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Issue: Smash Comics #28 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1941
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Issues: #28 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 09/19/1941
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: 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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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); Doc Mortimer Wackey (inset); Gabby (a monkey) (inset)
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Pages: 1
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Zimmerman's Spy Ring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Chita; Zimmerman (villain); Zimmerman's spy ring (villains)
First Line: Happy Terrill and his friend Bud are heading home...
Synopsis: The Ray and Bud break up a Mexican spy ring.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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The Liquifying Ray

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a talking monkey)
First Line: It is late evening in Big City...
Synopsis: Midnight and Gabby face a gang of crooks with an amazing ray weapon that can melt anything in Big City.
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Pages: 6
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The Stenographer's Job

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: Hey, guard!
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Pages: 1
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Tiny Gano's Insurance Racket

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Tiny Gano (introduction); Shorty (crook); Muggins (crook)
First Line: Rookie, Chuck Lane pounds the pavement...
Synopsis: The Jester chases a pair of crooks back to the lair of criminal mastermind Tiny Gano and puts them all to rout.
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Kent Thurston; unnamed Nazis; Roy Mason
First Line: It came from th' clouds -- !!
Synopsis: An invisible airplane based in a dirigible is used to kidnap the new Defense Chief, Roy Mason.
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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]; Madame Zagonga (villain)
First Line: It is a lovely day...
Synopsis: Walking through the park, Tiny spots his two pals sitting on a bridge with another midget between them. His anger subsides when it is revealed that this a dummy for use in the act. But none of them know there is a stolen necklace hidden in the wooden head.
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Pages: 5
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 Rescue of Madame Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Colonel Atwater; Captain Vidman (introduction); Madame Doom (villain)
First Line: Black X is on his way to the State Department code room.
Synopsis: Black X tracks down stolen navy charts as two gangs of spies vie for their possession.
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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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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo, the Defective Detective
First Line: Well well, my old pal, Wun Cloo!
Synopsis: Wun CLoo ignores crimes being committed because it is his day off.
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Pages: 1
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The Modern Train Robbers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wildfire; Mutt Morgan and his gang; Mr and Mrs Martin
First Line: Mutt Morgan, most famous gangster of the Prohibition Era...
Synopsis: Wildire takes on a gang of train robbers, after a gold shipment that's riding on the same train as she and her parents.
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Wings Wendall; Captain Kurt (villain, introduction, dies); Nita; Dr. Goth; Franklin Delano Roosevelt
First Line: A plane drones high above Washington with no lights...
Synopsis: A parachutist tries to assassinate the president.
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In Content Item: FlagO Faísca #6 published April 1943
as Branca de Neve, Assassino [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Faísca #7 published April 1943
as Branca de Neve, Assassino [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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The City of 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; Sir John Elton-Blake
First Line: The yellow pall of death still clung over that quiet valley.
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Pages: 1.5
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The Squid Strikes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; The Squid (Intro; not the Spirit villain); Gus Poppalopalous
First Line: Even when off duty...
Synopsis: Rookie's mother sends him out to get a mackeral for supper, and he discovers a protection racket in operation on the docks. Knocked out and taken aboard the crooks' boat, fish merchant Gus brings a codfish as a present to The Squid and praises Rookie's culinary skill. Rookie cuts open the fish and finds a hidden gun, and with the aid of Gus and a lot of fresh fish, brings the gang to justice.
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; "Slip" Talone (introduction)
First Line: The news is read by "Slip" Talone, gangland's big boss...
Synopsis: "Slip" Talone thinks he has captured Bozo, but the robot's steel hard body and flying powers make short work of the gang.
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Pages: 7

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