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Issue: Smash Comics #48

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Publication Date: November 1943

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- Lady Luck

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Issues: #48 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Quality Comics

Brand: Quality Comic Group

Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 60

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Martin DeMuth

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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

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1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

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Title Page

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Content Items (11 total)

Midnight Meets the Menace from Mars

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, superhero

Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey

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Pages: 1

Sinister Menace from Mars -- or Someplace

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, superhero

Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Professor Drizzpan

Synopsis: Something from space lands on Professor Drizzpan's property, and all he can think about is the interruption of his work. However, the rocket from Mars unleashes a strange mechanical creature that destroys homes with its death ray.

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Pages: 11

Notes: Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Murder Has a Bargain Day

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Mort Leav

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Rookie Rankin

Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Diana Dare (model); Mr. Grayson (manager)

Synopsis: A model in a department store is shot and killed by an unknown intruder.

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Pages: 8

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. Different inking.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Character(s): Black X; Batu

First Line: A hotel lobby in Istanbul...

Synopsis: Black X sneaks into Japan looking for the antidote to a new poison gas.

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Pages: 8

[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 (king)

First Line: We demand an audience!

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bart Tumey

Penciller(s): Bart Tumey

Inker(s): Bart Tumey

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, sports

Feature(s): Daffy

Character(s): Deke Parsons; Daffy Dill; Eph

First Line: Ray fer Daffy!

Synopsis: Deke tries to make money by staging a wrestling contest. The prize? Daffy.

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Pages: 7

The Magenta Diamond]

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]; a goldfish (narrator); Big Bernie (villain); Bernie's mob (villains)

First Line: I'm tellin' you boys.. I understand human nature.. I didn't live among people all these years for nothin'...

Synopsis: Big Bernie hides stolen jewels in his fish tank. Luckily the fish is on Lady Luck's side.

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Pages: 4

The Camera Is the Judge

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Jimmy Christian

Character(s): Jimmy Christian (detective); Bull Groton; Mitch Dallas

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Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, mystery

Character(s): Wun Cloo

First Line: Yes, Wun Cloo, this reform ray will eliminate crime entirely!

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, war

Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Schlagen (villain); Frauline Halunke (villain, death)

First Line: In Hitlerite Germany a secret conference takes place behind closed doors...

Synopsis: The Marksman faces an athletic German female agent, who suckers him into her web and discovers his dual identity. Before she can share the information, she is accidentally killed by her own men.

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In Content Item: Flag

Vixens, Vamps & Vipers #[nn] published January 2014
as Frauline Halunke [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

Ribbing Racketeers

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Jester [Chuck Lane]; J. J. Pilbeam; Gibb Greiner; McGinty

Synopsis: Mr. Pilbeam is running for governor and wants police protection.

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Pages: 7

Notes: This is similar to Leav's signed stories in Wanted Comics (Orbit-Wanted, 1947 series) #52.