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Issue: Smash Comics #74 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1947
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Issues: #74 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Nancy Smith
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Midnight; Doc Wackey; Gabby
First Line: Midnight cleans up crime!
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Pages: 1
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Masked Mayhem

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Cole
Inker(s): Jack Cole
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
Character(s): Midnight; Doc Wackey; Gabby; Sniffer Snoop; Hotfoot; Masked Mayhem; Killer Drake; Mooch; Pooch
Synopsis: Doc and Sniffer buy a boxer's contract and then find out he can't box.
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Pages: 11
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Department Store Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bart Tumey ?
Inker(s): Bart Tumey ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Feature(s): Daffy
Character(s): Daffy; Deke; Mudder; Oswald
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Pages: 6
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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 McGinty; Kerry (eatery proprietor, death); Lula (villain, eatery patron); Mr. Molluc (villain, soldier-of-fortune)
First Line: Who killed Kerry?
Synopsis: The Jester investigates the death of a local eatery owner, and when Lulu, a witness to the murder, gives varying descriptions of the killer to Detective McGinty, Chuck Lane smells a rat, two of them.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Klaus Nordling (signed)
Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling (signed)
Inker(s): Klaus Nordling (signed)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Lady Luck
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Mrs. Van Dotage (banquet host)
First Line: We'd be honored to have you as guest of honah..........
Synopsis: Lady Luck is invited to a special banquet by the Montrose Alumnae Association to receive an honorary degree. The problem is that the host has taken ill and has decided the Brenda Banks should take over and be the one to introduce Lady Luck.
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Shipmate's Story

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bart Tumey ?
Inker(s): Bart Tumey ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Batch Bachelor
Character(s): Batch Bachelor; Bunny Bananas; Shipmate
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Pages: 6
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Big Bee Business

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Midnight
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Midnight text story
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Bubble Gum Blues

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sid Lazarus
Inker(s): Sid Lazarus
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Spunky
Character(s): Spunky; Curly; Marge; Pug
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Pages: 6
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The Lady of the Pearls!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Black X [Richard Spencer]; Batu; Inspector Beef Burton; Count Morado's daughter; Graspon (villain); Graspon's gang (villains)
Synopsis: Black X and Batu come across two ruffians trying to load a coffin into a truck. The men flee, and the coffin is taken to Black X's apartment where a man named Graspon wishes to buy it for $20,000. When X refuses the offer and Graspon leaves, X opens the coffin to discover the living but unconscious body of a beautiful girl. Graspon meanwhile goes out to hire thugs to forcibly take the coffin and contents away from X.
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