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Issue: Smash Comics #18 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1941
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Issues: #18 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Everett M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 11/20/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Ed Cronin named on statement of ownership.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1.
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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
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bozo the Robot; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston] (inset); Wings Wendall (inset)
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Pages: 1
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The Midget Train Robbers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Miss White and her seven dwarves (villains, introduction for all, all die)
Synopsis: After his transformation into the Ray, Happy hastily insists that his old self was "dead", but soon resumed his career as a newspaper reporter, trailing a band of old vaudeville freaks who are in alliance with one Miss White.
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Pages: 9
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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]; Billy Watts (introduction, death); Rajah Fakir (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: In search of a place to sleep, the Purple Trio pause before a cheap theatrical board house...
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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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Crashing the Concentration Camp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Chic Carter; Lloyd Nelson; Anna Monfried;
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Pages: 4
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The Story of Sunyan Tse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Abdul; Hassan; Sunyan Tse, Princess Mulan, Li Yao, Shah Aturk, Ali Beni
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Pages: 4
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The Accident Faker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
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Pages: 1
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The Return of Dr. Von Thorp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Dr. Von Thorp (villain, death); Runty (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Bozo's creator, von Thorp, returns after freeing himself from prison, and reclaims the robot by inventing a device which overrides Hazzard's own controls. Hazzard overcomes this obstacle by once again hiding in the robot, which returns to the evil doctor's lair. However, this time von Thorp is not fooled, captures Hazzard and throws him into a flooded room, where he survives by using a pipe as a straw to breath fresh air. Hazzard reassumes control of the robot, von Thorp flees and is shot to death by the Police.
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Pages: 7
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The Battle of Bermuda

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Admiral Jepson; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Dr. Moku (villain, introduction)
First Line: A sudden wave of strange frontpage headlines sweeps the city, leaving the authorities completely baffled...
Synopsis: Thurston must face the evil Dr. Moku, who has invented a special light that makes the Invisible Hood visible.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed)
Penciller(s): ? [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): The Scarlet Seal (Barry Moore); Captain Pat Moore; Nicky Nessen (villain, introduction, death); Sing Lee (villain, death); Manchu Sing (villain); the Hip Leong Tong (villains); the On Sing Tong (villains)
First Line: Night -- in Chinatown
Synopsis: The Scarlet Seal is successful in negotiating a resolution of the conflict between two Chinese tongs to prevent a war between them. The war had been promoted by a fifth columnist who was killed in the end by the Chinese, but the Seal takes the blame for the killing.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Manchu Sing is a ringer for Fu Manchu.
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Aces for Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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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Pages: 1.75
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Printed in Cleveland, Ohio
Publisher: Everett M. Arnold 198 Shore Rd, Old Greenwich, Conn
Editor Edward Cronin 322 Main St, Stamford, Conn.
Owner: Everett M. Arnold 198 Shore Rd, Old Greenwich, Conn
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The Madness Serum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Wings Wendall; Spinner Benson; Wescott; Diane; Dr. Blade
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Pages: 4
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Lover's Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Archie O'Toole
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight (Dave Clark)(radio spot announcer, introduction); Morris Carleton (villain, building owner, introduction)
First Line: By day, Dave Clark is just an ordinary American...
Synopsis: Midnight investigates shoddy construction projects that have been built by a man named Carleton after the collapse of a building owned by Carleton. Carleton captured Midnight and tied him to a crumbling dam......but Midnight escaped when the dam cracked, and he then warned the town below, captured Carleton and secured $10 million for the town's relief.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: No origin is given for this character. Busy Arnold asked Cole to create a Spirit knock-ff, and this was it. Cole visited Will Eisner, who was not really thrilled with what Cole had been asked to do, but understood the situation. Cole made a deliberate attempt to make Midnight an entirely different feature from the Spirit, and this character was a perfect warm-up for Cole's later creation: Plastic Man.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Magno [Tom Dalton]; unnamed goon (villain, death)
First Line: A sinister figure's sharp eyes cover the shadows of a mysterious swamp!
Synopsis: Magno pursues a goon by diving into the depths of a swamp where he discovers a labyrinth holding dozens of prisoners that have been transformed by a madman. Magno overthrows this man and destroys the complex with his magnetic powers.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who does not indicate that Gustavson wrote this feature.

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