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Issue: Smash Comics #21 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1941
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Issues: #21 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: 02/19/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (14 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, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 2.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Midnight [Dave Clark] (inset); Bozo the Robot (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset)
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Pages: 1
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The Empire of Captain Blue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Jackie (introduction, later known as Bud); Keefer; Rogers; Captain Blue (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: The Ray, a boy and two men are stranded on a Pacific Island after their plane is shot down by "asiatics". There he meets Captain Blue, a pirate who intends to attack Hawaii, then take over the world after the Americans and the "mongols" destroy each other. Blue imprisons the Ray in a circle of light, and the Ray must rely on his human strength to send Blue over a ledge to his death.
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Disclose Notes: Jackie discovers the Ray's true identity in this story.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: Boris the Blade must not fail to assassinate...
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Pages: 1
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Gabby, the Talking Monkey

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby the talking monkey (introduction); Alice O'Day (scientist, death); Slug McGurk (villain); Julie the Jerk (villain)
Synopsis: Midnight comes to the rescue of a purse snatching victim and discovers she's a scientist who can make animals talk. Intending to turn this secret over to government authorities, Alice is attacked and killed by thugs, who burned her secrets, leaving only Gabby as proof that her theories worked. Midnight gains custody of the monkey, after rounding up the people responsible for Alice's death.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Vacuum Gun was an automatic that projected a suction cup connected to a self-winding reel of fine silk cord.....strong enough to hold a man's weight, and its suction held to almost any surface.
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Trouble on Sao Paulo Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Wings Wendall; Spinner Benson; Derek; Baron; Col Harrison
Synopsis: Wings and Spinner discover an unknown base on an American island.
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Purple Trio [Tiny Todd; Warren; Rocky Hill]; J. G. Throcton
First Line: Criminal beware!
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Alex Blum is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and his gloomy faces are not to be mistaken. Compare sample in Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Jerry Iger is credited as writer for Quality, and his pen name was S.M. Regi (Iger backwards).

S. M. Regi was a pen-name sometimes used by Jerry Iger, but also by others as a house by-line. 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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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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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Mr. Mite (villain, introduction, spy); Black John (villain)
First Line: Inn the late hours of the night, Kent Thurston, the Invisible Hood, plays a grim game of hide-and-seek with Death as he battles an unknown foe in an old waterfront tavern called One Way Inn.
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Disclose Notes: The villain, Mr. Mite, bears an uncanny resemblance to Captain Marvel's foe, Sivana.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Madame Doom (villain); Ahkir Jubnijhak (villain)
First Line: Black X, the international spy leaves a night club with Batu. [sic]
Synopsis: Black X goes to India to help Batu track down terrorists that have infiltrated the British Raj. Madame Doom follows for her own reasons.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Williams is credited on drawing this feature.

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)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Abdul; Hassan; Afta Ikur; Cy Young
First Line: When was the American caravan attacked?
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): The Scarlet Seal [Barry Moore]; Captain Tim Moore; Seymour Blots (villain)
First Line: Barry, this Seymor Blots may be a financial wizard to the suckers who invest with him, but he's still a crook to me!
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Credits suggested by the Who's Who.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Magno [Tom Dalton]; Dr. Harry Wood; Van Nest
First Line: Dr. Harry Wood, a noted archaeologist, reads the accounts of the murders...
Synopsis: Five archeologists tattoo a map to ancient mystical treasure on the backs of their hands. Now someone is murdering them and stealing those hands.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Last appearance of feature.

Final Golden Age appearance of Magno [Tom Dalton] character. Next appearance in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 Series) #31 (March 1984).
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Ghost Stampede

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
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Pages: 2
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Lost in the Wilds of Tibet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Chic Carter; Gordon Bruce; Chung Musta; Hilme; the Prince of Kabat
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Tom Holms; Mr.Goyle; Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Chico
First Line: In the office of the Acme Insurance Company...
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Pages: 7

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