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Issue: Smash Comics #40 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1943
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Issues: #40 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
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Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 12/18/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gill Fox
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.
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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
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Midnight Vs. Bullets Balow

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall
Inker(s): Reed Crandall
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Midnight
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Robustia
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Pages: 1
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Midnight Vs. Bullets Balow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Robustia; Velvet; Bullets Balow (villain)
Synopsis: When Midnight plunged off a cliff, he finds himself in a circus in the Land of Flight, where he meets Velvet and Robustia, the Queen of Flight. They send him on his way in a rocket that disappears once he reaches home safely.
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Pages: 11
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The Battle of the Solomon Islands

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Toni Blum ?; Otto Binder ?
Penciller(s): Joe Kubert
Inker(s): Joe Kubert
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Espionage Starring Black X
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Baroness Elzia (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43).
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Another Iron Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Brenner
Penciller(s): George Brenner
Inker(s): George Brenner
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Bozo the Robot
Character(s): Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Homer Twipple (inventor); Iron Man (Twipple's invention, death)
Synopsis: A genius inventor creates a rather bumbling version of Bozo, which he could inhabit, much like Hazzard inhabited Bozo. However, Bozo soon proved that the Iron Man's suit was second rate, and Whipple manages to escape just before a group of mobsters blow it to kingdom come.
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Pages: 5
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The Crossbow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fred Guardineer
Penciller(s): Fred Guardineer
Inker(s): Fred Guardineer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): The Marksman
Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; The Cross Bow (villain)
Synopsis: The Marksman meets his match with his Nazi arch-foe, Cross Bow, who had killed several members of Povalski's resistence, and even took a bolt to the stomach from his enemy's weapon. However, he was saved by a protector made of cork that he wore under his costume, and the fight came down to fisticuffs, which the Baron won.
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Pages: 7
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A Destroyer Is Launched

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rudy Palais
Inker(s): Rudy Palais
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Ray
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud
Synopsis: The Ray witnesses a new Destroyer being sunk.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Last Golden Age appearance. Next appearance is in Justice League of America #107 (DC).
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Commando Invasion Practice

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
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Pages: 1
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Hoodlums, Inc.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Jester
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Sergeant Hustace McGinty; Gurgles (villain)
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Master Criminal Marak

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Witmer Williams
Inker(s): Witmer Williams
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Rookie Rankin
Character(s): Rankin; Marak
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Pages: 8
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Black Bouchard

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Cole
Penciller(s): Jack Cole
Inker(s): Jack Cole
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Wun Cloo
First Line: Hmm! ...A package for me...
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Pages: 1
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The Crow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Gabriele
Inker(s): Al Gabriele
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Yankee Eagle
Character(s): Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; The Crow
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Pages: 8

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