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Issue: The Black Terror #23 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1948
 
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Publisher: FlagPines
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Alex Schomburg [as Xela] (signed)
Alex Schomburg [as Xela] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Black Terror
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Jean Starr
Reprinting
FlagGolden-Age Greats #3 published January 1995
as Cover - The Black Terror #23 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]0.4 page
FlagMen of Mystery Comics #48 published June 2004
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
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The Eye of the Lady Serpent!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jerry Robinson ?; Mort Meskin ?
Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed)
Jerry Robinson [as Robinson] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Black Terror
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Sergeant Mac Gooligan; un-named prison matron; un-named prison Warden (death); Office Schanz (death); Maharajah of Argozil; Lady Serpent (villain); Serpent's gang (villains, three die)
The Terror Twins must track down the Lady Serpent, who has just broken out of jail, killing the Warden, and who likely has her sights set of the million dollars worth of jewels being brought to town by the Maharajah od Argozil.
Reprinting
FlagGolden-Age Mystery Men #1 published April 1996
as The Eye of the Lady Serpent! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagBlack's Terror Tales #1 published July 2003
as The Eye of the Lady Serpent! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagGolden Titans #2 published November 2009
as L'Oeil de Lady Serpent [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagVixens, Vamps & Vipers #[nn] published January 2014
as The Eye of the Lady Serpent! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
B-172
Robinson and Meskin sometimes re-wrote scripts and often switched off on the pencil and ink chores. Most agree that this example was Meskin pencils and Robinson inks (per Alter Ego #111 for July, 2012).
The Road To Revenge!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Black Terror
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Buzz Mikola (newsboy, Danny's brother); Mrs. Nikola (Danny and Buzz's mother); Mr. Nikola (Policeman, Danny and Buzz's father, death, image only); Danny Nikola (villain, death); Krafty (villain, death); Krafty's gang (villains)
Young Danny Nikola is too involved with the wrong kind of friends, and ends up on the opposite side of the law. But when his brother is easily swayed into helping the gang steal some uncut diamonds, the Terror Twins step in to put a halt to the matter.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
11
B-229
Young Deerhunter's Trail

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Charles Stewart (credited)
Vic Prezio [as Prezie] (spot illustrations) (signed)
Vic Prezio [as Prezie] (spot illustrations) (signed)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
western
Deerhunter
Deerhunter (Yellowknife Indian boy); Deerhunter's mother; Constable Paul Miller; McTavish
Constable Miller stops by Deerhunter's abode and asks if there is one of their young men capable of being a guide, and the young boy volunteers to help Miller loacte old man McTavish.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Danger In the Air!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jerry Robinson (signed); Mort Meskin (signed)
Jerry Robinson (signed); Mort Meskin (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Black Terror
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Joe Subrini (acrobat); Nellie (villain, acrobat, reforms, death); Bojo (villain, former knifethrower, now lion tamer); Pippo (villain, reforms)
The criminal boss of a circus double-crosses one of his own performers in order to get revenge upon an acrobatic couple......with dire consequences.
Reprinting
FlagGolden-Age Greats #3 published January 1995
as Danger in the Air! splash [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]splash panel only
FlagGolden-Age Greats #3 published January 1995
as Danger in the Air! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagOut of the Shadows #[nn] published June 2012
as Danger in the Air [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
B-256
The Joneses

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jack Bradbury [as J. B.] (signed)
Jack Bradbury [as J. B.] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Mr. Jones; Jones' Grandmother
Jones discovers, with dire results, just how much of a back-seat driver Grandma is!
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Miscellaneous
2
Pretty Pictures

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Oliver Buchanan
? (spot illustration)
? (spot illustration)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Walter Graham; Walter's father; un-named State Policemen; Jake (villain, kidnapper); Larry (villain, kidnapper)
Walter, son of a famed artist, was at work one night in his father's studio when two men entered and told him that hisfather had been in an accident and they were taking him to him. But Walter smelled a rat and found a clever way to alert authorities to his whereabouts!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
B-258
The End of the World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Stan Aschmeier
Stan Aschmeier
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
The Space Speedsters
The Space Speedsters [Jinx Johnson (reporter); Randy Colman (astrophysicist)](introduction); Jim Burroughs (Editor of the Daily Tribune); Okey Collins (villain, former member of the Dixon mob); un-named ruler of Hecate (villain, death?); the ruler's followers (villains, all die?)
Jinx uses an old reporter's trick of asking a criminal to surrender and turn himself in, but it is a freak solar eclipse, caused by an unknown planet, that turns the trick.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
11
144-B
Only appearance?
Little Legends

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jules Steiner (signed)
Jules Steiner (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
two pranksters; gullible guy
Two guys decide to play a prank on a gullible guy, telling hime that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Imagine their surprise when the guy returns with that treasure!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
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