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Issue: Smash Comics #58 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1945
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Issues: #58 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
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: 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Martin DeMuth
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby; Sniffer Snoop; Hotdog
First Line: Midnight nearly meets his doom at the hands of Doc Wackey!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Gabby and the Hypnosis Machine

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; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop; Hotdog; Vince McGonigle; Evil Eye Bixby (villain)
Synopsis: Doc Wackey invents a hypnosis machine that goes out of control and hypnotizes everybody except Gabby.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Same art as on Gustavson's signed story in previous issue.

All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Rollo the Firebug
First Line: Rookie Rankin gets a hotfoot!
Synopsis: Rookie Rankin chases Rollo the Firebug.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Similar art to the credited pencil work on Manhunter stories in Police Comics #37-#59 by Peter Riss. He is only credited on inking this feature, but that can be a typing error for pencils in Jerry Bails' Who's Who. The inking does not match his signed story in My Romantic Adventures #56.
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The Pangaray Adventure

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: Black X is sent to a neutral port to exchange prisoners with the Japanese.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Lady Luck
Character(s): Lady Luck; Mr. Pinch; Knuckles; Peecolo
First Line: I'm outa stir on good behavior, boys.
Synopsis: A gang is peddling opium and delivering it hidden in plants.
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In Content Item: FlagLady Luck #2 published October 1980
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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 (king)
First Line: You got me in the Kings' WHO'S WHO?
Synopsis: The king has got his name in the Who's Who, along with Napoleon and king Arthur.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Anna; Major Sinushi (villain)
First Line: Night and day the kindly natives nursed the suffering derelict, cast up out of the raging sea!
Synopsis: The Marksman and Anna travel through Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, and on to Nomua Island to battle one last time with Major Sinushi. Although the duo find themselves helpless victims of the mighty fury of the typhoon, the locals help them make it through alive, and they are seen in the closing panel awaiting their rescue from the tropical isle.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: This is the same art as in #54.

Last appearance of the Marksman.
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Blood

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
Character(s): Jimmy Christian (reporter)
Synopsis: About blood plasma and its use.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Disclose Notes: text story
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc.

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Everett M. Arnold
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Printed in Buffalo New York. Published by Smash Comics Inc., Lucas Point, Old Greenwich, CT. Editor: Martin DeMuth 415 Lexington Ave New York, NY.
Owners: Everett M. Arnold, Claire C. Arnold.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo
First Line: Phooie! No good murders all week!
Synopsis: Is posting bills legal or illegal on an empty wall?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Googoo Labelle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Milt Stein
Inker(s): Milt Stein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Feature(s): Daffy
Character(s): Googoo LaBelle; Daffy; Deke; Mangler Muggins
Synopsis: Daffy matches her might against the feminine magic of the glamorous Googoo LaBelle.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Same art as the signed story in #55.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jester; Trigger Barrow; McGinty; J. Pilbeam Cowell
First Line: Violence may be vulgar, Quinopolis -- but an uppercut is frequently well brought up!
Synopsis: Trigger and Pilbeam decide it'll be easier to commit crimes if one of them is disguised as the Jester.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Similar art to the credited pencil work on Manhunter stories in Police Comics #37-#59 by Peter Riss, but the inking does not match his signed story in My Romantic Adventures #56. The unique flying or hovering figure getting a punch on the jaw by Jester, can be found in at least 12 of those Manhunter stories.

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