The Black Terror #19

(July 1947)

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

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Do You Want Spending Money?

Indexer 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.

Crooks Who Would Be Kings; Steeplechase of Crime; Formula For a Getaway (Table of Contents: 2)

The Black Terror / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Graham Ingels; ?

Inks

Graham Ingels; ?

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]

Indexer 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.

The Crooks Who Would Be Kings! (Table of Contents: 3)

The Black Terror / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

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Job Number

CC-1046

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?)

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.

Keywords

Benton Drug Store

Indexer Notes

The splash page is a two-page spread.

Formula For a Get-Away (Table of Contents: 4)

The Black Terror / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

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Job Number

CC-654

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)

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.

Keywords

Benton Drug Store; Methylamine; Pioneer National Bank

Blacksmith's Son (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Charles S. Strong (credited as Chuck Stanley)

Pencils

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Rusty Gilmore; Pop Gilmore (Rusty's father); Sheriff Mullens; Mr. Larkin (a banker); three bank robbers (villains)

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.

Keywords

King's Crossing

Steeplechase of Crime! (Table of Contents: 6)

The Black Terror / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

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Job Number

CC-1150

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)

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.

Keywords

Benton Drug Staore; Picrotoxin; The Northshore Derby

Indexer Notes

The splash page is a two-page spread.

The Joke's on Youth (Table of Contents: 7)

cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Al Hartley (signed)

Inks

Al Hartley (signed)

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Job Number

CC-869

Genre

humor

Indexer Notes

Page contains four un-related single-panel cartoons.

Stamp Collector (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Charles S. Strong (credited)

Pencils

? (spot illustrations, see notes) (signed)

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Letters

typeset

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)

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.

Indexer Notes

The second, larger illustration is signed, but cannot make out the exact name.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Zippie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Al Hartley (signed)

Inks

Al Hartley (signed)

Colors

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Letters

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Job Number

CC-1092

Genre

humor; romance

Characters

Zippie; Lois (Zippie's girl)

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!

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

The Crime Crushers / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

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Job Number

CC-599

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the office of the We-Do-It Boys...

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)

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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Popsicle / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Characters

Popsicle Pete; Bob Feller (Cleveland Indian's pitcher)

Indexer 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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Save Money - Save Time

Indexer 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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

Baby Ruth / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Pals in Pleasure

Indexer Notes

Found on the back cover.

Illustrated advertisement from the Curtiss Candy Company for their Baby Ruth Candy bars.