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Issue: Smash Comics #33 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1942
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Issues: #33 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: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gill Fox
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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): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); Bozo The Robot (inset)
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; the Japanese (villains)
First Line: American Correspondent, Prisoner of Japs!
Synopsis: Happy is sent to ride along with fighters over the Pacific, but the plane is shot down and he and the pilot are taken prisoner. The Ray takes out the entire squadron, then allows himself to be taken to a prison camp as a civilian. His retaliation incites the Japanese to kill all their prisoners, which forces the Ray to resurface. He carries a rack of bombs above the enemy naval forces and sinks three Japanese battleships.
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Pages: 9
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Bomber Test

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; the Japanese (villains)
Synopsis: Black X is supposed to help test a new Bomber but it is stolen by the Japs, with him in it!
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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)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: Problems, sire!
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bozo; Hugh Hazzard
First Line: A practice blackout throws into stygian darkness, the seething great city --
Synopsis: Hugh and Bozo have to stop the Nazis from stealing a new weapon.
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Pages: 5
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Rocky Lloyd

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wildfire; Rocky Lloyd; Mr. Martin; Mrs. Martin
Synopsis: Carol and her family are trapped in a Colorado cavern with some escaped criminals.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective McGinty
First Line: One night while on his beat, Chuck Lane sees something that means action...
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); The White Queen (villain, introduction)
First Line: What sinister mystery lies in wait for Dave Clark, alias Midnight, and his two assistants, Doc Wackey, the inventor, & Gabby, the talking monkey, as they seek game deep in the primitive Everglades of Florida????
Synopsis: A white jungle queen, who was descended from a former slaver who freed slaves, founds a hidden community of Africans in the Everglades. Not realizing slavery has been abolished, she and her men attack Clark and his friends. However, Midnight absconds with the Queen and shows her the truth about slavery, and she returns to her tribe to inform them.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
First Line: Halp! With a capital hal!
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Purple Trio [Tiny Todd; Warren; Rocky Hill]; Mrs. Van Norten; Professor Dawson; Fugi (villain)
First Line: We find the Purple Trio, standing nonchalantly on Broadway.
Synopsis: Japanese servants are secretly spies trying to kidnap Mrs. Van Norten's guests.
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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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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Wings Wendall
First Line: At the US Army base in Seattle Washington...
Synopsis: Wings stops a Japanese invasion of Alaska.
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Pages: 6
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The Nightmare Cruise

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
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Pages: 2
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The Wrong German

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Reicher; Joan
Synopsis: Rookie is sent to pick up an alien but gets the wrong one, and then gets locked up in the basement.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (introduction); Vorka (Baron's man-servant); Gadjoff
First Line: Nazi regional headquarters...
Synopsis: Baron Povalski disguises himself as Major Hurtz so that he can fight to save his native Poland, often as the costumed Marksman, working out of the tower of his castle.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Originally credited Bob Powell ? on script and Ed Cronin on art. The art is so similar to Koda's credited art in #36 and #37 that it most probaly is his, but the inking is not as spotty.

The Marksman leaves a symbolic red feather at the end of each story.

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