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Issue: Smash Comics #19 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1941
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Issues: #19 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 12/18/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bozo the Robot (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Midnight [Dave Clark] (inset)
First Line: Another thrilling episode of the Ray in this issue
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Pages: 1
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Slash Scraponi's Escape

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Lanford "Happy" Terrill]; unnamed Warden of Bedlam Island prison; Slash Scraponi (villain, introduction); Corny Hogan (villain, death); unnamed fake Warden of Bedlam Island prison (villain)
Synopsis: Corny Hogan turns state's evidence on Slash Scarponi, and the criminal is sentenced to Bedlam Island prison for twenty years. However, Slash is still able to control his mob on the outside because he has a phony warden in charge of the prison. When Happy Terrill begins putting the heat on Scarponi, the mobster decides it's time to break out of prison and get Terrill.
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In Issue: FlagThe Quality Companion #[nn] published November 2011
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Story title amended to that found in the reprint.
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Genres: aviation
First Line: I don't mind being up to my neck in airplane grease...
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Pages: 4
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Madame La Zinga

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Genres: childrens, humorous
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): The Scarlet Seal (Barry Moore); Captain Pat Moore
First Line: Just came in by phone, Barry!
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Credits suggested by the Who's Who.
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Graft

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight (Dave Clark);Old Man Dobbs; Bobby
Synopsis: Midnight investigates graft and corruption at an orphanage.
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Purple Trio [Warren; Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill]
First Line: Don't tell me he's thinkin'!
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]
First Line: You are to enlist at the armory as a raw recruit...
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Dick French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder ((1942-43).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo
First Line: Wun Cloo! I been robbed!
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Chuck; Belthor (leader of the Cro-Magnon men); Gordon Stack (villain)
First Line: We're off, Chuck -- to do or die for the geographic society!
Synopsis: Kent and Chuck crash land in the Arctic and find a tropical land replete with cavemen and thought-to-be extinct animals. Belthor, leader of the cavemen, says that the land is heated by volcanic steam and his people enslaved by men drilling for oil.
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Shauri

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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 4
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The Mummy Speaks

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Credits
Writer(s): Robert M. Hyatt (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Jimmy Christian
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Magno [Tom Dalton]; unnamed enemy agent leader (villain)
First Line: We are all helpless until the pilot lands!
Synopsis: When Tom's passenger plane is hijacked en route to Alaska, he defends the home front by uncovering an invasion plot wherein enemy agents are converting American transports into bombers.
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The Lamas of the Red Dragon

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Genres: mystery
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Pages: 4
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Genres: science fiction
First Line: What happened?
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