Exciting Comics #27

This anthology issue features The Black Terror as the primary character on the cover, depicted battling Japanese soldiers in a wartime action scene. The visible stories include a Black Terror tale involving a boat chase and water-based combat, a "Worry Willie" comic strip about a boy worried about an upcoming blackout drill who learns to stop worrying and be happy, and a "John Doe and the Doe Boy" story in which Dickie accidentally paints the family dog black with paint during a blackout drill, creating comedic complications. The issue reflects typical 1943 wartime comic book content with military action sequences and home-front humor.