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Issue Details

Issue #76
Published [January 2009]
Cover Price 9.95 usd
Pages 68
Editing Bill Black (editor); Mark B. Heike (associate editor)
Notes on sale date from comicslistdatabase.com. No date in indicia. Copyright date is 2008.

Cover Details

Characters Black Terror
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg
Reprinted from Black Terror (Standard, 1942 series) #18 (April 1947)

11 page Black Terror story "The Funny Man Murder"

Characters Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim; Jean; The Funny Man; Trigger (villain); Ace Crawley (villain
Synopsis Bob decides to take Tim to the amusement park instead of taking out Jean, but when they enter the "House of Laughs", it's anything but a laughing matter! Especially when it is being used to frame people for murder!
Genre superhero
Reprinted from Black Terror (Standard, 1942 series) #21 (January 1948)

6 page The Hood story "The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil"

Characters The Hood [Major Wood]; Rae Herman [his fiancée]; Satan (the Man in the Black Cloak, villain); Harvey Stone [villain, Dies].
Synopsis The Hood has to face Harvey Stone, a man who sells his soul to the Devil for 10 good years, a man who now has the luck of the Devil, and whose every venture is crowned with success and unspeakable evil.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Fujitani
Inks Bob Fujitani
Reprinted from Cat-Man (Holyoke, 1941 Series ) v3#1 [26] (September 1944)

8 page Doll Man story "The Secret Six"

Characters Doll Man [Darrell Dane]; Secret Six
Synopsis Darrel wanders into Chinatown and is nearly captured by a strange group called "The Secret Six," who plan to assassinate a Judge Benton.
Genre superhero
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Ross Andru
Reprinted from Doll Man (Quality, 1941 series) #36 (October 1951)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Attention Men of Mystery Readers"

Synopsis Announcement touting AC's on-line sales service, newsletter and predicting that AC's future titles may not be available through Diamond Distribution.
Script Bill Black
Letters typeset

13 page Flash Lightning story "Lightning receives a visit from the old man of the pyraminds"

Characters Flash Lighting; Marcia Rand; Miko the Grand Dictator
Synopsis Flash must stop a foreign Army that has been hiding in the United States from capturing Fort Holden
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Harry Lucey
Reprinted from Sure Fire Comics (Ace Magazines, 1940 Series) #3 (september 1940)

4 page Lady Luck story "Terrapin Aspic"

Characters Lady Luck
Genre superhero
Script Klaus Nordling (signed)
Pencils Klaus Nordling (signed)
Inks Klaus Nordling (signed)
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #? [1946]

10 page The Raven story "Here's tonight's box office receipts, Sir."

Characters The Raven [Sgt. Danny Dartin]; Mike Collins; Jack; Captain Lash; Lola Lash; Corvell (villain); Slug Dugan (villain, death)
Synopsis The robbery of a movie theatre leads the Raven and Lola into perils beyond hope against the Corvel Gang
Genre superhero
Pencils W. E. Rowland
Inks W. E. Rowland
Reprinted from Sure-Fire Comics (Ace Magazines, 1940 series) #3 (September 1940)

10 page Black Terror story "The Thieving Leprechauns"

Characters The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim; "Two-Sight" Gallagher (villain, death); Waxey Gargon (villain, death)
Synopsis Superstitious mobster "Two-sight" Gallagher believes in the "little people"....elves and the like, and when one of them plants an amulent on his person, Gallagher believes it to be a good luck charm.
Genre superhero
Reprinted from Black Terror (Standard, 1942 series) #21 (January 1948)