The Black Terror
#12
(November 1945)
Pines,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1945-09-11
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Nedor Publishing Company
- Editing
- Ned Pines (credited as N. L. Pines); Richard Hughes (actual)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Volume 40, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 698086.
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Black Terror / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Alex Schomburg (signed as Schomburg)
- Inks
- Alex Schomburg (signed as Schomburg)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; the Japanese
- Keywords
- television; Zero
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Black Terror / comic story / 11 pages
- Job Number
- CC-343
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bob Benton, young American druggist, and his friends Tim and Jean...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Richard Benton (Black Terror's uncle, introduction); Jean Starr; Mr. Farrow; Dr. Ghoul (villain, introduction); The Ghoul's creatures (villains)
- Synopsis
- Bob gets a letter from his Uncle in Wyoming inviting him and guests to come to his ranch for a visit. Unknowing, Benton and company don't realize a weird man has captured him and used a strange electrical cylinder to turn him into a distorted creature!
- Keywords
- Benton Drug Store; Queen Ranch; Wyoming
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Black Terror / comic story / 10 pages
- Job Number
- CC-436
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Human life holds little value among spies!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; un-named Police Chief; Riati [as Theodore Rawlings] (villain, a spy, death); Starch Cosmo (villain, introduction); Ace (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- A Mr. Rawlings brings in a golden statue he secured in Bali for anaylsis for gold content. But the Terror Twins learn later, after the theft of the statue from the drug store, that it contains a diagram of an incendiary bomb inside!
- Keywords
- Balinese War Goddess; Benton Drug Store
Canadian Boy
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Charles S. Strong (credited)
- Pencils
- ? (spot illustration)
- Inks
- ? (spot illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- Jerry Carlyle; Mr. Carlyle (Jerry's father); Fred Miller (Jerry's friend); the Nazis (villains)
- Synopsis
- With the onset of war, Jerry could no longer safely put out his cod lines, as German subs often passed by the fishing area. But Jerry has a trick up his sleeve: plant an explosive device in his innocent-looking model sailboat.
- Keywords
- Cape Sable; Halifax Harbor; Lunenburg (Nova Scotia); Royal Canadian Navy; U-Boat
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Black Terror / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- CC-451
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A Jap plot to poison America's top military officials...
- Genre
- war; superhero
- Characters
- The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Major General Jim Traynor (introduction, death); Traynor's un-named cook; Traynor's butler; Senor del Marte (plantation owner); Native Chief (villain); the Japanese (villains)
- Synopsis
- The Terror Twins must battle a nefarious Japanese plot to poison America's top military officials!
- Keywords
- Benton Drug Store; Caraca Plant; Seba; South America
Indexer Notes
Due to confusion with the inker Ed Hamilton, we formerly credited Edmond Hamilton as the scripter of this story.
Shave and a Shine
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Charles S. Strong (credited as Charles Stoddard)
- Pencils
- ? (spot illustration)
- Inks
- ? (spot illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Tony Gallo; Joe Gallo (Tony's father, a barber); Mr. Jensen (jewelry store owner); Officer Flanagan; jewel thief (villain)
- Synopsis
- After robbing a local jewelry store, a thief makes his way to a barber shop, hoping to hide out. But the barber's son sees through "the lather" to nail the crook!
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
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Black Terror -
1.
New Enlargement
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2.
["Bob Benton, young American druggist, and his friends Tim and Jean..."]
Black Terror -
3.
["Human life holds little value among spies!"]
Black Terror -
4.
Canadian Boy
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5.
["A Jap plot to poison America's top military officials..."]
Black Terror -
6.
Shave and a Shine
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7.
[Forest Fire]
Post Grape-Nuts Flakes; Volto from Mars -
8.
I Will Show You How to Learn Radio by Practicing in Spare Time
J. E. Smith Company -
9.
["How a 97-Lb. Weakling......."]
Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System
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