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Issue: The Black Terror #22 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1948
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Issues: #22 of 27 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Visual Editions Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/22/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1948 Periodicals, page 16.
N. L. Pines is listed as editor in the Statement of the Ownership; no editor is listed in the indicia.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Dream Maker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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!
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In Content Item: FlagBlack's Terror Tales #1 published July 2003
as The Dream Maker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Job Number: CC-1014
Disclose 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?
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The Bubble Gum Kid

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Oliver Foster
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Pages: 1
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Violins for Villainy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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.
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Pages: 11
Job Number: CC-1035
Disclose 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.
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From the Black Terror Scrapbook

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
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Pages: 0.75
Disclose Notes: Bottom half of page is statement of ownership and management.
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.25
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On the Record!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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!
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Pages: 11
Job Number: CC-1076
Disclose Notes: The Terror Twins are wearing domino masks in this story in many panels.
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A Gun for the Professor!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): The Crime Professor
Character(s): 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.
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Pages: 9
Job Number: CC-600
Disclose Notes: Only appearance.
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Mark of the Fur Thief

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, western
Character(s): Jim Cotton; Sgt. Pat Dalton
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): two un-named brothers
First Line: There lived in a town two brothers.
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Pages: 1
Disclose 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.

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