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Issue: Smash Comics #30 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #30 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: 11/19/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
Disclose Notes: Editor from Statement of ownership.

On Sale Date from the publication date and volume number from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Volume 37, Number 1. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 524532. Volume number not in the original comic.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gill Fox
Inker(s): Gill Fox
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Rookie Rankin (inset); Bozo the Robot (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Von Ribboncounter Affair

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Ray
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Von Ribboncounter (villain); Adolf (villain)
Synopsis: Von Ribboncounter tries to sabotage the Army's test of a new dive bomber.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: In an article in Alter Ego #127 (August 2014) states that, by this issue of Smash, Fine was collaborating with new Quality artist Bob Fujitani. It doesn't state that Fujitani worked with Fine on this story, but art spotters might want to check this out.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Arthur F. Peddy (signed)
Inker(s): Arthur F. Peddy (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Rookie Rankin
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Liguori Gang (villains); Strega Liguori
First Line: One of the city's finest, Rookie Rankin's special claim to fame is...
Synopsis: Rookie runs into the Liguori mob while trying to sell tickets to a benefit Police/Firefighters ballgame.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Yes Woman

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
Character(s): Archie O'Toole
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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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; Miss Malone; Tony; Laporta; Lefty (villain)
First Line: McGinty!! Speed Malone the racketeer who was taken for a ride yesterday, has a daughter! [sic]
Synopsis: Gangster Speed Malone left an old house to his daughter, but his lawyer won't tell her where it is.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Quality Companion states that Gustavson created this feature and did it the first two years of its existence.
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Big Tom's Oil Saboteurs

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 [Carol Vance Martin]; Big Tom (villain); Old Ben (death)
Synopsis: Wildfire, while visiting oil fields in the southwest, stumbles upon a murder, but the man behind the killing, Big Tom, thinks his liquid air gun will stop Wildfire.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #78 published March 2009
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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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]; The White Wizard (villain, scientist)
First Line: What would you do if suddenly the earth found itself confronted by invisible raiders and you were the only person who could stop them...
Synopsis: Kent Thurston discovers his invisible hood has been stolen by the White Wizard, a scientist who cracks its secret and makes duplicates for a gang of criminals who menace the city of Metropolis and whom the populace thought were actually aliens.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This is the 2nd appearance of the White Wizard, the only villain the Hood faced more than once.
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The Case of the Yehudi Murder

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); Mr. Hobbs; Sherrif Stanbaugh; Mayor Smith; Police Chief O'Connor; District Attorney Kane; Professor Craft (villain)
Synopsis: Professor Craft uses plastic surgery to create doubles of public officials and then kills the real ones.
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Pages: 6
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The Legions of the Red Menace

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; Red Menace (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Cole ?
Penciller(s): Jack Cole ?
Inker(s): Jack Cole ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Wun Cloo
Character(s): Wun Cloo
First Line: Lock your windows...close your doors...Moiderous Mike is on the loose...
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Pages: 1
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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; Tiny Todd; Warren]
First Line: A bus tears down a palm-fringed Florida highway...
Synopsis: The boys take jobs in a Florida hotel and expose a counterfeit racket.
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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.
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King of the Zombies

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert M. Hyatt (signed)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
Character(s): Jimmy Christian
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
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Statement of Ownership

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Everett M. Arnold
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Edward Cronin, editor
Publisher Everett M. Arnold (no corporation)
322 Main St., Stamford, CT.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lane French ? [as 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; Mito; Pepe
First Line: The fearless secret agent, Black X, with his trusty Hindu servant...
Synopsis: Black X battles U-boats off the coast of California.
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Miscellaneous
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. Lane 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)
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): Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot
First Line: Fate brings Hugh Hazzard, owner of the famous iron man to the scene of a defense plant hold-up. [sic]
Synopsis: Hugh tries to stop a defense plant hold-up but ends up buried alive in a cave.
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Pages: 7

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