XOWComics.com

Content Items (14 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?; ? (photo)

Inker(s): ?; ? (photo)

Letterer(s): typeset

Editor(s): ?

Subject Matter

First Line: Given Your Choice of Valuable Gifts or Cash

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Found on the inside front cover.

Illustrated advertisement from Gold Crown Products in Jefferson, Iowa, offering readers the chance to win a variety of gifts (or cash) for simply selling a specified number of orders for "Gold Crown Spot Remover and Cleaner".

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Ed (a Policeman); young boy (butcher's son); un-named butcher; Hilda (butcher's wife); Meat racketeers [Mike; others un-named] (villains)

First Line: Bob Benton, meek-looking young druggist, is in reality...

Synopsis: Bob and Tim follow a young boy who has brought medical supplies from the drug store to his father's butcher store, and discover that this man, and other butchers in town, have been beaten up for not buying illegitimate meat from a bunch of gansters and murders.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Job Number: CC-370

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Dr. Barbour (scientist); Duke (villain); Red (villain); Crowley (villain, death)

First Line: When black market operators can ordain life or death...

Synopsis: Bob and Tim go to see the eminent Dr. Barbour, who has been testing Bob's new antiseptic, to see if he has results available, and discover that the doctor's life is in danger and that a gang, headed by Crowley, are out to corner the lucrative sulfa market.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Job Number: CC-478

Spy Catcher

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, war

Character(s): Captain Leslie Garner (of American Army Intelligence); Lorenzo (Garner's native boy helper); Manuel; Japanese spy [as Major Dalton] (villain)

Synopsis: Lorenzo detects fake American currency in use in the Philippines, and traces it to a Japanese spy disguised as an American.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Rawson (American AAF Observer, death); Colonel Hardy; Toni Raymond; the Japanese (villains)

First Line: The Black Terror faces the most dangerous assignment of his life...

Synopsis: The Terror Twins go after some kidnapped American aviators that will soon be executed in order to boost Japanese morale. They discover an American girl, disguised as a Japanese, so that she can make drawings of enemy camouflaged docks she plans to provide to the Allies.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Job Number: CC-506

David and Goliath

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, crime

Character(s): Fred Lanier; un-named Policemen; Black Market thugs [Jerry; Butch; Red] (villains)

Synopsis: A group of thugs kidnap the son of a man who works for the ration board, and who is getting close to uncovering their black market activities. The lad uses the story of David and Goliath to alert the Police to his situation and is rescued.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Crime Crushers

Character(s): The Crime Crushers [Steve Barry; Ploopie Carr]; George Baxter (artist); Mr. Reynolds (art exhibitor); Manson (villain, art dealer); Manson's thugs (villains)

First Line: There is always something doing with the We-Do-It boys...

Synopsis: To get out of pouring rain, Steve and Ploopie dart into an art museum, and discover an art thief at work. As it turns out, the valuable painting's artist, thought dead, is actually alive and being forced to paint more "lost" paintings to enrich the thieves.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 11

Job Number: CC-406

The Strange Posse

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Character(s): Danny Young; Mr. Young (ranch owner, father of Danny); group of bank robbers [Sheriff Joe Kerry; others un-named) (villains)

Synopsis: A Sheriff Kerry visits the Leaning Y Ranch and tells owner Young that he and his posse are on the lookout for ten bank robbers who made off with $5000 from a bank in Pecos County. Smelling a rat, Young leaves a few men behind to watch the ranch and then joins the posse, who suddenly turn on him, intent to hold him while his ranch was being robbed.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Feature(s): Cheepie

Character(s): Cheepie; a cat (villain, death)

First Line: My woid! A boid!

Synopsis: As Cheepie sits in his cage, a cat, intent on eating him, jumps up to the cage to commit the foul deed......but Cheepie turns the tables on the vile feline.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.5

History's Mysteries

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; typeset

Editor(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): Smith Brothers

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.5

Notes: Illustrated advertisement by Smith Brothers Cough Drops, featuring the mystery of the Sargasso Sea, which no one knows why it is covered in seaweed.

[untitled]

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Editor(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction, superhero

Character(s): Volto; Jimmy; Jimmy's mother

Synopsis: Volto saves the day in several ways when he uses his magnetic powers to prevent a calamity caused by a falling meteor.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Illustrated advertisement by the General Mills Company for Grape Nuts Flakes.

Learn Radio by Practicing in Spare Time

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (photos)

Inker(s): ? (photos)

Letterer(s): typeset

Editor(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): J. E. Smith (President of company, photo)

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Found on the inside back cover.

Illustrated advertisement by the J. E. Smith Company, soliciting readers interested in learning about radio and reapiring of same, to send in a coupon provided, and, in return, they would be sent six boxes of spare radio parts with a sample lesson, plus the 64-page booklet, "Win Rich Rewards in Radio".

New Enlargement

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (photos)

Inker(s): ? (photos)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Editor(s): ?

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Found on the back cover.

Illustrated advertisement from Dean Studios in Des Moines, Iowa, which encourages readers to send in their favorite photo, and the company would make a 5" x 7" enlargement for them for the cost of only a 3 cent stamp.