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Issue: Smash Comics #27 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1941
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Issues: #27 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: 08/20/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Published monthly by E.M. Arnold, 8 Lord St., Buffalo, N. Y. (printer's address). Executive and editorial offices, Gurley Building, 322 Main St., Stamford, Conn.

Copyright 1941 by Everett M. Arnold.

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. 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: A complete full length story of the Ray
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Pages: 1
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The Atom Smasher

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as E. Lectron] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bud; Dr. Kompf (villain); Hugo (villain)
First Line: With his little pal, Bud, Happy is heading for Camp Reade...
Synopsis: The Ray battles fifth columnists who have a mobile atom-smasher that can turn people into liquid or dust, and also has the capability to immobilze the Ray.
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Pages: 9
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Good Neighborliness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Batu; Shulman; Colonel Atwater; Madame Doom (villain)
First Line: The famous international agent goes south of the border...
Synopsis: Black X battles Madame Doom in Mexico.
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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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You are to Join the Army

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Archie; Stanislouse
First Line: H'lo, Stanislouse - what's cooking?
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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): Detective Hustace McGinty; Jean Waldorf (socialite, introduction); Purdy Stone (villain)
First Line: At the exclusive debutantes' masquerade ball on Park Avenue...
Synopsis: The Jester breaks up a robbery at the ball and meets socialite Jean Waldorf, who immediately takes a liking to Chuck Lane.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Quality Companion states that Gustavson created this feature and did it the first two years of its existence.
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The Fire Cult

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fire-Devil
First Line: It is night out-side the small town of Pleasant-Ville..
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #29 published January 2001
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd]
First Line: Aw...don't start fightin' again, you two!
Synopsis: The Trio splits up to look for work but are reunited in a three-way collision.
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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 that Alex Blum, under this pen-name or by-line, did draw the strip.
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The Ghost of Robin Hood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Van Topps; The Ghost of Robin Hood [Mr. Mills] (villain, former millionaire)
Synopsis: A former millionaire becomes the ghost of Robin Hood, targeting the rich to help the poor.....namely, himself! When Midnight attempts to stop him, the crime fighter is tagged in the back with a deadly arrow!
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Pages: 6
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Genres: aviation
Character(s): Spinner Benson; Captain Kargas
First Line: On Wendall's desk is an order from his superior...
Synopsis: Wings puts a stop to an enemy germ warfare plan.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Igor; Sgt. Burns
First Line: Pounding his night shift beat, rookie Rankin turns a dark corner...
Synopsis: Rookie uncovers terrorists planning to plant bombs throughout the city.
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Pages: 6
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The Secret of the Mountain

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (story logo art)
Inker(s): ? (story logo art)
Colorist(s): ? (story logo colors)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
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Pages: 1.5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo (detective)
First Line: Wun Clu. the defective detective is anwering a call to a laundry [sic]
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Bond; The White Wizard (villain, introduction)
First Line: It is late at night as a frightened citizen rushes to a policeman on his beat...
Synopsis: The Hood follows some oddly-dressed thugs through the city of Metropolis to an underground lair where he finds a hidden city, the White Wizard's domain. When faced with defeat, the Wizard escapes before his city explodes.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The White Wizard will appear again in Smash #30, the only one of the Hood's foes to appear more than once.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Ezra Cade; Zork; Gibbles; Hitz
First Line: An American transport plows its way toward war-torn Europe --
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Pages: 7

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