Curse of The Bubbe - Episode 11

Falk is on the trail of an agent whose clients include villains like The Black Terror, The Shade & The Phantasm. But are they really villains? Who can tell these days? Does anybody really know what time it is? Yeah, I’ll tell you who knows: This Gun in My Hand.

Curse of The Bubbe, episode 11 of This Gun in My Hand, was pronounced by Rob Northrup. Rate and review this everywhere you can. Visit https://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for full credits, show notes, details on how to subscribe, and to buy my books. Who can you contact to hire me for writing gigs, birthdays, bar mitzvahs and quinceañeras? This Gun in My Hand!

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Music and sound effects credits: 

The opening and middle music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Black Terror musical sting is from the public domain film Hollow Triumph/The Scar (1948).

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Public domain

The illustration of The Black Terror tossing a criminal at cops is from his debut in Exciting Comics #9, May 1941. Pencils and inks by David Gabrielsen and color by Richard Hughes. Public domain.

Show Notes:

1. The Black Terror debuted in Exciting Comics #9 (May 1941, Vol. 3, No. 3). The first issue of his own comic was published in February 1943. His sidekick Tim Roland had no hero nickname. You can read these and many other public domain comics at digitalcomicmuseum.com.

2. Other real public domain comic characters mentioned in this episode include Captain Freedom, The Shield, Captain Battle, The Star-Spangled Kid, The Liberator, Captain Flag, The Flag, The Destroyer, The Whizzer, The Terror, Daredevil, and Yank and Doodle (the twins from Prize Comics). I made up the story about The Flag pulling a false flag in a museum, but there was a character named The Flag from Ace Comics.

3. This episode is sort of set in the 1940s, with a few anachronisms because of comedic license. Gary predicted that “fifty years from now [1990] the biggest thing on the comics rack is gonna be the one and only menacing guy in a skintight black costume with a skull on his chest.” The prediction came true, although it was some other guy in black with a skull on his chest, not the Black Terror.