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Issue: Smash Comics #81 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1949
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Issues: #81 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Nancy Smith
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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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Midnight Doesn't Kid with Willie the Kid!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Foot (a polar bear); Willy the Kid
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Pages: 1
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Wanted Dead or Alive: Willie the Kid

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Foot (a polar bear); Willie the Kid (villain); Bankjob Burrows (villain)
Synopsis: Bankjob Burrows tries to frame an old retired gunhawk named Willie the Kid for a modern bank job.
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Pages: 11
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Citronella; Awful Rumpus; Mr. Mazuma; Igor Twirlsky
First Line: You're head is supposed to twirl in the same direction as your body
Synopsis: Citronella tries to pass her pop off as a ballet master.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: last appearance
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Archie O'Toole (king)
First Line: But where's His Royal Majesty?
Synopsis: The king is out playing with his model plane.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Final appearance in Smash Comics. One last Archie O'Toole story will be in All Humor Comics (Quality Comics, 1946 Series) #16 (October 1949).
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The Face of Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Black X; Batu; Leatrice Lane; Beef Burton; Groland Caskill; Silas Morton
Synopsis: A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her dead boss.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Faces, figures in bird view, hands and foreshortening movements of figures, and many close ups are all very much like Rosenberger's work on The Fly #13 and others in that series. His protuding lower lips seems to be changed by the inker, but hints can be seen on page 5.
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The Zebra Club

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Herb Sinkwater; Giraffe Tentoes (villain)
Synopsis: The Giraffe doesn't like that another night spot has opened up on his block.
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Pages: 4
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Four Secret Steps to Mastery Over Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Batch Bachelor; Bunny Bananas; Grandma
Synopsis: Bunny and Grandma conspire against Batch
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: next app. in CRACK COMICS #61
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Sniffer Snoop's Fadeout

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Dave Clark; Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Foot (a polar bear); Macabre Monty (villain)
Synopsis: Doc has come up with a new formula that makes tadpoles invisible.
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Pages: 2
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The Great Mongolie

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Laner]; Sergeant McGinty; Richard Carlson; Mongolie (villain)
Synopsis: The great Mongolie purloins valuables during his magic act.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Sam Citron, but the outstretched leg movement and especially some V-shaped faces with eyes far apart must be Riss, and the inking is not far from his signed story in My Romantic Adventure #56.
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Love Match

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Character(s): Daffy; Deke; Jerome
Synopsis: Daffy falls in love and doesn't want to wrestle any more.
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Pages: 6

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