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Issue: Smash Comics #37 Public Domain
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
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Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 09/16/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gill Fox
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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Gill Fox ?
Gill Fox ?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, superhero
Midnight
Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Rookie Ranking (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset)
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Miscellaneous
1
Doc Wackey Goes Berserk!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Cole
Jack Cole
Tony DiPreta
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, superhero
Midnight
Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby; Skull Duggery; The Professor
The mysterious Professor returns for Doc Wackey's life, and uses Doc to create and test a super-speed formula. Wackey ends up with super speed, which he proceeds to dedicate to a life of crime! Midnight took the serum himself just to keep up with Doc, but it eventually wears off.
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Miscellaneous
9
Inker credit to DiPreta per the Quality Companion.
Rescuing Papa

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Toni Blum ?; Otto Binder ?
Alex Kotzky (signed)
Alex Kotzky (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
espionage
Espionage Starring Black X
Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Tinka Van Doorne (Peter's daughter); Peter Van Doorne
A little girl asks Black X to rescue her father who is being held by the Nazis behind enemy lines.
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Miscellaneous
6
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).
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bernard Dibble
Bernard Dibble
Bernard Dibble
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Archie O'Toole
Sure, I know we need a queen...
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Paul Gustavson (signed)
?
Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
superhero
The Jester
The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Tough Tony; Dagger Joe (villain); Trigger (villain)
Hey... flatfoot... is th' sidewalk so small y' gotta get yourself tangled up in me feet?!
Chuck Lane asks that the toughest juvenile offender be paroled into his custody.
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Miscellaneous
5
The Quality Companion states that Gustavson created this feature and did it the first two years of its existence.
Dean of Darkness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Turner (signed)
Jim Mooney (signed)
Jim Mooney
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Wildfire
Dean of Darkness; Wildfire
The Dean of Darkness tries to hold Carol Martin for ransom, not realizing she's Wildfire.
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Miscellaneous
5
last appearance
The Kidnapping of Peter Percy Gotgelt III

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]
George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]
George Brenner
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Bozo the Robot
Peter Percy Gotgelt III; Hugh Hazzard; Bozo; The Terrible Trio
A trio of kidnappers find a little boy too much to handle.
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Miscellaneous
5
The Frozen Lands of the Midnight Sun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Reed Crandall
Reed Crandall
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Ray
The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud
The Ray searches for a spy who has ferreted out plans for an allied invasion of Norway.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Arthur Peddy (signed)
Arthur Peddy
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Rookie Rankin
Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Artie
A g-man is loose among the crooks, and Ma Rankin is loose among the cops...
Rankin breaks up a counterfeiting ring that makes phony rationing coupons.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Cole
Jack Cole
Jack Cole
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, mystery
Wun Cloo
Wun Cloo (detective)
Wun Cloo think new Chinese restaurant cover up...
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)
Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
The Purple Trio
The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd]; Peters (villain)
The boys are off for a day at the zoo...
A disgruntled zoo employee lets the animals loose to get revenge on the zoo director.
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Miscellaneous
5
Last appearance.

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.
Spy

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
adventure
Jimmy Christian
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Miscellaneous
2
The Undersea Wolf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Vernon Henkel (signed)
Vernon Henkel (signed)
Vernon Henkel
?
?
Subject Matter
aviation
Wings Wendall
Wings Wendall; Captain Kroll; Spinner Benson
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Miscellaneous
6
last appearance
The Amazing Adventures of the Three Shadows

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Alex Koda (signed)
Alex Koda (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, war
The Marksman
The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; The Three Shadows (introduction for all); Schtuper (villain)
A Czech, an Austrian and a Pole escape from a concentration camp and join the underground as the Three Shadows, through whom the Marksman smuggles Nazi war plans to the British.
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Miscellaneous
7
The artist signed at the bottom of the last page.

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