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Issue: Smash Comics #74 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1947
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Issues: #74 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 10/03/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1946-1947 Periodicals, page 352.
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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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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Midnight; Doc Wackey; Gabby
First Line: Midnight cleans up crime!
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Masked Mayhem

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight; Doc Wackey; Gabby; Sniffer Snoop; Hotfoot; Masked Mayhem; Killer Drake; Mooch; Pooch
Synopsis: Doc and Sniffer buy a boxer's contract and then find out he can't box.
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Pages: 11
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Department Store Story

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Genres: humorous, sports
Character(s): Daffy; Deke; Mudder; Oswald
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Pages: 6
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective McGinty; Kerry (eatery proprietor, death); Lula (villain, eatery patron); Mr. Molluc (villain, soldier-of-fortune)
First Line: Who killed Kerry?
Synopsis: The Jester investigates the death of a local eatery owner, and when Lulu, a witness to the murder, gives varying descriptions of the killer to Detective McGinty, Chuck Lane smells a rat, two of them.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Mrs. Van Dotage (banquet host)
First Line: We'd be honored to have you as guest of honah..........
Synopsis: Lady Luck is invited to a special banquet by the Montrose Alumnae Association to receive an honorary degree. The problem is that the host has taken ill and has decided that Brenda Banks should take over and be the one to introduce Lady Luck.
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Shipmate's Story

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Batch Bachelor; Bunny Bananas; Shipmate
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Big Bee Business

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
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Disclose Notes: Midnight text story
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Bubble Gum Blues

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Genres: childrens, humorous, teen
Character(s): Spunky; Curly; Marge; Pug; Marge's father; Marge's mother; radio announcer; Irwin Dubble
First Line: Good evening, folks! This is the Dubble Bubble Gum hour!
Synopsis: In a bubble gum bubble-blowing radio contest, Spunky and Pug cheat by using a hot air hose to blow a huge bubble. The contest sponsor gives Spunky two boxes of bubble gum to practice for the next night's show. The next night, on the air, Spunky hands the announcer a note saying he practiced so much he has lockjaw.
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Disclose Notes: Final appearance.
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The Lady of the Pearls!

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Genres: espionage
Character(s): Black X [Richard Spencer]; Batu; Inspector Beef Burton; Count Morado's daughter; Graspon (villain); Graspon's gang (villains)
Synopsis: Black X and Batu come across two ruffians trying to load a coffin into a truck. The men flee, and the coffin is taken to Black X's apartment where a man named Graspon wishes to buy it for $20,000. When X refuses the offer and Graspon leaves, X opens the coffin to discover the living but unconscious body of a beautiful girl. Graspon meanwhile goes out to hire thugs to forcibly take the coffin and contents away from X.
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