XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: Smash Comics #46 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1943
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #46 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: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Martin DeMuth
Disclose Notes:  
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
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
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (12 total)
Disclose Issue Images
Twelve Hours to Live!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Kotzky
Inker(s): Alex Kotzky
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
Twelve Hours to Live!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson
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); Dr. R.X. Diapetos; Cyril Potts (villain)
Synopsis: Potts thinks he has 12 hours to live, so he's going to spend it killing everyone who was ever mean to his cats.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the cover.

All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Disclose
The Yokukasa Brothers

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]; Sgt. Sloburn; Yokukasa Brothers (villains)
First Line: Daily the sun rises out of the Atlantic and shines warmly down on a seaboard state
Synopsis: Japanese statesmen, imprisoned since the start of the war, attempt to escape by using their skills as acrobats.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose
The Good Neighbor Policy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Inker(s): Vernon Henkel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Yankee Eagle
Character(s): Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Senor Diego Otilla; Tailspin Todd
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose
Adventure in India

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernard Sachs
Inker(s): Bernard Sachs
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Espionage Starring Black X
Character(s): Black X; Batu
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose
Mystery of the Green Dragon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Witmer Williams
Inker(s): Witmer Williams
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Rookie Rankin
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Light Finger Lefty
Synopsis: Rankin was an innocent bystander to the death of two people.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
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.
Disclose
[untitled]

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: That tough-axle ambassador just landed on a cruiser
Synopsis: King Archie reads a book on "How to Win and Control People" but the book's advice doesn't prove helpful with a hostile ambassador.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Colonel Sondra (villain)
First Line: Teki wa korida!
Synopsis: As the Baron spends less and less time as Major Hurtz, he inevitably learns for himself the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Marksman goes so far as to hunt down a particularly hated Nazi officer named Colonel Sondra, who attempts to escape from the Marksman by offering his services to Japan.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose
The Mole Men

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
Character(s): Jimmy Christian
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Wun Cloo
First Line: Wun Cloo! Someone's cutting pieces our of peoples' clothing!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
A Triumph of Mind over Matter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Feature(s): Daffy
Character(s): Daffy Dill; C. Pott
Synopsis: Daffy takes a course to increase her brain power.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Mischa McBeth (death); Horatio Hubdub (villain)
First Line: Well... Mister McGinty... what do you think of th' murder for my story?
Synopsis: Mischa McBeth is murdered in a locked room with no windows, but there's no gun, and it's driving McGinty crazy.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The Quality Companion states that Gustavson created this feature and did it the first two years of its existence.

This was Gustavson's last work on this feature.

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2024. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.