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Publication | March 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton] |
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Comic Story | The Dream Maker (10 pages) |
Synopsis | Bob relates a story to the Fibber's Club involving the Terror Twins, who are taken by a noted nuclear physics scientist thousands of years into the future with his time machine. Bob wins a trophy that he can keep for 50 years for telling the best fib, and he has a surprise for them to mull over: a talking mechanical Black Terror doll from the future that can answer their questions! |
Credits | Pencils: Ralph Mayo (splash and last panel) | Inks: Ralph Mayo (splash and last panel) | Job #: CC-1014 |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Mr. Felton (chair of the Fibber's Club); Dr. Fission (nuclear physics authority); Bo Briantus (scientist, becomes the Black Terror's Deputy in the year 9767); Krol Mul (villain, ruler of the year 9767) |
Notes | Art credits from Bill Black's Terror Tales #1.
The Terror Twins are both shown wearing domino masks.
One wonders if this story's Fibber's Club was in any way influenced by the Liar's Club, as chronicled in many issues of DC's golden age adventures of The Flash? |
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Text Story | The Bubble Gum Kid (1 page) |
Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Oliver Foster |
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Comic Story | Violins for Villainy! (11 pages) |
Synopsis | A wealthy patron of the arts decides to find a deserving youngster who will appreciate his Stradivarius violin by holding a music contest in Vocalian Hall. Unfortunately, a group of crooks decide that the violin could line their pockets with much needed cash, so they kidnap, then disguise, a young violinst, to win it for them, and it's up to the Terror Twins to stop them. |
Credits | Job #: CC-1035 |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; James Spragg (wealthy patron of the arts); Jarvis (Spragg's butler); Harold Cosgrove (young violinist); Halloran (villain); Halloran's gang [Red; others un-named] (villains) |
Notes | For art spotters: other possible artists on this story include: Mike Suchorsky, Bob Oksner, Sheldon Moldoff, Ed Moritz, Ed Hamilton (inks only), and an artist who once signed as C.L..
The splash page is a two-page spread. |
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Comic Story | From the Black Terror Scrapbook |
Credits | Pencils:?; Frank Frazetta (third panel only) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
Notes | Sequence added by Greg Theakston, 2002-05-29 (Per Sandell ed.).
Assorted facts. |
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Credits | Letters: typeset |
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Comic Story | On the Record! (11 pages) |
Synopsis | Two fellows come into a store where Bob and Tim are and make a recording.....not knowing that the last part of that record reveals the true identities of the Terror Twins! |
Credits | Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff?; Ralph Mayo? | Inks: Sheldon Moldoff?; Ralph Mayo? | Job #: CC-1076 |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Rocky [as Mabel, Mike Hallaran's girlfriend] (villain); Mike Hallaran (villain, death); Hallaran's partner (villain, death); Gunner Gatch (villain); Spudsy (villain); Mug (villain) |
Notes | The Terror Twins are wearing domino masks in this story in many panels.
Art credits by Craig Delich. |
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Comic Story | A Gun for the Professor! (9 pages) |
Synopsis | Professor Randall takes his criminology class up to the State Prison to watch the inmates play a baseball game, and end up getting involved in a planned prison break. |
Featuring | The Crime Professor |
Credits | Job #: CC-600 |
Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: The Crime Professor [Lloyd Randall] (criminology professor, trouble-shooter for the FBI, introduction); Gail Windsor (daughter of FBI District Head); Federal Prison Warden; Donoto (villain, prisoner); Flynn (villain, prisoner); Pete (villain, prisoner) |
Notes | Only appearance. |
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Text Story | Mark of the Fur Thief (2 pages) |
Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Crime; Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Cotton; Sgt. Pat Dalton |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: two un-named brothers |
Notes | The story of two brothers: one, who was quite wealthy, but miserly, and another, not well-off, but one who was generous to a fault. |
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