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Issue: Smash Comics #41 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: 01/15/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): George Brenner
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.
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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
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Paul Gustavson
Paul Gustavson
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Subject Matter
adventure
Midnight
Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Daffy (inset)
Hey, Doc! You've got to remember how to turn this thing off!
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Miscellaneous
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All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Kid Eternity; Mr. Keeper; Captain Triumph
Boy! Oh, boy! Two! Two tremendous new features!
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Paul Gustavson
Paul Gustavson
Paul Gustavson
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Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
adventure, superhero
Midnight
Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); O'Toole; Private Klink
Golly, but it's cold in here!
Doc Wackey shows his latest gadget to the army and destroys half the city in the process.
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Miscellaneous
11
The Amber Trap

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Otto Binder ?
Joe Kubert
Joe Kubert
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?
Subject Matter
espionage
Espionage Starring Black X
Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Madame Doom (villain); Professor Stultz (villain); Colonel Atwater; Ted Winston; Bob; Anderson; Waterson
Madame Doom is killing people with plastic to make them horrifying exhibits to demoralize the Allies.
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Miscellaneous
8
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).
Collecting Scrap

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
George Brenner
George Brenner
George Brenner
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Bozo the Robot
Henry Doaks; Elmer; Percy; Hugh Hazzard
Kids gather scrap metal for the war effort, then get into a scrape over who owns the scrap.
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Miscellaneous
5
Last appearance.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Paul Gustavson
Paul Gustavson
Paul Gustavson
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Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
superhero
The Jester
The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Penelope (villain); Lady Satan (villain)
Well, well!... The obituary notices!
McGinty, upset when he reads his own obituary in the paper, along with the Jester, barely escape Lady Satan, who is the strongarm for a woman that marries men for their life insurance policies.
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Miscellaneous
7
The Quality Companion states that Gustavson created this feature and did it the first two years of its existence.
Heiress Still Missing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Al Gabriele (signed)
Al Gabriele (signed)
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?
Subject Matter
adventure
Yankee Eagle
Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Dinah Shane; Wenner
Larry gets hired for a stunt job, but it's all a plot to pin a murder on him, if he doesn't die in the stunt that is.
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Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Cole (signed)
Jack Cole (signed)
Jack Cole (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous, mystery
Wun Cloo
Wun Cloo; Sam
Is velly bad! Not one murder all veek!
While walking around town Wun hears the tailor offering to give someone a cuff in the pants.
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1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Fred Guardineer [as Fred] (signed)
Fred Guardineer [as Fred] (signed)
Fred Guardineer [as Fred] (signed)
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Fred Guardineer ?
Subject Matter
adventure, war
The Marksman
The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Dr. Valdu (villain); Shamar Valdu; Schultz-Klink; Abdul; Zoga
Where Truth Laughs at Fiction..And Death is not the End
The Marksman is in El Nefud to get a cure for a disease from a discredited doctor.
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Miscellaneous
7
Man of Fire

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
adventure
Jimmy Christian
Tarku; Bannock; Jimmy Christian; Jack Nicols; Geld van Staadt
Jimmy learns of a tribe torturing white men by stretching them out.
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Miscellaneous
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Hendrickson; Blackhawk; Olaf; Chop-Chop
Another swell Blackhawk story is now in the April issue of Military Comics on sale February 10th
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Miscellaneous
0.33
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gill Fox
Gill Fox
Gill Fox
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Subject Matter
adventure, humorous, sports
Daffy and Deke
Daffy Dill (introduction); Deke Parsons (villain, wrestling manager)
C'mon Daffy. Make it snappy. We've got a dinner date, and I'm famished!
Daffy searches for Deke, her former (crooked) wrestling manager, who has fled to the big city.
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Miscellaneous
7
Story reads like there were earlier chapters, but there weren't.

Daffy is an Amazonian woman wrestler.
The Spider's Web

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Witmer Williams
Witmer Williams
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?
Subject Matter
mystery
Rookie Rankin
Rookie Rankin; The Spider; Dagger; Letti; Joe
The Spider runs a protection racket, and Rookie is determined to break him.
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Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Metro Publications
Free with this offer 33 power telescope lens kit
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?; ? (photograph)
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typeset
Subject Matter
American Seed Company
Hurry! Hurry! Sell seeds for victory gardens
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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