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Issue: Four Color #36
Publication Date: January 1944
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Issues: #36 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Smilin' Jack
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "SMILIN' JACK, No. 36." No code number. Copyright 1938 by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc. Copyright 1939, 1940 by News Syndicate Co., Inc.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Smilin' Jack
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Smilin' Jack; Mary; Dixie Lee; Downwind Jaxon; Fat Stuff; Woo Woo
First Line: Mary, you've been swell - You've nursed Dixie...
Synopsis: Just when Jack is set to marry Mary, his former fiancee Dixie Lee returns, now widowed and blind. Downwind is chased by all the girls he's promised to marry. Fat Stuff courts fellow South Sea islander Woo Woo.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Smilin' Jack; Mary; Dixie Lee
First Line: Oh, Jack - I wish you and Mary wouldn't bother...
Synopsis: Mary and Jack fly Dixie to a specialist to check her eyes. On the way Dixie leaves the plane, not wanting to come between Jack and Mary. She stumbles into a building housing a wind tunnel. Jack and Mary follow and the three are caught inside when the fan motor of the tunnel is activated.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Smilin' Jack; Mary; Dixie Lee; Fat Stuff; Woo Woo; Downwind Jaxon; Rabbit
First Line: Don't worry about your burns, Jack
Synopsis: While saving Dixie and Mary in the wind tunnel, Jack's legs are badly burned by a steam pipe. While he's recuperating in the hospital, his roommate is Downwind, who was roughed up by all the girls he was stringing along. Meanwhile, Fat Stuff marries Woo Woo. Dixie and Mary both disappear, each thinking Jack is in love with the other girl. To take his mind off his troubles, Downwind convinces Jack to open a pilot training school.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Smilin' Jack; Downwind Jaxon; Fat Stuff; Woo Woo; Rabbit; Longdrink (cameo); Dove (cameo)
First Line: Me think me let-um gov-um-ment teach-um me...
Synopsis: Jack opens his pilot training classes for college students. One student is a problem as he is deathly afraid of planes. Jack keeps him around, but he doesn't improve.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Smilin' Jack; Rabbit; Madam Mongoose; Longdrink; Dove; Musclebound; Dribble
First Line: Don't be nervous Longdrink. There's nothing to...
Synopsis: Madam Mongoose gathers a group who all have had trouble with the law. She has a plot to kill pilot training instructors and demoralize their students. First, however, she must deal with a traitor from an earlier venture.
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From Content Item: FlagPopular Comics #90 published August 1943
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Disclose Notes: Code number "P.C. #90 438" for Popular Comics #90 is at the bottom of the first page.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Smilin' Jack; Downwind Jaxon; Fat Stuff; Rabbit; Madam Mongoose; Longdrink; Dove; Bill
First Line: O-Oh - I - I can't land it alone!
Synopsis: Madam Mongoose and Longdrink sabotage Jack's plane before he demonstrates some maneuvers for his class. In a last minute switch, Jack is called away and Bill, the other instructor, takes the plane up and is killed when it crashes. Madam Mongoose's second plan is to give Jack some chewing gum laced with sleeping powder. Jack falls asleep after takeoff, but his student is able to land the plane safely.
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From Content Item: FlagPopular Comics #91 published September 1943
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Disclose Notes: Code number "P.C. 91-439" for Popular Comics #91 is at bottom of first page.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Smilin' Jack; Downwind Jaxon; Madam Mongoose; Longdrink; Musclebound; Dixie Lee; The Head (cameo); Dark Eyes
First Line: Honey Lamb! Uncle Theon welcomes you!
Synopsis: Jack and Downwind attend the Diplomats' Ball, but so does Madam Mongoose. She has Jack and Downwind abducted and flown to her headquarters, where they find Dixie Lee busy folding leaflets, oblivious to their anti-American content. Madam Mongoose turns out to be an associate of Jack's old foe, The Head, and she plans to eliminate Jack, Downwind and Dixie by taking them into the stratosphere in an unpressurized plane where they will die from lack of oxygen. The plane ices up and crashes, but Jack, Downwind, Mary and Madam Mongoose all survive. Madam Mongoose escapes while Jack is going for help.
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From Content Item: FlagPopular Comics #92 published October 1943
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Code number "P.C. 92-4310" for Popular Comics #92 is at bottom of first page.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Smilin' Jack; Downwind Jaxon; Dixie Lee; Madam Mongoose
First Line: If I opened up to 40 inches, no doubt this bus would...
Synopsis: Madam Mongoose escapes, but can't resist watching what happens to a military plane that was sabotaged earlier. The sabotage is effective, but Madam Mongoose is killed by the careening plane when it crash-lands.
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From Content Item: FlagPopular Comics #93 published November 1943
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Disclose Notes: Story begins on the inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color.

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