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Issue: Smash Comics #47 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1943
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Issues: #47 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: 1943
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Martin DeMuth
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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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Wanted! Midnight -- Dead or Alive! $1,000,000 Reward!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby; Doc Mortimer Wackey
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Pages: 1
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Wanted! Midnight -- Dead or Alive! $1,000,000 Reward!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot Dog; Brains Baroni (villain); Stilleto (villain); Bruiser (villain)
First Line: I think someone doesn't like me!
Synopsis: The underworld puts out a million dollar bounty on Midnight, but no one wants to collect on it until Brains Baroni offers a fool-proof, no risk way to get rid of Midnight.
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From Issue: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #93 published September 2014In black-and-white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Archie O'Tool (king); Hanratty
First Line: I am ashamed to admit...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Great White Way

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Character(s): Daffy; Null and Void (producers); 10 Percent (an agent); a plumber
Synopsis: Daffy suddenly finds herself as a star in a Broadway show with a possible murder on her hands.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script revision from Tumey to ? by Craig Delich. The Who's Who does not indicate that Tumey wrote this feature and no extant evidence proves that he did. The Who's Who also indicates that Tumey only drew Daffy from 1946-49. Other listed artists include Milt Stein in 1945 and Janice Valleau from 1945-46.
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Tibet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Black X; Batu; The Grand Lama; Tura
Synopsis: The Grand Lama brings Black X to his land to investigate his would-be successor.
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Pages: 8
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The Notorious Yokukasa Brothers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Peecolo; Pinky; Yokukasa Brothers (villains)
First Line: Ah, is enough explosive there to destroy all important buildings in city!.
Synopsis: The Yokukasa Brothers disguise themselves as children in order to plant bombs
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Pages: 4
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Rookie Rankin Takes the Payoff

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Sloop Tager; Boss Pete Pinero
Synopsis: Rookie tries to put a stop to a gambling racket run by Sloop Tager
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Originally credited "Witmer Williams ?", but does not match his other credited stories in this features. Compared with Leav's signed story in Power Comics #4, everything matches, face of the policeman, large hands, way of running with high lifted knees and some panels without backgrounds. Only the inking is different from his signed story.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo
First Line: Take that!
Synopsis: Wun discovers a big fellow beating up someone because of a poster he sees that he mis-interprets.
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Pages: 1
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Another William Tell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; the Nazis (villains); the Japanese [Mito; others un-named] (villains, some die)
Synopsis: Major Hurtz welcomes a delegation of Japanese delegates who have come to Poland to help plan for future attacks on their enemies, and they have the cruelest plan ever to try and smoke out the Marksman.
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From Issue: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #93 published September 2014In black-and-white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Black Doom

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
Character(s): Jimmy Christian (detective); Gabrielle Dupard (Mystery Woman); Pierre Dupard
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Mary Slade

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Mary Slade; Mary Slade's brother (death); Kelsey (a Policeman); John Hadley (villain, Mary's cousin); Irwin (villain, Hadley's butler)
Synopsis: A young girl is framed for her brother's murder, and the Yankee Eagle ends up nabbing her cousin for the crime as well as him using a secret radio transmitter to forward vital information for the Japanese.
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From Issue: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #93 published September 2014In black-and-white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Last appearance.
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The Adventure of Stoneface!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Stoneface (villain); Rad Romsey (villain, gang chief); Vikko Voroni (villain, death); Whiffy (villain, death)
Synopsis: Stoneface has found his way to the hidden headquarters of Rad Romsey, gang chief, to offer his help in killing the Jester, just as he killed off Romsey's partner, Vikko Voroni.
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #93 published September 2014In black-and-white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: This is probably Leav, as it is very similar to his signed stories in Wanted Comics (Orbit-Wanted, 1947 series) #52.

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