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Issue: Smash Comics #37 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1942
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Issues: #37 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 09/16/1942
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, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, 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
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Midnight Scores Again!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Rookie Ranking (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Doc Wackey Goes Berserk!

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; Skull Duggery; The Professor
Synopsis: The mysterious Professor returns for Doc Wackey's life, and uses Doc to create and test a super-speed formula. Wackey ends up with super speed, which he proceeds to dedicate to a life of crime! Midnight took the serum himself just to keep up with Doc, but it eventually wears off.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Inker credit to DiPreta per the Quality Companion.
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Rescuing Papa

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Tinka Van Doorne (Peter's daughter); Peter Van Doorne
Synopsis: A little girl asks Black X to rescue her father who is being held by the Nazis behind enemy lines.
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Miscellaneous
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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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: Sure, I know we need a queen...
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Tough Tony; Dagger Joe (villain); Trigger (villain)
First Line: Hey... flatfoot... is th' sidewalk so small y' gotta get yourself tangled up in me feet?!
Synopsis: Chuck Lane asks that the toughest juvenile offender be paroled into his custody.
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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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Dean of Darkness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dean of Darkness; Wildfire
Synopsis: The Dean of Darkness tries to hold Carol Martin for ransom, not realizing she's Wildfire.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Last appearance of feature.
Final Golden Age appearance of Wildfire (Carol Vance Martin). Appears next in The Golden Age (DC, 1993 Series) #4 ([May] 1994).
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The Kidnapping of Peter Percy Gotgelt III

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Peter Percy Gotgelt III; Hugh Hazzard; Bozo; The Terrible Trio
Synopsis: A trio of kidnappers find a little boy too much to handle.
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Pages: 5
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The Frozen Lands of the Midnight Sun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud
Synopsis: The Ray searches for a spy who has ferreted out plans for an allied invasion of Norway.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Artie
First Line: A g-man is loose among the crooks, and Ma Rankin is loose among the cops...
Synopsis: Rankin breaks up a counterfeiting ring that makes phony rationing coupons.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo (detective)
First Line: Wun Cloo think new Chinese restaurant cover up...
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd]; Peters (villain)
First Line: The boys are off for a day at the zoo...
Synopsis: A disgruntled zoo employee lets the animals loose to get revenge on the zoo director.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Last appearance.

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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Spy

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Undersea Wolf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Wings Wendall; Captain Kroll; Spinner Benson
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: last appearance
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The Amazing Adventures of the Three Shadows

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; The Three Shadows (introduction for all); Schtuper (villain)
Synopsis: A Czech, an Austrian and a Pole escape from a concentration camp and join the underground as the Three Shadows, through whom the Marksman smuggles Nazi war plans to the British.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The artist signed at the bottom of the last page.

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