XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: Smash Comics #29 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1941
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #29 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 10/17/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 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. 4.
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
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
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In6
reprinted 6 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (14 total)
Disclose Issue Images
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gill Fox
Inker(s): Gill Fox
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
Character(s): Midnight [David Clark]; Gabby; Doc Mortimer Wackey; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Bozo the Robot (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); Archie O'Toole (inset); The Purple Trio [Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill; Warren] (inset)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall [as E. Lectron] (signed)
Inker(s): Reed Crandall [as E. Lectron] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Ray
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; The Chief; El Lobo (villain)
First Line: Amid the boom of big guns and the rumble of mule-drawn caissons, war games get underway at Fort Sherman, Texas...
Synopsis: German spies and Mexican bandits terrorize Fort Sherman, Texas.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagO Faísca #2 published March 1943
as Terror no Texas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Faísca #3 published March 1943
as Terror no Texas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Faísca #1 published March 1943
as Terror no Texas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Faísca #6 published April 1943
as Terror no Texas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Faísca #5 published April 1943
as Terror no Texas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Faísca #4 published April 1943
as Terror no Texas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose
Double Trouble

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Arthur Peddy
Inker(s): Arthur Peddy
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Rookie Rankin
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Tim; Sniffer; Louie the Louse; Sgt. Burns
Synopsis: Rankin runs into a crook who looks just like him.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Devlin
Penciller(s): John Devlin
Inker(s): John Devlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Archie O'Toole
First Line: Another Crackpot Job-Seeker
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Jester
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; mad scientist (villain)
First Line: Disaster strikes in the subway system beneath the streets of New York!
Synopsis: A mad scientist invents a machine that can make solids intangible, thus allowing someone to literally walk through walls.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Quality Companion states that Gustavson created this feature and did it the first two years of its existence.
Disclose
In Hollywood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Turner (signed)
Penciller(s): Jim Mooney (signed)
Inker(s): Jim Mooney (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Wildfire
Character(s): Wildfire; Martin Conway
Synopsis: Wildfire battles arsonists at a movie studio.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)
Penciller(s): Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)
Inker(s): Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Invisible Justice
Character(s): The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Mamma Le Blanc; Wagner (villain); Lopez (villain)
First Line: On a dark and mysterious island in the Caribbean, Kent Thurston, the Invisible Hood, stumbles upon a threatening sore spot in the side of democracy...
Synopsis: The Invisible Hood destroys an enemy submarine base in the Caribbean.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose
The Return of Chango!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Cole (signed)
Penciller(s): Jack Cole (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Cole (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); J. J. Farsnby; Chango (villain)
Synopsis: Chango returns, kidnapping Gabby, who then entices people into his fortune telling shop, hypnotizing them into giving up their valuables. Very powerful in nature, Chango even changes Midnight into a dog when the hero shows up to apprehend the evil magician.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Inker(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Wings Wendall
Character(s): Wings Wendall; Bullet Plane; Agent 5; Miss Sanders
First Line: The deadly rattle of machine guns fills the sky over a country war-ridden for five years...
Synopsis: Wings flies to China to rescue an American agent.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Wun Cloo
First Line: Calling Wun Cloo! Calling Wun Cloo!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)
Inker(s): Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Purple Trio
Character(s): The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd]; Pedro Martinez (villain)
First Line: The ex-vaudeville team plays its biggest act unrehearsed, below the Rio Grande...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Alex Blum's gloomy faces are not to be mistaken.

S. M. Regi was a pen-name sometimes used by Jerry Iger, but also by others as a house by-line. Jerry Iger did not write this feature, but that Alex Blum, under this pen-name or by-line, did draw the strip.
Disclose
The Fiery Warning

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert M. Hyatt
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose
Lord Otterlake

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lane French [as Will Erwin] (signed)
Penciller(s): Witmer Williams
Inker(s): Witmer Williams
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Espionage Starring Black X
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Colonel Atwater; Lord Otterlake; Madame Doom (villain); false Lord Otterlake (villain)
Synopsis: Madame Doom tries to replace Lord Otterlake with one of her own men.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Williams is credited on drawing this feature.

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. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43).
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Brenner ?
Penciller(s): George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] (signed)
Inker(s): George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Bozo the Robot
Character(s): Bozo; Hugh Hazzard; Senator Janes; Emil Kurt
First Line: A news reporter races through the halls of the Senate Building in Washington --
Synopsis: When Senator Janes proposes the death penalty for spies, his life is in danger.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2024. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.