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Mister Terrific (disambiguation)

topics referred to by the same term

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ139544351
Source-derived summary

Mister Terrific is the name of two different superheroes in the DC Comics universe:

Mister Terrific (Terry Sloane)

Mister Terrific (Michael Holt)

Mister Terrific may also refer to:

Mr.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mister Terrific (disambiguation)” is topics referred to by the same term. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mister, Terrific and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 29-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mister, Terrific and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q139544351. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from Mister Terrific (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.