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Issue: Smash Comics #69 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1947
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Issues: #69 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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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
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Content Items: 10 (9 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
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Midnight gets the bird from Sir Nuts!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Cole (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Cole (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Bo
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Dog (a polar bear); Sir Nuts (a parrot); Ralph Raines (villain); Bo (villain)
First Line: When a dying man gave Midnight the bird, it didn't hurt his feelings...
Synopsis: A dying criminal wants to reveal all his underworld connections to Midnight.
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Pages: 11
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

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
Character(s): Wun Cloo (detective); Burglar
Synopsis: A burglar insists he is a contestant on a radio program that makes people do silly things.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sid Lazarus
Inker(s): Sid Lazarus
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Spunky
Character(s): Spunky; Marge (girl friend); Curly (rival); Pug (pal); Towser (bulldog)
First Line: Arf! Arf!
Synopsis: Marge has adopted a bulldog for a week.
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Pages: 7
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Rookie Rankin's Last Day on the Force

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Commissioner Enwright (villain); Kewpie (villain, black marketeer)
Synopsis: Before he is sacked, Rankin is going to prove Commissioner Enwright sells meat at double prices through the black market.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Originally credited "Arthur Peddy ?", but he has more crowded panels and awkward moving hands, pointed ears and more expressions on faces. Compare his Rookie Rankin in issue #35-36. This is similar art to the many Manhunter stories in Police Comics credited to Peter Riss on pencils. Probably a mix up by Who's Who, who has him only on ink. Notice flying figures when punched by Rankin, found in at least 12 of his credited Manhunter stories.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Bruce Banks [aka Bicford aka Fred J. Banks] (Brenda's father, book collector); Paul Pussyfoot (villain, printer); Boldface (villain, printer)
First Line: This Dickens book is quite old... 1837!
Synopsis: A fake Dickens first edition made by Pussyfoot & Boldface, printers, is sold to Bruce Banks, rare book collector.
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Pages: 4
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The Lost Rajah of Rashore

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dan Zolnerowich
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Black X
Character(s): Black X; Batu; Rajah of Lashore; Ajib; Nabob Tipu (villain)
Synopsis: A man is killed before he can tell Black X where to find the rightful ruler of Lashore.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Originally credited "Alex Blum?". Art identical to Zolne's credited Swing Sisson story in Feature Comics #111 and #119. Faces, way of standing with a bend in the hips and knees. Also the shuffling walking or running are special. The art has some resemblance to Alex Blum, but leg movement is quite different.
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The Camera Calls It Murder

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); Mac Baron (director); Glenwick (producer); Melnick (actor); Kurt Metz (actor); Otto Meisner (actor)
Synopsis: An actor is killed during a movie take.
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bart Tumey
Inker(s): Bart Tumey
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Feature(s): Daffy
Character(s): Daffy; Deke Parsons; Ezmereldy (wrestler)
First Line: Heh! Heh! Ah never do with mah muscles whut Ah kin do with a hex!
Synopsis: Daffy wrestles a giant hillbilly girl.
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Pete Riss
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Jester
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Quinopolis; Chowder Channay (villain, retired mobmaster)
First Line: No police officer is more soberly attentive...
Synopsis: The retired mobmaster can't take any joke and has a man killed for laughing.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Originally credited Ed Dobrotka as his name seemed to be barely visible as the author credit on a book, "Biography of a Comic Artist", in this story. The name on the book is something like J.D. Parkwust, not Dobrotka.
Art is similar art to the many Manhunter stories in Police Comics credited to Peter Riss on pencils.

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