(August 1944)

Pines, 1942 Series
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Volume
?
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
?
On-sale Date
1944-06-13
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
?
Editing
Ned Pines (credited as N. L. Pines) (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1944 Periodicals, page 255.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Black Terror / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Inks
Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; the Japanese
Reprints
Keywords
Zeros

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[The Adventure of the Kidnapped Airplane!] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Black Terror / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Paul (young boy); Anna (Paul's sister); von Klek (villain); Hans (villain); Herr Bubbels (villain)
Synopsis
The Terror Twins are out to rescue an army commission and a secretary that have been kidnapped by the Nazis and rescue a young boy's sister in occupied Poland.
Keywords
England; Poland

Ticker Tape (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Charles S. Strong (credited)
Pencils
? (spot illustrations)
Inks
? (spot illustrations)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
crime
Characters
Donald Morton (son of a stock trader); Mr. Morton (stock trader, Donald's father); un-named Policeman; Spud (villain); Mike (villain)
Synopsis
As Donald sat in his father's library, several ticker tapes began coming out of the machines, while, at the same time, two crooks broke in, captured him, wrote a ransom note, and took their captive out to the old Bailey place. They were surprised when Mr. Morton and the Police appeared.....all due to holes secretly punched into the ticker tape by Donald to pin-point his location!

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

The Black Terror / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Richard Hughes
Pencils
Ken Battefield
Inks
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Watch what happens when modest young druggist Bob Benton, alias the Black Terror, undertakes to deliver a new drug to South America [...]
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Dr. Swann; Casey (Policeman); President Gonzales (death); Lobos (villain, Swann's assistant, death); Herr Breitkopf (villain, death); group of Fascists (villains, all die)
Synopsis
Bob is commissioned to deliver a new drug to South America and walks right in to a fascist trap. The Terror Twins then use a major South American city, Bola, as a giant arena to battle against tyranny.
Keywords
Bola; Naphrotheolene; South America

Indexer Notes

All credits by Craig Delich.

Blind Man's Bluff (Table of Contents: 5)

Herbie Johnson / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Donald Bayne Hobart (credited)
Pencils
? (spot illustrations)
Inks
? (spot illustrations)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
adventure
Characters
Herbie Johnson; Police Officer Brady; a blind man (villain); un-named bank robbers (villains)
Synopsis
On the way to the grocery store, Herbie notices a blind man walking along the street.....a man he had never seen before in the neighborhood. Giving the man 10 cents, he continued to observe the man, who weirdly tapped his cane in a very odd manner while standing in front of the National Bank, so he reported this to a Policeman in the area. This clue of the tapping cane, they soon discovered, was a code to the blind man's fellow bank robbers, who soon hit the bank. Herbie's fast thinking led to their capture.
Keywords
Broadway; National Bank

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

The Black Terror / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
CC-14
First Line of Dialogue or Text
A brilliant French scientist languishes in the sordid confines of a German labor camp!
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Henri Pierre (French scientist); Yvette Pierre (Henri's wife); Renee (member of the French Underground); Raoul (young boy, member of the French Underground); von Jutt (villain); other un-named Nazis (villains)
Synopsis
The Terror Twins must rescue a brilliant French scientist from a German concentration camp in order for the man's vital secrets of chemical warfare to be brought to the Allies.
Keywords
U-Boat

Tumbling Act (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Walt Wilson (credited)
Pencils
? (spot illustrations)
Inks
? (spot illustrations)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Tom Drake; Jerry Drake; John Drake (Tom and Jerry's Uncle); Slash Harvey (villain); Harvey's men (villains)
Synopsis
Tom and Jerry, acrobatic tumblers, are spending the summer in Arizona on the ranch of their Uncle John, and while they are inspecting fences, wily men approach and grab the trio for ransom.

The Dorma Concerto (Table of Contents: 8)

The Ghost / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
August Froehlich ?
Inks
August Froehlich ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
fantasy-supernatural; superhero
Characters
The Ghost [George Chance]; Betty Chance (George's wife); the Eternal Swami; Thomas Winslow; Dr. Volkan (villain); Volkan's gang (villains)
Synopsis
The Ghost must face a Nazi master spy whose Satanic powers threaten to enslave millions.
Keywords
Dorma Concerto

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich

Remove Ugly Blackheads at No Cost (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

New Enlargement (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    The Black Terror
  2. 1. ["I Will Show You..."]
  3. 2. [The Adventure of the Kidnapped Airplane!]
    The Black Terror
  4. 3. Ticker Tape
  5. 4. ["Watch what happens when modest young druggist Bob Benton, alias the Black Terror, undertakes to deliver a new drug to South America [...]"]
    The Black Terror
  6. 5. Blind Man's Bluff
    Herbie Johnson
  7. 6. ["A brilliant French scientist languishes in the sordid confines of a German labor camp!"]
    The Black Terror
  8. 7. Tumbling Act
  9. 8. The Dorma Concerto
    The Ghost
  10. 9. Remove Ugly Blackheads at No Cost
  11. 10. New Enlargement
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Pat Conolly
  • Craig Delich
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore