(Sensation Comics I #14) - Jason Bleek framed Wanda Wilson for the murder of his uncle Jabez, and Mr. Terrific had to clear her name. He deduced that Bleek would try to kill his other rich uncle next, and followed him. He caught Bleek and gave him a beating, but Bleek’s uncle saw the fight and called the police to save his nephew. Terrific was undeterred, and when Bleek tried to kill his uncle with a poisonous gas he prevented it and got the uncle on his side. Terrific presented Bleek and the uncle at Wanda’s murder trial, and after Bleek confessed Wanda was acquitted.

(Sensation Comics I #18) - Skinny McSlugg’s gang started a letter-writing campaign to convince radio station WMCG to have Mr. Terrific sell war bonds on their programs. The write-ins were a success, and soon Terrific had a show selling bonds, answering trivia and demonstrating his myriad talents. McSlugg’s gang committed crimes only when they knew Terrific was busy selling bonds. Terrific figured out their scheme, and got three prodigies, one versed in boxing, the second in music and the third in scientific knowledge to play “Mr. Terrific” on the WMCG program. McSlugg’s gang heard the imposters’ broadcast, and committed their latest heist, but were shocked when Terrific showed up to apprehend them.

(Sensation Comics I #21) - Wanda Wilson asked Terry Sloane to go to a masquerade ball with her friend Patricia Jones. Terry thought Pat was a battleaxe, but agreed as a favor to Wanda. At Pat’s house he was turned away by members of “Muggsy” Mc Graff’s gang, and soon learned that “Muggsy” was posing as Baron de Granby to take Pat to the ball and then marry her for her money. Terrific tried to tell Pat about “Muggsy” but she wouldn’t listen to reason, so at the masquerade ball Mr. Terrific exposed the Baron and his friends as crooks. Pat cried on Terrific’s shoulder about not being able to land a husband because of her plain looks, so Mr. Terrific used his talents as a beautician to give her a complete makeover. She was pleased with the result and asked Terrific to marry her, but he told her he had to run.

(Sensation Comics I #22) - Terry Sloane and Wanda Wilson attended a boxing bout, and met with fighter Slugger Jinks before the match. Terry overheard Jinks’ criminal manager demand he take a dive, so Terry changed into Mr. Terrific and drove off Flint. Jinks was scared for his life, knowing Flint desparately needed money to get out of town after committing a robbery, and would surely kill him if he didn’t take a dive. Terrific disguised himself as Jinks, won the boxing match, and after Flint and his gang were lured out to rub out Jinks he beat them and brought them into police custody.

(Sensation Comics I #26) - Terry Sloane attended an art opening and was approached by Benson, who showed him a copy of the painting “Proud Lady” by Hector. He offered Sloane a commission to convince Sloane’s socialite friend Rogers to sell the original, and accept the copy as a replacement. Terry told Rogers about the offer, but Terry’s art history background uncovered the fact that the painting Rogers had was a copy as well, so he knew Benson was up to something fishy. Terrific learned that Benson was actually Rogers’ former gardener, who’d robbed the Rogers house. The most valuable item taken was a $100,000 pearl pearl necklace that Benson hid in the picture frame of Roger’s “Proud Lady,” because he never had a chance to remove it from Rogers’ house. Terrific brought Benson into police custody, and gave the reward money to Rogers as compensation for having his painting revealed as a copy.

(Sensation Comics I #27) - Terry Sloane’s friend Jim Cowley was released from prison after stealing fifty dollars from his uncle. Cowley explained that he badly needed the money and intended to pay his uncle back, and he still wanted to repay his uncle so he hit Terry up for a loan. Later Terry heard that Cowley had been arrested for his uncle’s murder. As Mr. Terrific he investigated and found the true culprit was the uncle’s gardener Emanuel, who knew the old man was afraid of Jim and had written a note saying that if he was murdered Jim was to blame. Terrific cleared Jim’s name and had Emanuel arrested for murder.

(Sensation Comics I #28) - Terrific was apprehending the Mullins Gang when he was pulled into the year 7532 by a futuristic science council’s time machine. They explained that a hundred years before an alien planet entered Earth’s solar system, and its’ gravitational pull would have ripped Earth apart if not for the efforts of the coordinator. The tyrant Black Barax was holding the coordinator hostage, and the council sought Terrific’s help because his exploits had become legendary by their time. Once Terrific learned that Barax was located on what were once the South Sea islands, and he knew Barax’ island fortress was right over dormant volcanoes. He used dynamite to reactivate the volcanoes and frighten Barax into handing over the coordinator. Terrific was returned to own time and finished rounding up the Mullins.

(JSA #41, 42) - <April, 1944> The time traveling Black Barax and his time-cube arrived in Hartford. Mr. Terrific entered the time-cube and met two heroes from the future, Hawkgirl II and Mr. Terrific II. Terrific learned that his successor would one day be chairman of the JSA, and Terrific was pleased to learn that America would give equal rights to African Americans in the future. The heroes helped the Freedom Fighters in a battle against Barax. Mr. Terrific convinced Barax he was his ancestor and threatened to shoot himself in the head, thereby erasing Barax from the timeline. Barax fell for his ploy and retreated back to his own time. Human Bomb helped Hawkgirl and Mr. Terrific II reactivate Barax’ time-cube, and before they left Mr. Terrific made it clear he was impressed with his successor.

(Sensation Comics I #30) - Terrific noticed a commotion over a cat with its’ head stuck in a sewer grating and freed the animal. While a crowd was distracted by the cat in peril Mr. Flaster’s famous jewel collection was robbed. Terrific suspected that Flaster hired men to rob the collection so he could cash in on the insurance, and used his own pet cat as a distraction. Terrific told Flaster he’d trained the cat to catch the robbers, then surreptitiously rubbed dog-hair on Flaster’s clothes. The cat scratched Flaster, and he was convinced the cat knew he was guilty. He sent the men he hired to rob his jewels to dispose of the cat, but Terrific defeated the thugs and got a confession from Mr. Flaster.

(Sensation Comics I #33) - Terry Sloane attended Swami the Magician’s stage act, and realized Swami was picking the audience’s pockets as he was performing tricks. Terry changed into Mr. Terrific, beat up Swami and told him to leave town. To make surer Swami’d stay out of trouble Terrific followed him only to discover that Swami wasn’t going anywhere and gave his goons instructions to kill Terrific. Terrific, as Terry Sloane, hired Swami to perform at a surprise party for Wanda Wilson, and during the show he once again beat Swami, then turned him over to the authorities.

(Sensation Comics I #35) - Terry Sloane and Wanda were relaxing on a Nantucket beach when they were shangheid by Jim Giles, who’d overheard Terry bragging about being an expert diver. Years ago Giles blew up a passenger liner that contained industrial diamonds, and he wanted Terry to dive and recover the diamonds. Terry built a telegraphy set, and once neer the sunken ship he used it to send an S-O-S. Terry changed into Mr. Terrific and defeated Giles and his goons in time for a police launch to arrive and arrest Giles’ crew.

(Sensation Comics I #36) - A newly opened public library collapsed, and Mr. Terrific saved all the patrons from death, save the architect Mr. Desmond. Desmond suspected his builder Mike Fogarty was using inferior materials, and Terrific confirmed it by comparing Desmond’s plans for a bridge versus Fogarty’s finished product. Terrific told Desmond’s architect son Paul how to fix the bridge, then brought Fogarty for justice, using his alterations to the bridge blueprint as evidence.

(Sensation Comics I #40) - Terrific learned that someone was harming one of his business enterprises, Cur-It Cough Syrup, by selling imitation Cur-It that was just sweetened water. Near his Mudville Cur-It production center he found the body of the man responsible for the Cur-It knock-offs, Toothy Gamlin. Terrific went to Gamlin’s former base of operations and foundhis killer and the new leader of his gang, superhuman Gorilla Ganty. Ganty physically outclassed Terrific so Terrific spilled ammonium nitrate on a radiator, creating laughing gas that subdued Ganty and his gang.

(Sensation Comics I #41) - Terrific saw gangsters trying to kidnap Jim Grace, a millionaire playboy who was in the habit of handing out $100 bills to strangers. Terrific fought the gangsters, and Grace was shot in the struggle. While Grace recovered in a hospital Terrific impersonated him and allowed the gangsters to kidnap him. The gangsters were working for “Big” Bill Steven, who was Grace’s former partner in crime. They’d both been arrested over 20 years ago after pulling off an enormous heist, but Steven received a light sentence for turning state's evidence. Grace gave away $100bills from the heist to get even with him, which was why Steven wanted to kidnap Grace, to get his share of the heist before Grace gave it away. Terrific revealed himself and brought Steven and his gang into police custody.

(Sensation Comics I #44) - Mr. Terrific went to town to buy a garden hose for Wanda Wilson, who was afraid her garden was going to dry out. After finishing his errand Terrific caught up with a gang of bank robbers, who’d taken attention away from themselves by playing a phonograph record of gunshots and explosions on a nearby rooftop. They escaped, but Terrific used his photographic memory to recall the license plate number of their getaway car, and soon located them. He defeated them and returned to Wanda’s garden. Unfortunately he’d used the hose as a weapon against the thugs and found that it was now full of holes and useless to Wanda.

(Sensation Comics I #45) - Terry Sloane attended a private performance by master violinist Allegro at the home of music critic Chris Carlson. Carlson convinced Allegro to put his priceless Stradivarius in Carlson’s safe, and it was shortly thereafter burglarized. Sloane, convinced Carlson was behind the robbery, changed into Mr. Terrific and convinced Allegro to spread a story that he only used the Stradivarius for concerts, and that the thief had gotten away with a regular violin. Terrific disguised himself as Allegro, and gave a beautiful performance on a regular violin, making it sound like a Stradivarius. This drew out Carlson, and Mr. Terrific apprehended him and returned the stolen violin to Allegro.

(Sensation Comics I #46) - Terrific and Wanda Wilson caught Mr. Futile robbing a jewelry store, but were unable to apprehend him. Futile later kidnapped Wanda, and Terrific raced to her rescue. Futile captured Terrific, and planned to dispose of him only after going to the Theatre Awards banquet and stealing the award for best actor. Terrific escaped his bonds, freed Wanda, and met Futile at the banquet. Terrific defeated him and proclaimed his criminal/acting career a flop.

(Sensation Comics #47) - Wanda Wilson contacted Terrific, telling him her home’d been burglarized, and the thieves took a jewelry box Terrific gave her as a present. He offered to get her a new one, but she told him what she had inside was extremely important, and asked him to get it back. Terrific ran an add in the paper claiming the box was a fake, and that the real one would be on display at the Central Art Museum. The thieves took the bait, and Terrific followed them back to their hideout where he apprehended them and recovered the box. Wanda revealed she kept her diary in the box, and her diary revealed that Terrific was actually Terry Sloane. Terrific told her women were nothing but trouble and ripped up her diary.

(Sensation Comics I #48) - Wanda told Terrific she saw a man drop his bag, which was filled with money and jewels, and another man came up to her and offered to split up the find. He told her she could keep the jewels, he’d keep the money, and she could give him whatever money she had to make up the difference. Wanda, being honest, refused, and the man that dropped the bag returned for it. Terrific recognized the old “pocketbook drop” trick, the men were grifters, and the jewels were fakes. After initially failing to catch the grifters he disguised himself as an old man and caught them.

(Sensation Comics I #49) - Wanda invited Terry to see hypnotist Don Greco perform at her woman’s lodge. He told her he’d meet up with her, and changed into Mr. Terrific. He remembered Greco was an ex-con who was jailed for stealing from his hypnotized audiences. At the lodge he found “Big” John Tolley and his gang robbing the women who’d been hypnotized by Greco. Terrific made short work of them, then hypnotized Greco, who told Terrific he was going straight, but was coerced by Tooley into helping him rob the lodge. Terrific knew he was sincere in going straight so he used hypnotism to erase the memory of his involvement with Tooley from his mind.

(Sensation Comics I #51) - At Wanda's insistence Terrific investigated a new crime syndicate and discovered the members were five genius friends from Terry Sloane’s Clubmen’s League. Albert Smith, George Peters, Stewart Wilson, Michael Andrews and John Cavanaugh were so bored with success that they turned to crime. Terrific foiled them from robbing a gold mining office and explained their situation to their judge. The judge told them they should turn their minds to solving crimes, not committing them. With the geniuses working for the police Mr. Terrific felt comfortable taking a month long vacation.

(Sensation Comics I #52) - Terry Sloane went to an opera supposedly written by eight of the greatest living composers. His keen ear detected that it was the work of only one man, Selby, director of the Overture Opera Company. As Terrific he exposed Selby in the papers then went to see what Selby was up to. Selby’s goons knocked out Terrific and locked him in an underground cell with the famous composers that supposedly wrote Selby’s opera. Selby’d kidnapped them so he could sign their names to his opera and cash in on their fame by receiving eight huge royalty checks. Terrific helped them escape, and they gladly beat Selby to a pulp for Terrific.

(Sensation Comics I #53) - Terrific was investigating the murder of Jim Henelman when he saw Mortimer Blake fleeing a pawnshop with a gun. He explained someone had sent him the gun in the mail, and when he tried to get rid of it at the pawnshop the pawnbroker thought it was a robbery. Terrific used his ballistics training to check what he suspected, that the gun was the same one that was used to kill Henelman. Mortimer agreed to help Terrific catch the killer. Terrific had the press run a number of stories building up Mortimer as a new threatening criminal, and Red Mac and his mob, who’d sent Mortimer the gun, asked him to join their crew. When they went robbing Mortimer and Terrific thrashed them and handed them to the authorities.

(Sensation Comics I #55) - Timothy Whipple opened a criminology school to teach his revolutionary techniques, but no one was signing up, so Mr. Terrific enrolled to bring attention to the school. Members of the Mahoney gang stole a device Whipple invented to bust open safes and fled, so Terrific and Whipple use their forensic skill to track them down. They took down the gang, and after the story spread there were crowds enrolling in Whipple’s school.

(Sensation Comics I #56) - Terry Sloane and Wanda took a cruise aboard a yacht when someone started stealing valuables from the guests. Terry changed into Mr. Terrific, and found the culprit, Junior Elwood, , who was turning to crime because his father didn’t pay attention to him. A masked criminal entered Junior’s room, knocked out Terrific, and stole the valuables Junior had snitched. Terrific uncovered the crook’s identity, Shaw, the captain of the yacht, and captured him with Junior’s help. Junior realized how misguided he was, and decided he would rather fight crime like Terrific.

(Sensation Comics I #58) - Terry Sloane’s house was robbed by Cuff Davis and his boys, and Mr. Terrific chased them away. He connected Cuff to a series of crimes in which he was a suspect, but couldn’t be held because he had an alibi for each crime. He learned Cuff had a book of perfect alibis stashed in his room, and his next crime was committing a robbery while an impersonator hung out at the Blue Swan. Terrific printed up fake headlines about Cuff being sought for a murder in the Blue Swan an showed them to Cuff. He fumbled, admitting he ha a double at the Swan, thus eliminating his alibi for the night of the robbery. Terrific brought him into custody.

(Sensation Comics I #59) - Terry Sloane attended an award ceremony for Pop Crocker, the most honest boxing referee in town. Pop had one fight before retirement, and turned down the award, telling the sports community to watch the last fight and then judge if he was worthy. Sloane watched Pop referee the championship bout between champ Slash Gates and challenger Lefty Jargen. Slash tried to throw the fight, and Pop disqualified Lefty. Terry changed into Terrific to get the scoop, and Pop told him gambling racketeers threatened Slash’s life if he didn’t throw the fight, so he dqed Lefty so the gamblers wouldn’t profit. Terrific disguised himself as Slash to lure out the gamblers, and brought them to justice. Pop retired with his reputation intact, and Slash promised Lefty a fair rematch.

