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Issue: Smash Comics #44

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Publication Date: July 1943

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Issues: #44 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Quality Comics

Brand: Quality Comic Group

Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold

On Sale Date: 05/07/1943

Volume: none

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): George Brenner

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. 3.

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Format

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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Cover, Front

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Content Items (12 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Alex Kotzky

Inker(s): Alex Kotzky

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, superhero

Feature(s): Midnight

Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey

First Line: Wow, Midnight!

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Pages: 1

The Murder of Jinny Baloney

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: adventure, superhero

Feature(s): Midnight

Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot Foot; Bull Baloney; Johnny Peters; Jinny Baloney (death)

Synopsis: Bull Baloney "hires" Midnight to find out who murdered his wife. The hero uses a new invention of Doc's: a helium filled canoe for airborne escape.

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Pages: 11

Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Klaus Nordling (signed)

Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling (signed)

Inker(s): Klaus Nordling (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Lady Luck

Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count DiChange; counterfeit Lady Luck (villain)

First Line: Why Count DiChange.. I thought you'd been drafted

Synopsis: Count DiChange is suckered into buying phony war bonds from Lady Luck, and it isn't Brenda Banks!

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Pages: 4

The Song of Freedom

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): Bernard Sachs

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): Espionage With Black X

Character(s): Black X; Batu; General Volk; Barney Brand

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Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, mystery

Feature(s): Wun Cloo

Character(s): Wun Cloo (detective)

First Line: Allight! Allright! I'm comin'!

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, war

Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Polavski]; Anna

First Line: As this story opens we find him on the edge of the Colombian jungles of South American where horrible death strikes the unwary in this steaming land of tropical mystery.

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Pages: 7

[untitled]

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

Character(s): Archie O'Toole

First Line: This Alfred the Great was quite a king!

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Pages: 1

Little Atmos Fear

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gill Fox (signed)

Penciller(s): Gill Fox (signed)

Inker(s): Gill Fox (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, sports

Feature(s): Daffy

Character(s): Daffy Dill; Atmos Fear (villain)

Synopsis: Atmos Fear was cursed so that he could heat up to 300 degrees or down to -300. Daffy tied him up and used his abilities to heat and air condition her home!

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Pages: 7

Hurricane

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Rudy Palais ?

Inker(s): Rudy Palais ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Rookie Rankin

Character(s): Ki Kane; Sgt Burns; Casey

Synopsis: A hillbilly drinks a solution of synthetic rubber thinking it's moonshine.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Originally credited "Rudy Palais ?", but Palais has a very marked line from the eye down the cheek in sideview and also a peculiar blot as nostril not connected to the wing of the nose. Not him here.
The art is identical to William's other credited stories in this feature, #40 and #41, and his signed "Eagle Evans" story in Police Comics #1. Most faces in nearly frontview with only one ear showing, and very large rounded jaw and chin are special.

The Great Blight

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): Ludwig Hundt; Jimmy Christian; FBI Chief O'Brien; Army Lieutenant Gus Bockway

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Pages: 2

The High Priest of Yuan Chi

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Joe Cavallo (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Cavallo (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Yankee Eagle

Character(s): Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Yan Chi

Synopsis: Sharp and savage fighting against the invaders in the interior of old China.

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Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Paul Gustavson; Oscar Oople (villain); Terwilliger J. Thump (villain)

First Line: Combining our efforts to get back at McGinty for everything he has done for us is an idea worthy of the Nobel Prize, my little chum!

Synopsis: Oscar and Terwilliger concoct a plan to get even with McGinty by drugging him and dumping him into an old maids' home.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.