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Issue: Smash Comics #17 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1940
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Issues: #17 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 10/18/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.
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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 ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bozo the Robot (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston] (inset)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Music Hath Charm

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Stradivous (villain, introduction, death); Jennings (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: The musician Stradivous, who can hypnotize anyone with his clarinet, works with Jennings to hijack a shipment of gold.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #252 published June 1972
as Music Hath Charm [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDC 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-13 published June 1972
as A Modern Pied Piper [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #501 [Direct Sales] published July 1983
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper Adventure Comic #68 published ?
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Mystery of the Five Talking Mummies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Purple Trio [Warren; Rocky Hill; Tiny Todd]
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who indicates that S. M. Regi was a pen-name sometimes used by Jerry Iger, but also by others as a house by-line. It further indicates that Jerry Iger did not write this feature, but that Alex Blum, under this pen-name or by-line, did draw the strip.
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Chic Carter and the Story of the Mole

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Chic Carter; Monahan; The Mole
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Archie O'Toole; Ludbah
First Line: Ludbah, I'm tired...I think I'll take a ride!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): The Scarlet Seal [Barry Moore]; Captain Pat Moore; Al Regna (villain)
First Line: Midnight -- and a sinister black sedan rolls cityward
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Credits suggested by the Who's Who.
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The Gaston Necklace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Kent Thurston; Jason White; Rufus Kane; Inspector Battle
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Colonel Atwater
First Line: Sabateurs strike in the most important department of our national defense...the aviation factories!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Magno, the Magnetic Man [Quality]
Character(s): Magno [Tom Dalton]; Mary Wallace; Steve Recka; Monk
First Line: Mary Wallace is making a survey of slum conditions..
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Barbaria Shall Strike

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Wings Wendall; Listra; Warak
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The God Mask

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert M. Hyatt
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
Character(s): Jimmy Christian
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo [also as Professor Grrr's conscience]; unnamed Policeman; Professor Grrr (villain)
First Line: Velly good day
Synopsis: Professor Grrr, despondent over Wun Cloo's messing up five murders that he had planned, attempts to kill the detective. Escaping the attempts, Wun Cloo drinks down some Super Putty Juice that makes his body plastic in nature, portrays the Professor's conscience, and convinces the villain to turn himself in.
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In Content Item: FlagJack Cole and Plastic Man Forms Stretched to Their Limits #[nn] published August 2001
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched To Their Limits! (Chronicle Books LLC, 2001 series) nn (2001)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: This was Cole's very first strip for Quality Comics.

Script and art revisions from Gill Fox to Cole by Craig Delich, per the reprint.

This story creates the notion that led to the creation of Plastic Man eight months later.
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The Medici Candle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Abdul; Hassan; Achmed Bey
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Can we come in on one ticket?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Final appearance.
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The Wizard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hugh Hazzard; The Wizard
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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