The Black Terror #22

(March 1948)

The Dream Maker (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff; Ralph Mayo (splash and last panel)

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff; Ralph Mayo (splash and last panel)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

CC-1014

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)

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!

Reprints

• in Black's Terror Tales (AC, 2003 series) #1 ([July] 2003)
• in The Black Terror Men of Mystery Spotlight Special (AC, 2008 series) #1 (2008)

Keywords

Dream Palace; Fibber's Club; time travel

Indexer 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?

The Bubble Gum Kid (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Frank Roslyn (credited)

Pencils

? (spot illustration)

Inks

? (spot illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure

Characters

Oliver Foster

Violins for Villainy! (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

Frank Frazetta (partial); ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

CC-1035

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)

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.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #92 ([April] 2014)

Keywords

Stradivarius; Vocalian Hall

Indexer 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.

From the Black Terror Scrapbook (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 0.75 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?; Frank Frazetta (third panel only)

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Sequence added by Greg Theakston, 2002-05-29 (Per Sandell ed.).
Assorted facts.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Script

H. L. Herbert (credited) (business manager)

Letters

typeset

On the Record! (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff ?; Ralph Mayo ?

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff ?; Ralph Mayo ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

CC-1076

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)

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!

Indexer Notes

The Terror Twins are wearing domino masks in this story in many panels.

Art credits by Craig Delich.

A Gun for the Professor! (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

CC-600

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)

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.

Keywords

State University

Indexer Notes

Only appearance.

Mark of the Fur Thief (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Charles Stewart (credited) (house name)

Pencils

? (spot illustration)

Inks

? (spot illustration)

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime; western-frontier

Characters

Jim Cotton; Sgt. Pat Dalton

Keywords

Canada; RCMP

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

Little Legends / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jules Steiner (credited)

Pencils

Jules Steiner (credited)

Inks

Jules Steiner (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There lived in a town two brothers.

Genre

humor

Characters

two un-named brothers

Indexer 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.