrs. Conroy (Ralph's mother); Mr. Timmins (stamp dealer); Mr. Groves (villain, stamp dealer) |
| Notes | The second, larger illustration is signed, but cannot make out the exact name. |
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| Synopsis | When Zippie brings a bouquet of roses to his girl, she gives him a big kiss. Awestruck, he quickly leaves to get more roses! |
| Featuring | Zippie |
| Credits | Job #: CC-1092 |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Romance | Characters: Zippie; Lois (Zippie's girl) |
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| Synopsis | Steve notes an ad in the paper in regards to a $50,000 reward for the return of a millionaire's daughter who had been kidnapped when she was one year old. When the kidnapper's decide to use a look-alike girl with the same birthmark on her foot to collect the reward, the We-Do-It Boys get involved. |
| Featuring | The Crime Crushers |
| Credits | Job #: CC-599 |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: The Crime Crushers [Steve Barry; Ploopie Carr]; Stephen Larrimore (millionaire); Gail Larrimore (Stephen's daughter); Chalmer's (villain); Bobo (villain, butler to Larrimore) |
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| Featuring | Popsicle |
| Content | Characters: Popsicle Pete; Bob Feller (Cleveland Indian's pitcher) |
| Notes | Illustrated advertisement from the maker of popsicles, encouraging readers to send in for free copies of Popsicle Pete's Fun Book and the Prize Catalog, picturing prizes that readers can obtain by collecting, then submitting empty bags of any of the popsicle products. |
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| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Found on the inside back cover.
Illustrated advertisement from London Specialties in Chicago for their button hole maker and extra needle threader: one for $1 or three for $2.50. |
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| Featuring | Baby Ruth |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the back cover.
Illustrated advertisement from the Curtiss Candy Company for their Baby Ruth Candy bars. |
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