Black Cat #15

(January 1949)

[Contents Page] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Black Cat [Harvey] / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Ball of Fire (Table of Contents: 2)

Black Cat [Harvey] / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lee Elias (spot illustration)

Inks

Lee Elias (spot illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Until two weeks ago, I was a bum.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Jimmy-Boy Frakes; Sally Spar

Big Wood's Death (Table of Contents: 3)

Black Cat [Harvey] / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lee Elias (signed)

Inks

Lee Elias (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Deep in the wild north woods...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Rick Horne; Alan Woolf; Rocky Brown (gangster)

Reprints

• in Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 series) #56 (October 1955)

Indexer Notes

The splash panel is used for the cover.

Judo Tricks: Lesson Fifteen (Table of Contents: 4)

Black Cat [Harvey] / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lee Elias (signed)

Inks

Lee Elias (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Black Cat [Linda Turner]

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

Movie Flashes by Rick Horne / text article / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction; biography

Indexer Notes

Facts about movie stars supposedly compiled by Rick Horne, a fictional character from the Black Cat feature.

The Case of the Aquarium Murders [Part 1] (Table of Contents: 6)

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Russell Stamm (signed)

Pencils

Russell Stamm (signed)

Inks

Russell Stamm (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Preposterous...

Genre

adventure; fantasy-supernatural; detective-mystery; superhero

Characters

Scarlet O'Neil; Sandy; Professor Fychfud

Synopsis

Scarlet runs into one of her teachers from school, Professor Fychfud, who now runs the Aquarium. He takes Scarlet on a tour. When they get to the piranha tank, Scarlet sees human remains, and then finds herself pushed into the tank. She gets free and accuses the Professor, who denies wrong-doing. Scarlet and Sandy come back that night to investigate, but by then the Professor is in the grips of the real villain.

Reprints

• in Harvey Comics Hits (Harvey, 1951 series) #59 (August 1952) [retitled]
• from Invisible Scarlet O'Neil daily (Chicago Tribune) 1948-xx-xx - 1948-xx-xx

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

Winnie the Waitress / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Herman

Pencils

Vic Herman

Inks

Vic Herman

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Some shindig, wot?

Genre

humor

Characters

Winnie the Waitress; Maisie

Reprints

• in Comic Hits (Magazine Management, 1950 ? series) #20 (April 1954)

On the Beach (Table of Contents: 8)

Winnie the Waitress / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Vic Herman (signed)

Pencils

Vic Herman (signed)

Inks

Vic Herman (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You closed your eyes when I kissed you...

Genre

humor

Characters

Winnie the Waitress

Reprints

• from Terry and the Pirates Comics (Harvey, 1947 series) #12 (October 1948)

Indexer Notes

Five beach-related gag panels.

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

Sally and the Gang / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

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Colors

?

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

We've got to do something to pep up business

Genre

humor

Synopsis

An advertising scheme to drum up business at the beach-side hot dog stand goes too far.

Reprints

• in Fun Parade (Harvey, 1947 series) #41 (February 1949)

Perils of Linda Turner (Table of Contents: 10)

Black Cat [Harvey] / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lee Elias (signed)

Inks

Lee Elias (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

when is an accident not an accident?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Rick Horne; Arno Burt (film director); Tim Turner (Linda's father)

Reprints

• in Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 series) #56 (October 1955), #63 (October 1962)
• in The Original Black Cat (Lorne-Harvey, 1988 series) #9 (1992)

[Barry Ward (Part 1)] (Table of Contents: 11)

Mary Worth / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Allen Saunders

Pencils

Ken Ernst (signed)

Inks

Ken Ernst (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I feel so poorly today, Mary...

Genre

drama

Characters

Mary Worth; Barry Ward; Dr. Karen Ward; Buff Beverly; Miss Jones

Reprints

• from Mary Worth daily (Publishers Syndicate) 194xx-xx-xx - 194x-xx-xx

Indexer Notes

Script credit was previously given to Ernst, but Saunders was the uncredited author for four decades from its beginning in 1938.

Ernst took over the art chores in 1942.

Panels are reshaped and rejigged to fit a comic book page.

Blind Fury (Table of Contents: 12)

Black Cat [Harvey] / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lee Elias (spot illustration)

Inks

Lee Elias (spot illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Edward Joliffe was a very clever cameraman...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Edward Joliffe (cameraman); Rick Horne; C. B. de Pille (film director)

Reprints

• in Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 series) #56 (October 1955)