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Issue: Smash Comics #44 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1943
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Issues: #44 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 05/07/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 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. 3.
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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
Penciller(s): Alex Kotzky
Inker(s): Alex Kotzky
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey
First Line: Wow, Midnight!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Murder of Jinny Baloney

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot Foot; Bull Baloney; Johnny Peters; Jinny Baloney (death)
Synopsis: Bull Baloney "hires" Midnight to find out who murdered his wife. The hero uses a new invention of Doc's: a helium filled canoe for airborne escape.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Klaus Nordling (signed)
Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling (signed)
Inker(s): Klaus Nordling (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Lady Luck
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count DiChange; counterfeit Lady Luck (villain)
First Line: Why Count DiChange.. I thought you'd been drafted
Synopsis: Count DiChange is suckered into buying phony war bonds from Lady Luck, and it isn't Brenda Banks!
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Pages: 4
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The Song of Freedom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): Bernard Sachs
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Espionage With Black X
Character(s): Black X; Batu; General Volk; Barney Brand
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Wun Cloo
Character(s): Wun Cloo (detective)
First Line: Allight! Allright! I'm comin'!
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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: adventure, war
Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Polavski]; Anna
First Line: As this story opens we find him on the edge of the Colombian jungles of South American where horrible death strikes the unwary in this steaming land of tropical mystery.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bernard Dibble
Penciller(s): Bernard Dibble
Inker(s): Bernard Dibble
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Archie O'Toole
Character(s): Archie O'Toole
First Line: This Alfred the Great was quite a king!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Little Atmos Fear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gill Fox (signed)
Penciller(s): Gill Fox (signed)
Inker(s): Gill Fox (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Feature(s): Daffy
Character(s): Daffy Dill; Atmos Fear (villain)
Synopsis: Atmos Fear was cursed so that he could heat up to 300 degrees or down to -300. Daffy tied him up and used his abilities to heat and air condition her home!
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Pages: 7
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Hurricane

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rudy Palais ?
Inker(s): Rudy Palais ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Rookie Rankin
Character(s): Ki Kane; Sgt Burns; Casey
Synopsis: A hillbilly drinks a solution of synthetic rubber thinking it's moonshine.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Originally credited "Rudy Palais ?", but Palais has a very marked line from the eye down the cheek in sideview and also a peculiar blot as nostril not connected to the wing of the nose. Not him here.
The art is identical to William's other credited stories in this feature, #40 and #41, and his signed "Eagle Evans" story in Police Comics #1. Most faces in nearly frontview with only one ear showing, and very large rounded jaw and chin are special.
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The Great Blight

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Ludwig Hundt; Jimmy Christian; FBI Chief O'Brien; Army Lieutenant Gus Bockway
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Pages: 2
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The High Priest of Yuan Chi

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Cavallo (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Cavallo (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Yankee Eagle
Character(s): Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Yan Chi
Synopsis: Sharp and savage fighting against the invaders in the interior of old China.
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Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Paul Gustavson; Oscar Oople (villain); Terwilliger J. Thump (villain)
First Line: Combining our efforts to get back at McGinty for everything he has done for us is an idea worthy of the Nobel Prize, my little chum!
Synopsis: Oscar and Terwilliger concoct a plan to get even with McGinty by drugging him and dumping him into an old maids' home.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

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