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Issue: Smash Comics #15 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1940
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Issues: #15 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 08/16/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.
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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 On-Going Series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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The Man in the Iron Mask

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gill Fox ?
Inker(s): Gill Fox ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Ray
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Wings Wendall (inset); Bozo the Robot (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Archie O'Toole (inset)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Fort Johnson Blown Up

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner [as Will Erwin] (signed)
Penciller(s): Will Eisner [as Will Erwin, with some help from the shop] (signed)
Inker(s): Will Eisner [as Will Erwin, with some help from the shop] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Espionage Starring Black X
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Frits Moronoff (villain)
Synopsis: Black X stops saboteurs from blowing up the Golder Dam.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name) until he left the feature after 1940. It also became a house by-line as well for future writers.
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Chic Covers the Opera

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel
Inker(s): Vernon Henkel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Chic Carter
Character(s): Chic Carter; Sgt. Monahan; The Phantom
Synopsis: Carter searches for a phantom killer in an opera house.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gill Fox (signed)
Penciller(s): Gill Fox (signed)
Inker(s): Gill Fox
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Wun Cloo
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Murder in the Wings

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Alux Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)
Inker(s): Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Purple Trio
Character(s): The Purple Trio: [Rocky Hill; Tiny Todd; Warren]; Sandra Starr
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who indicates that S. M. Regi was a pen-name sometimes used by Jerry Iger, but also by others as a house by-line. It further indicates that Jerry Iger did not write this feature, but that Alex Blum, under this pen-name or by-line, did draw the strip.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Brenner ?
Inker(s): George Brenner ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Feature(s): Clip Chance at Cliffside
Character(s): Clip Chance; Spud Doyle; Gill Fox
Synopsis: Clip plays baseball for a change, but still runs afoul of gamblers, gets clonked on the head, and has to parachute into the middle of the fifth inning in order to save the team.
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Devlin
Penciller(s): John Devlin
Inker(s): John Devlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Small Stuff
First Line: Who knows what this sign means?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Evening in the Oriental Museum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Art Pinajian ? [as Art Gordon]
Inker(s): Art Pinajian ? [as Art Gordon]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Invisible Justice
Character(s): Kent Thurston; Ruhle; Nolan; Robbins; Betty Robbins
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Cadava the Crumbler

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Ray
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Diane; Soo Choo; Cadava the Crumbler (villain, death)
Synopsis: Cadava, a once handsome man turned bitter from society's scorn, unleashes a destructive ray on the city, but dies in struggling with the Ray. To help reconstruct the city, the Ray creates a giant form of himself to lift large building materials into place.
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In Content Item: FlagAce Comics Presents #4 published November 1987
as Cadava the Crumbler [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Tuska [as Bud Thomas]
Penciller(s): George Tuska [as Bud Thomas]
Inker(s): George Tuska [as Bud Thomas]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Archie O'Toole
First Line: So this is Mexico
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Bobby Feller

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gill Fox
Penciller(s): Gill Fox (signed)
Inker(s): Gill Fox
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Feature(s): Sportraits
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Coward

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert M. Hyatt
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: text story
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Vulcan Metz

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Inker(s): Vernon Henkel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Wings Wendall
Character(s): Wings Wendall; Vulcan Metz; Diane
Synopsis: Wings' place is taken by a German spy who hopes to steal an American plane being delivered to the allies.
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Magno, the Magnetic Man
Character(s): Magno [Tom Dalton]; Mike; Bob Green; Weasel (villain); Spatelle (villain)
First Line: A gunblast shatters the stillness of the night
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Shara

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell [as Powell Roberts]
Inker(s): Bob Powell [as Powell Roberts]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Abdul the Arab
Character(s): Abdul; Hassan; Princess Shara; Achmed
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Ghost Gang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Brenner ? [as Wayne Reid]
Inker(s): George Brenner ? [as Wayne Reid]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Bozo the Robot
Character(s): Bozo; Hugh Hazzard; Ghost Gang
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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