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Issue: Smash Comics #8 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1940
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
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Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 01/19/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (18 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date and volume number from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 448094. The on-sale date was confirmed in the previous issue.

E. M. Arnold, 1213 W. 3rd St., Cleveland, Ohio [printer's address]. Business and editorial offices, Gurley Building, 322 Main St., Stamford, Conn.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Bozo the Robot; Black X; Wings Wendall; Archie O'Toole; Invisible Hood
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
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Miscellaneous
1
inside front cover. Red and black only.
The Rescue of Gale Payson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
espionage
Gale Payson; Nazis; Madame Doom; Steve Dorgan; Colonel Atwater; Batu
Once more armies tread the battle fields of 1917...
Black X has to rescue an American reporter from Germany and once again goes up against Madame Doom.
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Miscellaneous
9
An Eerie Episode of Signs and Shadows

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Philpot Veep; Waldo
Speak up, man...
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Miscellaneous
2
Dunn's Double

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
sports
Clip Chance; Coach Barr; Trainer Hunt; Bob Dunn; Slick (villain)
Clip - I hear Coach Barr won't be on the bench...
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Miscellaneous
4
The Arabec Oil Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Abdul the Arab; Hassan; Stanley Rice (introduction); Holden (villain, introduction)
We know the oil is being stolen...
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Miscellaneous
4
The Case of the Missing Bullion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Captain Cook; The Chief; Inspector Niven (introduction, death)
A shipment of gold bullion...
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Miscellaneous
4
"Bucky" Wells

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
sports
"Bucky" Wells
He says he's so tired...
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Miscellaneous
1
Sabotage!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Adolf Zhun (villain); Herzog (villain); un-named Batzi spies (villains)
President proclaims strict neutrality.
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Miscellaneous
7
In addressing the world at war in Quality Comics, Brenner did like many of the other writers by giving his villains names like "Hitlin" and "Batzis".
Utopia

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
King Archie O'Toole; Montgomery; Ipswitch
Let me tell ya...
Pyromania is converted into a utopia and all the people get bored and move away.
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Miscellaneous
2
The Star of Egypt

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Chic Carter; Professor Lansing; Brenda Lansing; Hoteb; The Chief (villain)
I wonder what's up?
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Miscellaneous
4
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Floow that car!
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Miscellaneous
1
Five unrelated gag panels.
The Voodoo Master of Unionville

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Tom; The Voodoo Master (villain, introduction, death)
At the Unionville Steel Mill...
The Hood faces the Voodoo Master, who operates from within an island, and who is killed by the Hood with a sword through the chest.
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Miscellaneous
5
The feature is called Invisible Justice but the character is called the Invisible Hood.

The Art Gordon signature appears at the bottom right of the last panel of the last page of the story.
Mission in the Amazon Jungle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Flash Fulton; Andy; Roger Hart; Carter
Flash, draw $5,000 for expenses...
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Miscellaneous
4
The Winged Emeralds

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (illustration)
? (illustration)
? (story title, illustration)
typeset
Subject Matter
adventure
Jimmy Christian
Jimmy Christian
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Miscellaneous
2
J.S. Sargent

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
informational, non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
1
Danger In Numbers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
John Law; Albert Mills; June Carter; The Avenger; Lewis
What? I'll be right over, Mills!
The Avenger is finally exposed.
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Miscellaneous
5
The Wrestling Match

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, mystery
Wun Cloo; Mukwa
The town in which Wun Cloo lives...
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Miscellaneous
2
The Bombing of the Tennessee Valley Dam

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, aviation
Wings Wendall; The Nazis; Jean Drake (introduction); Colonel Jordan
Breaking through the mist of early dawn...
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Miscellaneous
7
Read Smash Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover.

Promotional house advertisement promoting Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) and its features.
I Swam for My Life and Won!

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (ad copy)
? (photographs)
? (photographs)
?
typeset (ad copy); ? (comic art)
Subject Matter
adventure
Robert Spiers Benjamin; Benjamin's unnamed secretary; unnamed typewriter salesman; Pedro; Albert Tangora (photograph of)
True-to-life experience suggested by the adventures of Robert Spiers Benjamin...
Benjamin's Royal Portable typewriter survives several disasters in a South American adventure.
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover. The feature is oblong on the page.

Comic-form advertisement for the Royal Portable typewriter from the Royal Typewriter Company, Inc. of New York, N. Y.

Includes a testimonial from Albert Tangora, the world's fastest typest.

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