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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published July 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia states "published bi-monthly by Continental Magazines, Inc." Indexed copy had "3/3/44" written in pencil on back cover, presumably an on-sale date.

Cover Details - "Loaded with Action!"

Characters Kid Terrific; Jimmie
Genre Super-hero; Adventure
Pencils Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]
Inks Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]
Notes Indicia states "published bi-monthly by Continental Magazines, Inc." Indexed copy had "3/3/44" written in pencil on back cover, presumably an on-sale date.

9 page Kid Terrific and Jimmie story "Crime in the Everglades"

Characters Kid Terrific; Jimmie; Murray Calvin; Louie Barrow
Synopsis Murray Calvin, a Broadway columnist hires Kid Terrific (but not Jimmie) to go down to the Florida swamps to investigate a haunted house.
Genre Super-hero; Adventure

6 page Boomerang story "Hollywood Holiday"

Characters Boomerang [Captain Lloyd Raleigh]; Diana; Fritz Kurtzer
Synopsis Captain Raleigh and Diana are out for a sail when they come across an American submarine, with a German film director in charge of a group of Nazi sympathizers.
Genre Super-hero; Adventure
Pencils Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]
Inks Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]

6 page Comics McCormick story "Golly we're goin' faster than a streak of thunder an' lightnin'."

Characters Comics McCormick; Captain Catapult [Tom Manley]
Synopsis Comics settles in to read some comics when his sister brings home her new beau, Corporal Tom Manley. In his dreams, Comics quickly recognizes him as Captain Catapult and, together, they capture all the mob bosses in town and take them to the police.
Genre Humor
Script Ed Wheelan (signed)
Pencils Ed Wheelan (signed)
Inks Ed Wheelan (signed)
Letters Ed Wheelan

6 page Molly O'Moore and Scoop Scanlon story "Death on Ice!"

Characters Molly O'Moore; Scoop Scanlon; Blake Thompson
Synopsis Molly goes on vacation at a ski lodge and runs into Scoop. Together they discover a body frozen in ice.
Genre Adventure
Script Ken Fitch
Notes Ken Fitch credit from Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

2 page text story "Way of a Rogue"

Characters Melvin Blake
Genre Crime
Letters Typeset
Notes Includes two small illustrations.

6 page Juggernaut story "This story begins in front of the Dorgan Sawmill, in Splenham County.."

Characters Juggernaut; Gwen Barnes; Roy Lacy
Synopsis Juggernaut gets a job at the Dorgan Mill, and then is fired when the guy who runs the mill suspects he might know something about the plan to wreck a train.
Genre Adventure
Pencils George Appel [as G. H. Appel]
Inks George Appel [as G. H. Appel]

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Do you like Terrific Comics"

Synopsis Ad for Aero Comics, Cat-Man Comics and Suspense Comics, with small drawings of the heads of the main characters from each.

6 page story "Phantom Bridegroom"

Characters Dorothy Hamilton; Joe Matthews
Synopsis Joe Matthews is killed the day before he is supposed to marry Dorothy Hamilton. She goes to a mental asylum, insisting that Joe keeps calling her.
Genre Occult

6 page Buck 'n Broncho story "Buck 'n Broncho are at it again --- only this time Rajah lends a willing hand ---"

Characters Buck Jordan; Broncho Boyd; Rajah; Lucille Traymore
Synopsis Lucille Traymore is crowned Miss America and as soon as the crown is placed on her head, she dies. Buck and Broncho solve the murder thanks to Rajah, their monkey, taking film footage of the murderer disposing of the murder weapon... the crown!
Genre Adventure
Pencils Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]
Inks Rudy Palais [as R. Palais]