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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Jean Starr?
Pencils:
Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Inks:
Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
STORY DETAILS
Title:
The Lady Serpent Returns!
Characters:
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Sergeant Mac Gooligan; Murphy (a Policeman); Sparks (radio operator); Joe (a sailor); The Lady Serpent (villain); Hulga (villain); Mogu (villain, a snake); Naru (villain, a snake); Mike (villain)
Synopsis:
While being transported back to prison via train, the Serpent Lady's gang engineers her escape, already making plans to hijack the Good Neighbor ship "Peace", carrying food and medical supplies.
Pages:
8.000
Pencils:
Mort Meskin (signed)
Inks:
Jerry Robinson (signed)
Notes:
Signed "Jerry Robinson, Mort Meskin", who would often switch pencils and inks.
Penciler and inker credits from Cesar Diaz.
Title:
The Revenge of Red Ann!
Characters:
The Black Terror [Bob Benton] Tim [Tim Roland]; Red Ann; Bart (Ann's husband, flashback, death); Trent (Ann and Bart's friend, flashback); Dick Reagan (reporter for the Daily Star); The Voice [Trent] (villain, Bart and Ann's friend); Voice's gang (villains)
Synopsis:
News reporter Tim Reagan accompanies the Terror Twins as they are alerted that the mysterious Voice and his gang are hitting a bank. At the scene is the mysterious Red Ann, whose avowed mission is to track down the Voice and kill him.
Pages:
8.000
Pencils:
Mort Meskin
Inks:
Jerry Robinson
Notes:
Artwork signed "Jerry Robinson and Mort Meskin". They are known to have switched back and forth on penciling and inking. These Pencil and ink credits are from Cesar Diaz.
Title:
From the Black Terror Scrap Book
Characters:
Gas House Gus (a frog); Joe Louis (boxer)
Pages:
1.000
Notes:
Four different one panel cartoons highlight certain activities: how fast the punch of boxer Joe Louis is (127 mph); how far a famed frog leaped in 1937 in Sarasota, Florida (19 feet); how grueling the sport of lacrosse really is; and the fact that a paratrooper jumping from 20,ooo' will reach the ground in just 90 seconds....if his chute doesn't open!
Title:
The Lancers Are Coming
Characters:
Bert Collins; Golambi (Bert's native companion); river pirates [Bar-lema (leader of the pirates); rest un-named] (villains)
Synopsis:
An English missionary in India decides to send his son Bert back to the U.S. until the warring in India came to an end. But, while traveling on a ship, river pirates stop the vessel and decide to hold Bert for ransom.
Pages:
1.000
Script:
William McClellan (credited)
Pencils:
? (spot illustration)
Inks:
? (spot illustration)
Letters:
typeset
Title:
The Plundering Pooch!
Characters:
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Bruce Brinton; Mary Brinton (Bruce's daughter); Hacker Kane (villain); Kane's gang (villains)
Synopsis:
Bruce Brinton is a tough, wealthy man, who trusts absolutely no one.....but who still has a soft heart towards a small puppy. Unbeknownst to all, the puppy is wired by Hacker Kane's boys in order to track the whereabouts of the Terror Twins!
Pages:
7.000
Pencils:
George Roussos [as Roussos] (signed)
Inks:
Ralph Mayo [as Mayo] (signed)
Notes:
No job number on story.
The last panel on page two has the name of the story's inker, "Mayo", on a store sign.
Oddity: Tim is shown not wearing his mask in many panels of the story.
Title:
Lucky John's Discovery
Characters:
Lucky John Carson (prospector, George's grandfather); George Carson; Constable Jim Davenport; Pierre Le Blanc (villain); Trigger Kane (villain)
Synopsis:
Prospector Lucky John Carson, searching for traces of radium in Canada, has already discovered a large vein of gold, a fact of interest to two criminals.
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Chuck Stanley (credited)
Pencils:
Frank Parker ? [as Parker] (spot illustration) (signed)
Inks:
Frank Parker ? [as Parker] (spot illustration) (signed)
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Larceny in the Lighthouse!
Characters:
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Hank Harper (lighthouse keeper); Jane Harper (Hank's grand-daughter); Bolo (a sea gull); Baby-Face Felton (villain); Felton's gang (villains)
Synopsis:
A lonely lighthouse keeper and his daughter receive some unwelcome visitors, who are there to await a ship of smuggled goods.
Pages:
10.000
Pencils:
Mort Meskin (signed); Jerry Robinson (signed)
Inks:
Jerry Robinson (signed); Mort Meskin (signed)
Notes:
Signed "Jerry Robinson / Mort Meskin". Likely they switched off in the art.
Title:
The Gray Shadow
Characters:
Danny Hutton; Sheriff Hutton (Danny's father); The Gray Shadow [Buck Shaw] (villain)
Synopsis:
While riding along, Danny hears gunshots and realizes that his father has been out trying to track down the outlaw called the Gray Shadow.
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Donald Boyne Hobart (credited)
Pencils:
? (spot illustration)
Inks:
? (spot illustration)
Letters:
typeset
Characters:
Rico (street peddler)
Synopsis:
Rico was having trouble selling bananas at any price, until he thought of an ideal way to get rid of them all.
Pages:
1.000
Title:
Aerial Acrobats!
Characters:
The Crime Crushers [Steve Barry; Ploopie Carr; Abner Hastings (owner of Hastings Airplane Company); Horace Furman (villain, Hasting's competitor); Salvati (villain); Jimmy (villain)
Synopsis:
Steve and Ploopie are desperate: they are down to their last $5, and unless they find a client quickly, they'll have to do without food. They are approached by a Mr. Hastings, who earlier entered a cab, then suddenly awoke in an alley to find his wallet and some valuable postwar airplane designs missing.
Pages:
9.000
Notes:
Last appearance.
Title:
Milking
Characters:
Li'l Chief Papoose
Synopsis:
Li'l Chief Papoose must find a better way to milk a cow.....but how?
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CGC Census Report*
Grade
NG
PG
CVR
0.5
1.0
1.5
1.8
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.2
9.4
9.6
9.8
9.9
10.0
Total
Universal
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
5
4
0
3
2
3
0
0
1
1
4
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
31
Qualified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Signature Series
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
CGCxJSA
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Restored
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
Total
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
2
6
4
0
4
2
3
0
0
1
1
4
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
34
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