America's Best Comics #15

(October 1945)

Given Your Choice of Valuable Gifts or Cash (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[The Bio-Megascope Menace] (Table of Contents: 2)

Doc Strange / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Richard Hughes ?

Pencils

Ray Thayer ?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

CC-467

Genre

superhero

Characters

Doc Strange [Doctor Thomas Hugo Strange]; Virginia Thompson; Mike Ellis; Professor Leroy Dean (inventor); Hiroko (villain, introduction); un-named Japanese (villains); Herman Taub (villain, Dean's assistant, introduction)

Synopsis

Doc and friends see Professor Dean, who has invented a machine that can enlarge living creatures far beyond their normal size by atomic expansion...an invention that may give the Japanese an advantage in the war.

Keywords

Bio-Megascope

Through the Storm (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Tex Mumford (credited) (house name)

Pencils

? (spot illustration)

Inks

? (spot illustration)

Colors

? (spot illustration)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Danny Lang sat gazing at the flames...

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Danny Lange; John Lange (Danny's father); Lem Carson (foreman); Sheriff Rand (villain); posse members (villains)

Synopsis

Snug in their cabin during a howling storm and reading a newspaper telling about bank bandits still on the loose, John and Danny hear a knock on the door and admit four men, supposedly a Sheriff and his posse. But Danny spots a clue that tells him the men aren't who they seem to be and alerts the ranch's foreman.

Keywords

Bar-L Ranch; Steerville

Indexer Notes

There is what appears to be an artist signature on the illustration, but it cannot be read.

One Corpse Too Many! (Table of Contents: 4)

The Black Terror / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ed Moritz (signed)

Inks

Ed Hamilton (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

CC-428

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Professor Brett Wilkins (mechanical inventor, Dexter's Uncle, introduction); Dexter Wilkins (villain, introduction); Biff (villain, introduction)

Synopsis

Druggist Bob Benton arrives for a secret chemical job and finds his client, Brett Wilkins, strangely vanished! The body of a stranger turns up to confuse the picture until Bob and his friend Tim switch to combat garb as the mighty Terror Twins and break through the dam of hidden evidence to solve the riddle.

Reprints

• in The Golden Age Review (Superlith, Inc., 1978 series) (1978)

Keywords

Benton Drugstore; Copps' Woods

Indexer Notes

Due to confusion with the inker Ed Hamilton, we formerly credited Edmond Hamilton as the scripter of this story.

Herbie Helps the Police (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Donald Bayne Hobart (credited)

Pencils

? (spot illustration)

Inks

? (spot illustration)

Colors

? (spot illustration)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Herbie Johnson liked spending the summer at the sea-shore...

Genre

crime

Characters

Herbie Johnson; Charlie Sturdy (Herbie's friend); John Smather (banker)

Synopsis

Herbie and Charlie were relaxing on the beach at Atlantic City when they saw two suspicious men holding the arms of a third man, who proved to be a local banker, and who was being robbed by the other two men.

Keywords

Atlantic City Boardwalk

[The Invisible Plane] (Table of Contents: 6)

The Fighting Yank / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Richard Hughes ?

Pencils

Al Camy ?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

CC-265

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Again and again, the Allied armies hammer at the Nazi rattlesnake...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Bruce Carter I (in ghost form); Joan Farwell; un-named Nazi Colonel (villain); The Nazis (villains, some die)

Synopsis

Bruce tells Joan, as she is ready to board a transport plane, that several transports have been recently shot down and he was worried for her safety.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Volto; Post Grape-Nuts Flakes / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Giant 3-Foot Precision Ground Lens Telescope (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

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New Enlargement (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

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