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Issue: Smash Comics #24 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1941
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Issues: #24 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 05/21/1941
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. 3.
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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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Vera; Wonder Horse; The Great Ivan; Pietro
First Line: Who killed the Great Ivan, master of trapeze art at Farnum's Circus...or was it an accident?
Synopsis: The Ray and Bud temporarily join the circus after saving some aerialists from attack. In the process, they discovered an FBI agent is also there to take down Vera, the equestrienne.
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Pages: 9
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Archie O'Toole
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Pages: 1
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The Circus Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Alice Taylor (Dave's girl); Alonzo Schtunk (villain)
Synopsis: A circus performer uses monkeys as pickpockets, which draws Dave away as Midnight from his date for the evening. He is in the process of busting up the racket when Doc and Gabby come on the scene, intent on using the doctor's new mind-reading invention on the gang.
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Pages: 5
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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; Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill]; Garry Bore
First Line: When crime takes the theatre as a refuge, the Purple Trio, Rocky the Strongman, Warren the ventriloquist and Tiny the midget, become a three-man crusade...
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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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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Wings Wendall; Spinner Benson; The Bullet-Plane; Lorner
First Line: Army headquarters are thrown into utter confusion.
Synopsis: Wings dons the costume worn by the enemy spies to sneak into their Invisible Sky-Base.
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo; Killer Diller
First Line: Today is Killer Diller's birthday!
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jester [Chuck Lane]; Mulligan; Frisco Finley; Nick Perselle (villain)
First Line: Frisco Finley, alias Slippery Sam, Fingers Finn, petty larceny...pickpocket...and forgery!
Synopsis: Nick Perselle tries to frame Mulligan for murder.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Alex Durham; Osaki; Kali; Madam Doom (villain)
First Line: The new order in Asia reaches its treacherous tentacles toward American interests, only to meet failure when the famed espionage agent, Black X, interferes with the daring scheme.
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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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The Face

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Kent Thurston; Chac Mool; B-7; Chima
Synopsis: Thurston battles spies intending to sabotage the Panama Canal.
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Pages: 5
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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]; John Culver; Henry Wilson; Judy Wilson; Kuber (villain)
First Line: John Culver, special agent, is fighting the protection racket...
Synopsis: Barry meets his heart throb, Judy Wilson, while protecting her brother from mobsters.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Final appearance.
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The Hunted Castle [sic]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (header)
Inker(s): ? (header)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
Character(s): Jimmy Christian
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Pages: 1.25
Disclose Notes: Story across two pages, with 1/4 of a page of ads on the first page and 1/2 of a page of an ad on the second.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Abdul; Hassan; the queen
First Line: Huzzah! Huzzah! The Prophet of the Sands!
Synopsis: Abdul is shipwrecked on a mysterious island and sentenced to be sacrificed to the fire god
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Final appearance.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Character(s): Chic Carter as The Sword (intro); Bull Hennessey; Sgt Monahan; One Thumb Hogan; Egghead
First Line: The silence of a peaceful night is suddenly shattered by pistol shots from the apartment of Bull Hennessy, gang czar of all New York!
Synopsis: Framed for murder, Chic Carter dons a mask to evade the police.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Next appearance in Police Comics #1

Credits suggested by the Who's Who.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Gus; Gyp; Commissioner Hunt; Devlin; The Headless Men (villains)
First Line: Dusk -- and the weary body of a small man enters a door beneath a deserted pier --
Synopsis: Hazzard and Bozo face a group of weird mobsters who wear special suits to make themselves look headless in order to scare their victims to death.
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