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Issue: Smash Comics #32 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1942
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Issues: #32 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: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gill Fox
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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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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey (inset); Gabby (a monkey) (inset); The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Bozo the Robot (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Buddy; Sue Saunders; Baron Hoff (villain); Syrian gangsters (villains); the Nazis (villains)
First Line: Ancient Greece speaks
Synopsis: The Ray, Sue and Bud are returning from Syria, and make a stop in Greece, where Syrian gangsters have followed them in search for a prophetic scroll of Hippotius.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Colonel Atwater; the Nazis (villains)
First Line: Across the great Arizona desert, flashes a Curtiss Helldiver en route to the west.
Synopsis: Nazis in Arizona are plaguing an air base with clouds of man-made smoke.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: 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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Bus Stop - No Parking

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Genres: childrens, humorous
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The Murderous Frog of the Mardi Gras

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wildfire [Carol Vance]; Meredith (Army post commander, death); The Frog (villain, death)
Synopsis: Froggy Miller was booted out of the U.S. Army for cowardice and for theft, and now seeks revenge as The Frog on those who made fun of him.
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In Issue: FlagThe Quality Companion #[nn] published November 2011
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective McGinty; Doc Reinhart; Sarcoris
First Line: Blazing headlines flash across the front pages of the city newspapers...
Synopsis: The Jester chases a body snatcher.
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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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Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Purple Trio [Tiny Todd; Warren; Rocky Hill]
First Line: The trio receives a call from a casting office and...
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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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War over Iceland!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doctor Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Hienrich (villain); von Kamp (villain); Hans (villain); other un-named Nazis (villains, all die)
Synopsis: Doc has been granted a patent on his atom reviser machine and vows to turn it over to the government for national defense. However, the Nazis try to use the machine to take over Iceland, so Midnight steps in to turn the tables on the Nazis.
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In Issue: FlagThe Quality Companion #[nn] published November 2011
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Genres: humorous, mystery
First Line: What th -- ??
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bozo; Hugh Hazzard
First Line: Wow -- ! Another explosion in a defense plant --
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Genres: aviation
Character(s): Wings Wendall; Red Menace
First Line: Sharps bows cut through the waters of the two oceans as the United States Navy defends our ramparts against the war machine of the Red Menace!!
Synopsis: Red Menace is building a tunnel under the Pacific Ocean in order to invade America.
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Flight to the Unknown

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Jane Watson; Waxman (villain); Rox (villain)
First Line: The giant eastern steel plant works deep into the night...
Synopsis: While fighting sabotage inside a defense plant, the Hood saves the life of Jane Watson from abusive thugs.
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Disclose Notes: Last episode of the Invisible Justice feature.
Final Golden Age appearance of Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston] character. Next appearance is in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #32.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Pat
First Line: Tis an ill and cold wind that blows no good, but an ever resourceful Rookie Rankin bravely bucks the icy blasts of an ill-fated beat and again proves himself worthy of his badge.
Synopsis: Rookie and the night watchman drink doped coffee and almost fall victim to a burglary scheme.
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