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Issue: Smash Comics #56

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Publication Date: December 1944

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Issues: #56 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: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 60

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Martin De Muth

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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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1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

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Content Items (11 total)

The Laughing Killer!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Midnight

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

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Pages: 1

The Laughing Killer

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]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop; Hotdog; Laughing Killer (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: Midnight tracks a killer who can't stop laughing.

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Pages: 11

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

Black X Marks the Spot

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Bill Quackenbush (signed)

Inker(s): Bill Quackenbush (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): Espionage Starring Black X

Character(s): Black X; Batu

Synopsis: The liberation of Taoten, in China. While Black X helps to organize the Chinese underground, Batu is captured by the Japanese.

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Pages: 8

The Boogie Woogie Dirge

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Mort Leav

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Rookie Rankin

Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Mel Marvel; Gus Getti; Tony Getti

Synopsis: A drug addict musician is mysteriously killed backstage.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Originally credited "Witmer Williams ?", but he has quite different faces with very bushy eyebrows and small mouth, narrow undistinct eyes and larger, rounded jaw. Looks more like Mort Leav's signed story in Power Comics #4, with movements, faces and large hands, but his many white panels without backgrounds are missing.

[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

First Line: Murder in the Ring

Synopsis: The Count gets mixed up with a fight promoter who's hoping to make a quick buck on a fixed match.

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The Spirit #7/4/1943 [unnamed variant] published July 1943
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Pages: 4

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

Feature(s): Archie O'Toole

First Line: The trouble with you, sire, is --

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz); Anna; Juan; Captain Hinushi (villain); Captain Kioto (villain)

First Line: Out of the snow-capped forest it came, this roaring monster from earth's dead past!

Synopsis: The Marksman has to battle a dinosaur in South America in order to uncover a Japanese poison gas plant.

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Pages: 7

Notes: This is the same artist as in #54.

Mountains of the Moon

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Jimmy Christian

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Pages: 2

Up with the U.S.A.!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Cole?

Inker(s): Jack Cole?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, mystery

Feature(s): Wun Cloo

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Milt Stein (signed)

Inker(s): Milt Stein (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, sports

Feature(s): Daffy

Character(s): Daffy Dill; Deke Parsons; Cobina Vanderast; Percy Harlow

First Line: The Vanderast Phantom

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Pages: 7

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Celeste (French maid); Bridget; Mister Palmer; Dennis Harpe; Myrna; Max Lubold

First Line: Patrolman Lane and Detective McGinty have just come off duty...

Synopsis: McGinty tries to arrange a double-date for Chuck, but someone poisoned the pie and the Jester has to sort through the clues.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Large hands and a great variety of faces and also some panels with empty white backgrounds point to Leav.