Digital Comic Museum - Black Terror 018


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Black Terror 18 (1947) - bcholmes scans
Three Black Terror stories, plus Oompah and the Crime Crushers. Plus two text stories

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Issue: #18
Published: April 1947, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1946-1947 Periodicals, page 51. Pines is credited as President in the indicia, and as Editor in the Statement of Ownership.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Black Terror [Bob Benton]

Comic Story (10 pages)
Featuring:	The Black Terror
Synopsis:	Bob, Tim and Jean are having a picnic when they hear a noice and investigate, finding a broken window in a shack laboratory and a man shot inside. The man, a Doctor Hardwick, has been studying a rare and mysterious disease for years, called Lata, which paralyzes a portion of the brain so that the victim imitates everything said or done by another. Now the reseach has been stolen!
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Black Terror [Bob Benton] Tim [Tim Roland] Jear Starr Dr. Stephen Hardwick (a Bacteriologist) Monahan (Policeman) "Brains" Smiler (villain, Death) Smiler's Mob (villains)

Comic Story (10 pages)
Featuring:	The Black Terror
Synopsis:	Bob and Tim are in the process of delivering a prescription to an address when they hear screams from the house. Inside is an old woman who says she is hearing voices, telling her to surrender a package mailed to the house from her supposedly dead son.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Black Terror [Bob Benton] Tim [Tim Roland] Jean Starr (mention Only) Un-named Old Woman Woman's Son Armando (villain) Other Criminals (villains)

Text Story (1 page)	Young Puzzlesmith
Synopsis:	Douglas worked at his father's company that helped make new types of games and created various types of puzzles. He was working late one night on a puzzle idea of his own when a knock at the door allowed a kidnapper to enter. But his quick thinking allowed a Policeman friend of his to eventually locate and save the lad.
Credits:	Pencils: ? (spot illustration) \| Inks: ? (spot illustration) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Douglas Allen Police Lieutenant Garry McMann The Ghost [Dutch Galvin] (villain, A Kidnapper)

Comic Story (10 pages)
Featuring:	The Black Terror
Synopsis:	On their way to General Hospital to deliver some medicine, Bob and Tim hear about the escape of Killer Hearn from prison, and come face-to-face with Kearn, who, with his gang, rob the institution of a million dollars in radium.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Black Terror [Bob Benton] Tim [Tim Roland] Killer Hearn (villain) Hearn's Gang [Butch Others Un-named] (villains)

Text Story (1 page)	Hour of Peril
Synopsis:	George is very concerned that enemies of his lawyer father might strike at them in their isolated suburban home.......and he is right!!!
Credits:	Pencils: ? (spot illustration) \| Inks: ? (spot illustration) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	George Miller (lawyer, Harry's Father) Harry Miller Jake Foster (villain) Marvin Diercks (villain)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	Oompah is tracking down wild and fierce jungle beasts, feigning bravery, but has to secure the services of Socrates in order to find out why the beasts avoid him.
Genre:	Humor Jungle
Characters:	Oompah Mr. Socrates (an Owl)

Text Story (1 page)	Just Lucky
Synopsis:	Danny is hired on as a hand for the Diamond A as six waddies were driving some cattle, and he was said to bring the outfit luck. They needed it, because, up ahead in the mountainous country, were cattle rustlers who were just waiting for them!
Credits:	Pencils: ? (spot illustration) \| Inks: ? (spot illustration) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Tom Carson (trail Boss) Danny Small Jack Adams (a Wrangler) Matt (the Cook) Cattle Rustlers (villains)

Comic Story (8 pages)
Featuring:	The Crime Crushers
Synopsis:	Ploopie is driving Steve nuts making animal imitations while his partner tries to read. When Steve remarks one imitation was right on the money, they discover the sound was made by a real horse....a race horse that some bettors are trying to put out of commission so that the nag they've bet on, Zombie wins instead.
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	The Crime Crushers [Steve Barry Ploopie Carr] Astrophel (a Horse) J. V. Williams (owner Of Astrophel) Jane Williams) (William's Daughter) George Band Of Gamblers (villains)

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