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Issue: Smash Comics #36 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1942
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Issues: #36 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 08/14/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4.
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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]; Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset)
First Line: Another Midnight thriller
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Pages: 1
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The Death of Midnight!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); The Professor; Cyclops Ceylon (villain); Satan (villain); Mrs. Satan (villain)
Synopsis: Midnight tumbles to his death from a battle with Cyclops Ceylon, is declined entrance to heaven, and asks to be sent to Hell so he can fight the Devil himself, only to find out the Mrs. is in charge, who subjects him to unspeakable tortures. Meanwhile, a strange Professor bargains with Doc Wackey, and offers to exchange his life for Midnight's. The gambit works, and Midnight leaves Hell just as he'd convinced its inmates to revolt (and prevent further Nazi evils in the "waking world").
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Storyline continued in the next issue.

On the splash page, Gabby announced that the feature was now 9 pages in length (the 9 page stories actually begin with issue #35).
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The Vengeance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu (Espionage's aide); The Vengeance (villain, death); The Japanese (villains)
Synopsis: Black X and Batu head for the orient in search of the elusive "V Man" and are nearly destroyed by Vengeance.
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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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Exact Double

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Archie O'Toole
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Pages: 1
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Micky Kane

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin]; Micky Kane; Tom Kane (Micky's brother); group of thugs (villains)
Synopsis: Wildfire gives Micky Kane a special flame so that he can call her whenever he's in trouble, and he soon discovers a need for it when a group of hoods decides to pilfer an invention of Tom Kane.....a special antidote for poison gas!
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Johnson (bank teller); Professor (villain); Professor's gang (villains)
First Line: 14... 15... hang it!
Synopsis: The Professor creates a spray that reduces a person's size, so the Jester must face a gang of three inch tall bank robbers.
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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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The Scrap Metal HiJackers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Henry Vaun
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Pages: 5
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Hammer Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Terrill's newspaper editor; Hammer Hand (villain)
Synopsis: Happy Terrill, framed for bank robbery by Hammer Hand, a criminal with a mallet for a hand, is arrested for the crime and loses his job as reporter.
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Pages: 6
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The Whiner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; The Whiner
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
First Line: Come quick, Wun Cloo!
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Purple Trio [Warren; Rocky Hill; Tiny Todd]
First Line: A tall countess agrees to be Tiny's bride!
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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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The Wall of Invisible Fire

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
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Pages: 2
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Diane's Revenge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Wings Wendall; Westcott (dies); Diane Westcott
Synopsis: After Diane's father is killed, she and Wings fly a suicide mission over Germany to try and kill Hitler.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Wakovsky (Polish inventor); Adolf Hitler (villain)
First Line: Good! Another Nazi will die!!
Synopsis: Major Hurtz claims to have killed the Marksman as a way of getting invited to Berlin. There, he frees a Polish inventor and smuggles him to Africa in a bomb casing. After the Marksman has freed the Pole, Hitler himself reprimands Major Hurtz.
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Pages: 7

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