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Issue: Smash Comics #22 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1941
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Issues: #22 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: 03/19/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (14 stories, 1 cover)
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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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A Thrilling Adventure

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bozo the Robot; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Midnight [Dave Clark] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset)
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The Return of Captain Blue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud [once known as Jackie]; Lupo (villain, a wraith, dream); King Peveral (villain, dream); Blitzen (villain, a six-legged horse, dream); Kulik (villain, dream); Captain Blue (villain, dream)
Synopsis: Bud returns home as the ward of Happy Terrill, whom he no longer remembers to be the Ray for some reason. That night, Bud has a dream that wraith Lupo kidnaps him and takes him on Blitzen to Elixir, the realm of King Percival, where he and the Ray battle Captain Blue again.
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Pages: 9
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: aviation
Character(s): Wings Wendall; General Harris; Bullet Plane; Spinner
First Line: In the heart of Washington...two men hunch intently over an army short-wave radio set...
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Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: I wanna make a little whoopie!
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey)
First Line: There's trouble in Big City!!
Synopsis: When Dave goes to work at the radio station, he sends Gabby on a mission to expose two dueling milk companies that are endangering the public. When Midnight is captured and the crooks attempt to unmask him, he protects his identity by making a nonstop series of funny faces until Gabby manages to free him.
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[untitled]

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Purple Trio [Tiny Todd; Warren; Rocky Hill]
First Line: Gangland vs. Tiny, Warren and Rocky...
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Alex Blum's gloomy faces are not to be mistaken.

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 Alex Blum, under this pen-name or by-line, did draw the strip.
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Athlete's Foot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, mystery
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Charles "Chuck" Lane] (police officer, introduction); Inspector Mulligan; Mrs. Van Cornish; Looie the Mouse (villain)
First Line: Ha-ha...we've got the Jester at last, going into the only door in that building!
Synopsis: Lane calls on a wealthy woman whose fortune is targeted by Looie the Mouse, and, as the Jester, hogties the thug and throws him out the window of her home, which greatly displeases the inspector.
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Disclose Notes: The Jester uses a rubber clown head (dubbed "Quinopolis" in Smash #47) to bean his pursuers and as a calling card to taunt the police.

Jester's costume sports a skull on it, which has disappeared by the 7th story.

Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Defending Suez

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu
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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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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): The Red Seal [Barry Moore]; Captain Tim Moore
First Line: Barry, this charity show of the police and my last day to get the Scarlet Seal, both fall on the 13th -- a fine change I've got!
Synopsis: The Seal invents a complex scheme to save his father's job, which was on the line because the captain had failed to catch the Scarlet Seal.
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; James Gotham; Geoffrey; Baxter Slade (villain)
First Line: Death and crime stalk Kent Thurston, the Invisible Hood, as he arrives in London and crosses trails with a mysterious stranger who leads him to danger within the grim walls of the Castle of Doom...
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Today is Tomorrow

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Abdul; Hassan; Fawida; Aman; Ibn Kawir gang
First Line: ...and a little child did lead them...
Synopsis: Abdul and Hassan have to play bodyguard to a little princess.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Chic Carter; Monahan; Commissioner Martin
First Line: Aftetr a serious of astounding adventures in far off Mongolia, Chic Carter returns to America...
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Dutch
First Line: A factory whistle blows, the signal for hundreds of workers to lay down their tools -- and --
Synopsis: Hugh Hazzard takes on a loan shark who preys on working people.
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Pages: 7

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