(Sensation Comics I #60) - Wanda took a job at an orphanage, and Terry tried to donate money to the owners Mr. Stone and Mr. Mason but became suspicious of them. After some detective work he learned they were jewel thieves using the orphanage as a front for a fence racket. He brought them to justice and made sure the orphanage was put under new and more honest management.

(Sensation Comics I #61) -Terry attended Mrs. Ritzbilt’s charity affair, which feature a performance by Elmer and his traine penguin Flipper. Elmer’s boss Gus Greagon was actually a crook, and used the penguin to rob the charity. Terry changed to Mr. Terrific and pursued Gus and Flipper. He cornered them in a zoo, and Flipper, tired of being used, attacked the criminals and helped Terrific capture them. Flipper’s bravery earned him and Elmer lots vaudeville shows.

(JSA #69-72) - <Octoer 28-30,1951> Terry Sloane received a ransom note from Roulette, who demanded he bring $10,000 to the Flying Pig Casino in New Orleans or he’d never see his brother Ned alive again. Terry knew he had to go save his brother. At the casino Roulette revealed she needed the money to raise her and Ned’s child, Veronica. Ned came up with the kidnapping hoax, then disappeared on her. Terry hated the idea of his niece being raised by a disreputable woman in a casino and snatched the child and ran from the casino. He saw the time-traveling Mr. Terrific II, who was fighting KKK members. Terrific I helped Terrific II, who explained he needed Terrific to return to action to stop Per Degaton from altering history and ending the Justice Society legacy. After Terrific I found a safe place for Veronica they met up with the rest of the reformed Justice Society and the time-traveling JSA at the Justice Society brownstone. Hourman informed them Per Degaton was going to assassinate the President. The Justice Society and JSA went to Washington to warn Truman that his life was in danger. Degaton and the Red Morgue attacked Washington, but the teams were ready for him. Degaton used a time-disc to speed up Atom’s metabolism and turn him into a nuclear bomb ready to go off. If he exploded millions would die, but J.J. Thunder and Johnny Thunder summoned the Thunderbolt to turn Atom back to normal. Terrific and the other heroes defeated Degaton, who fled into the timestream. The resulting time distortion caused Terrific and the other Society members to forget their adventure with the JSA.

(JSA #60) - <Octoer 30, 1953> Terrific and the Spectre were on the verge of capturing Terrific’s arch-enemy the Spirit King, but Mr. Terrific insisted Spectre leave him to Terrific, so the King could face trial. Spectre ignored Terrific, and damned the Spirit King to Hell after killing him.

Terrific retired as a superhero and became an English literature teacher at Gateway University. There he discovered an old enemy, the Spirit King, stealing a device from the campus laboratory. He resumed his identity of Mr. Terrific to hunt down Spirit King. Spirit King got the jump on Mr. Terrific, strangling him to death. The Justice Society of America pledged to bring King to justice and avenge Mr. Terrific.

(Spectre III #54 (fb)) - The JSA pursued Spirit King in Flash's body to Stonehenge, where he emerged, and jumped from one hero to the next to defeat them, ultimately taking Dr. Fate as his host, and allowing Flash to flee, and putting the idea in his head to seek Spectre's aid. Spirit King brought the heroes to Fate's Tower to punish them with hellish torments, and he animated Mr. Terrific's rotting corpse for his own amusement. Flash arrived with Spectre, and Spirit King revealed that his whole plan was to draw in the Spectre, his prize. His master was Shaitan, and he opened up a portal to Hell to consume the Spectre. Mr. Terrific's spirit arrived, and helped Spectre send Spirit King to Hell, closing the gate. Terrific said he always felt outclassed by his teammates, but he knew he was the hero that day, and the JSA said he made upo for his lack of powers with heart and guts.

(Starman II #37) - Mr. Terrific befriended Starman VII in the afterlife. Starman VII brought his brother Starman VIII to a banquet in limbo attended by Mr. Terrific and several other deceased mysteymen. Mr. Terrific warned Starman VIII that he would one day be tempted by vanity.