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Issue: Smash Comics #38 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1942
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Issues: #38 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 10/16/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gill Fox
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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); The Caveman
First Line: Flip the cover and see what happens to Midnight!
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Pages: 1
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Cave-Man Menace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sir Squinchworth; Lady Squinchworth; Zor the Caveman; Two-Face (villain)(see notes below)
Synopsis: Sir Squinchworth brings back his latest discovery from Siberia, a living caveman. Midnight assists the mistreated Zor, and helps him escape from the Dingling Brothah's Circus, where he discovers additional sad homemade freaks.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: A villain named Two-Face sends a letter at the very end of this story challenging Midnight to a fight to the death, having made a big enough name for himself that even Midnight claims to have heard of him. NOTE: This is as far as the villain got. His actual appearance and the fight was slated for the next issue, but another creator worked on the strip after this and the story was not continued.

Inker credit to DiPreta per the Quality Companion.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: Is that King Archie, Mama?
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Pages: 1
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The Prophecy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Madame Wipasky; Black Wilhelm; Vorka
Synopsis: Wilhelm gets his fortune told, and doesn't like the results.
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Pages: 7
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The Cornfield-McJug Feud

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bozo the Robot; Hugh Hazzard; Lem Cornfield; Cy McJug
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Pages: 5
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The Kleptomaniac

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; detective Hustace McGinty; Terwilliger J. Thump
Synopsis: McGinty can't capture the Kleptomaniac because the Commissioner's his uncle.
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Pages: 7
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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; Tonga Bey; Von Pap; Black Ogre (villain)
First Line: The Mideast lies sprawled around the tossing blue waters of the Mediterranean like a huge horseshoe...
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Pages: 8
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).

Moreira did pencils and inks on this strip in 1943. This issue is dated December, 1942, and was illustrated well before 1943.
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The Man of a Hundred Heads

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Sue Saunders; The Headsman (villain)
Synopsis: Happy Terrill's relationship with Sue Saunders changes dramatically when the two begin to date, and, as the Ray, he finds himself having to save her from the ax-weilding Headsman.
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Pages: 6
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The Warehouser's Beat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; The Warehousers; Warden Jones; Commissioner
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Pages: 8
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Christmas Mystery

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
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Pages: 2
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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
First Line: Unless you confess to that killing, I'll give you the third degree!
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Pages: 1
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Men Marked for Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble] (introduction)
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Not the same character as in Military Comics (Quality, 1941 series) #1-8.

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