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Issue: Smash Comics #31 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1942
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Issues: #31 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: 12/19/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Gill Fox was listed as editor in Police Comics (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #7 (February 1942).

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 524533. The volume number is 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
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Wanted: Midnignt and His Assistants

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey)
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Pages: 1
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Who Is Monsieur Le Rat?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bud; Sue Saunders (newspaper woman); Monsieur Le Rat (villain, surveillance device)
Synopsis: In Syria, Happy and Bud meet Sue Saunders of a rival newspaper, and uncovers a French surveillance device disguised as the giant Monsieur le Rat. After Happy becomes a war correspondent, he couldn't afford to take Bud with him on his adventures. Astonishingly, Bud threatens to reveal the Ray's true identity to the world if Happy refuses to take him along... so Happy caves in.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The art must be Fujitani: the faces, the eyes, the bodies and the way cloth twirls all indicate it must be him instead of Lou Fine (as was previously credited). Some panels, though, might be partially Lou Fine's work, especially the very detailed ones (e.g. the camel's face). This is very likely because in his article in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows, 1999 series) #127 (August 2014), Ken Quattro states that, by issue #30 of Smash, Fine was collaborating with new Quality artist Bob Fujitani.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Colonel Atwater; Batu; Madame Doom (villain); Herr Klotz (villain)
First Line: Black X and his chief are on the trail of a mysterious radio station.
Synopsis: Klotz and his spies occupy a secret floor in the Cronin Building.
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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. 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): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo
First Line: Wun Cloo!! I've been robbed!
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Archie O'Toole
First Line: Am I faded? Yer bleached
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Kurt; Eric; Alan Hall
First Line: The protecting shadows of night grow deeper as the people of Center City slumber --
Synopsis: Hugh and Bozo track down two spies who shot a security guard in a defense plant. They kidnap an American scientist and force him to make a new explosive.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): The Red Menace; Diane Westcott
First Line: You'll never take the United States, Red Menace!
Synopsis: The Red Menace has a deadly atomic bomb with which he plans to conquer the world.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Rogar; Jane Watson; Yar
First Line: Ach! The F.B.I!
Synopsis: Rogar wants to know where Prof Watson's lab is, so he kidnaps Jane in order to blackmail the professor.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bull Karten (villain)
First Line: When the Purple Trio hit Camp Craig, the boys get more of a show than they expect...
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Alex Blum's gloomy faces are not to be mistaken. Compare sample in Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

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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The Transmutation Machine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Spade (villain); Weasel (villain)
First Line: Attaboy gang !! I've got 'em covered !!
Synopsis: Doc's latest invention can transmute matter from one element to another.......just the thing Spade and Weasel are looking for.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Detective McGinty; Caraso
First Line: The wail of police sirens echo through the canyons of Manhattan as police cars and wagons roar uptown...
Synopsis: The Jester shuts down an illegal gambling joint masquerading as a charity.
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Pages: 5
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Burly Monahan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Ma Rankin; Burly Monahan; Sgt. Burns; Riley
First Line: Sometimes folks dream while they're wide awake.
Synopsis: Burly Monahan is out on parole and gunning for Rookie.
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Pages: 6
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Snow Valley

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Mickey Keene (movie star); kidnappers [Slippery; Red Coles; others unnamed] (villains)
First Line: At Snow Valley, America's smartest winter resort.
Synopsis: Criminals try to kidnap young movie star Micky Keene and Carol Martin in Snow Valley to hold them for ransom, but Wildfire foils their plans.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #2 published November 2003
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Pages: 5
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The Monster

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mystery
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
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Pages: 2

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