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Issue: Terrific Comics #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1944
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Issues: #4 of 6 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagTemerson / Helnit / Continental
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Continental Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/03/1944
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indexed from a copy with "3/3/44" written in pencil on back cover, presumably an on-sale date.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Loaded with Action!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]
Inker(s): Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Kid Terrific
Character(s): Kid Terrific; Jimmie
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Crime in the Everglades

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tom Van Buren
Inker(s): Tom Van Buren
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Kid Terrific and Jimmie
Character(s): Kid Terrific; Jimmie; Murray Calvin; Louie Barrow
Synopsis: Murray Calvin, a Broadway columnist hires Kid Terrific (but not Jimmie) to go down to the Florida swamps to investigate a haunted house.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Art very similar to his signed story in #6, rather crude faces with an odd cheek line from eye and down.
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Hollywood Holiday

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]
Inker(s): Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Boomerang
Character(s): Boomerang [Captain Lloyd Raleigh]; Diana; Fritz Kurtzer
Synopsis: Captain Raleigh and Diana are out for a sail when they come across an American submarine, with a German film director in charge of a group of Nazi sympathizers.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ed Wheelan (signed)
Penciller(s): Ed Wheelan (signed)
Inker(s): Ed Wheelan (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ed Wheelan
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Comics McCormick
Character(s): Comics McCormick; Captain Catapult [Tom Manley]
First Line: Golly we're goin' faster than a streak of thunder an' lightnin'.
Synopsis: Comics settles in to read some comics when his sister brings home her new beau, Corporal Tom Manley. In his dreams, Comics quickly recognizes him as Captain Catapult and, together, they capture all the mob bosses in town and take them to the police.
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Pages: 6
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Death on Ice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ken Fitch
Penciller(s): Nina Albright
Inker(s): Nina Albright
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Molly O'Moore and Scoop Scanlon
Character(s): Molly O'Moore; Scoop Scanlon; Blake Thompson
Synopsis: Molly goes on vacation at a ski lodge and runs into Scoop. Together they discover a body frozen in ice.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Ken Fitch credit from Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Albright is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the art is very similar to her signed story in #5.
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Way of a Rogue

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Melvin Blake
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Includes two small illustrations.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Appel [as G. H. Appel]
Inker(s): George Appel [as G. H. Appel]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Juggernaut
Character(s): Juggernaut; Gwen Barnes; Roy Lacy
First Line: This story begins in front of the Dorgan Sawmill, in Splenham County..
Synopsis: Juggernaut gets a job at the Dorgan Mill, and then is fired when the guy who runs the mill suspects he might know something about the plan to wreck a train.
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Pages: 6.67
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery, superhero
Feature(s): Continental Magazines
Character(s): Captain Aero; Miss Victory; Red Cross; Cat-Man; The Deacon; The Hood; Mr. Nobody; The Gray Mask
First Line: Do you like Terrific Comics
Synopsis: Ad for Aero Comics, Cat-Man Comics and Suspense Comics, with small drawings of the heads of the main characters from each.
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Pages: 0.33
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Phantom Bridegroom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Alderman
Inker(s): Jack Alderman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Dorothy Hamilton; Joe Matthews
Synopsis: Joe Matthews is killed the day before he is supposed to marry Dorothy Hamilton. She goes to a mental asylum, insisting that Joe keeps calling her.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Faces and much black shading are so similar to his signed Jack O'Hara story in Crack Comics # 36 that this is most probably him too.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]
Inker(s): Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Buck 'n Broncho
Character(s): Buck Jordan; Broncho Boyd; Rajah; Lucille Traymore
First Line: Buck 'n Broncho are at it again --- only this time Rajah lends a willing hand ---
Synopsis: Lucille Traymore is crowned Miss America and as soon as the crown is placed on her head, she dies. Buck and Broncho solve the murder thanks to Rajah, their monkey, taking film footage of the murderer disposing of the murder weapon... the crown!
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Pages: 6

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