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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published May 1949
Frequency every other month
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Leon Harvey
Notes cover says BLACK CAT WESTERN

Cover Details

Pencils Lee Elias
Inks Lee Elias
Notes cover says BLACK CAT WESTERN

1 page Comics News text article

Script Leon Harvey?
Letters Typeset

8 page Black Cat story "Linda Turner Rides Again"

Genre superhero
Script Bob Haney ?
Pencils Lee Elias
Inks Lee Elias
Reprinted In Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 Series) #54 (February 1955)

1 page Black Cat's Judo Tricks activity "Lesson 17"

Characters Black Cat
Pencils Lee Elias
Notes number 17 in a series of instruction on judo moves.

1 page Movie Flashes text article

Script Rick Horne
Letters Typeset

8 page Invisible Scarlet O'Neil story "The Case of the Boarding House Murder [Part One]"

Characters Scarlet O'Neil; Mrs. Miterbox; Roscoe Roland (villain)
Synopsis Skinflint landlady Mrs. Miterbox has squirreled away a fortune, which she keeps stashed in her boarding house while living a life of misery. Ne'er-do-well Roscoe Roland happens to become aware of the fortune, and takes a room at Mrs. Miterbox's establishment under an alias. Detective Scarlet comes looking for Roland, but will Mrs. Miterbox, who is working on a scheme to gain her border's imagined fortune, reveal him?
Genre superhero
Script Russell Stamm
Pencils Russell Stamm
Inks Russell Stamm
Notes strip reprints
Reprinted in Harvey Comic Hits (Harvey, 1951 Series) #59, retitled as "Grave of Greed".

2 page Winnie the Waitress story "Are you sure its okay to borrow it, Maisie?"

Characters Winnie the Waitress; Maisie; Wally
Synopsis Winnie borrows a girdle from Maisie, but it brings nothing but trouble from her male customers.
Genre Humor
Script Vic Herman
Pencils Vic Herman
Inks Vic Herman

1 page Black Cat text story "Two-Gun Terror"

Characters Black Cat
Genre adventure
Pencils Lee Elias (illustration)
Inks Lee Elias (illustration)
Colors ? (illustration)
Letters typeset

8 page Black Cat story "Trouble In Death Valley"

Genre superhero
Script Bob Haney?
Pencils Lee Elias
Inks Lee Elias

11 page Mary Worth story "The Karen and Barry Ward Story"

Pencils Ken Ernst
Inks Ken Ernst
Notes strip reprints