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Issue: Smash Comics #41 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1943
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Issues: #41 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold
On Sale Date: 01/15/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): George Brenner
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Daffy (inset)
First Line: Hey, Doc! You've got to remember how to turn this thing off!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Character(s): Kid Eternity; Mr. Keeper; Captain Triumph
First Line: Boy! Oh, boy! Two! Two tremendous new features!
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); O'Toole; Private Klink
First Line: Golly, but it's cold in here!
Synopsis: Doc Wackey shows his latest gadget to the army and destroys half the city in the process.
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Pages: 11
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The Amber Trap

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Madame Doom (villain); Professor Stultz (villain); Colonel Atwater; Ted Winston; Bob; Anderson; Waterson
Synopsis: Madame Doom is killing people with plastic to make them horrifying exhibits to demoralize the Allies.
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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).
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Collecting Scrap

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Henry Doaks; Elmer; Percy; Hugh Hazzard
Synopsis: Kids gather scrap metal for the war effort, then get into a scrape over who owns the scrap.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Finial appearance of the "Bozo the Robot" feature.
Final Golden Age appearance of the Bozo the Robot character. Next appearance in Starman (DC, 1994 Series) #64 (April 2000).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Penelope (villain); Lady Satan (villain)
First Line: Well, well!... The obituary notices!
Synopsis: McGinty, upset when he reads his own obituary in the paper, along with the Jester, barely escape Lady Satan, who is the strongarm for a woman that marries men for their life insurance policies.
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Pages: 7
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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Heiress Still Missing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Dinah Shane; Wenner
Synopsis: Larry gets hired for a stunt job, but it's all a plot to pin a murder on him, if he doesn't die in the stunt that is.
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Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo; Sam
First Line: Is velly bad! Not one murder all veek!
Synopsis: While walking around town Wun hears the tailor offering to give someone a cuff in the pants.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Dr. Valdu (villain); Shamar Valdu; Schultz-Klink; Abdul; Zoga
First Line: Where Truth Laughs at Fiction..And Death is not the End
Synopsis: The Marksman is in El Nefud to get a cure for a disease from a discredited doctor.
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Pages: 7
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Man of Fire

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
Character(s): Tarku; Bannock; Jimmy Christian; Jack Nicols; Geld van Staadt
Synopsis: Jimmy learns of a tribe torturing white men by stretching them out.
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Pages: 1.67
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Hendrickson; Blackhawk; Olaf; Chop-Chop
First Line: Another swell Blackhawk story is now in the April issue of Military Comics on sale February 10th
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Pages: 0.33
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous, sports
Character(s): Daffy Dill (introduction); Deke Parsons (villain, wrestling manager)
First Line: C'mon Daffy. Make it snappy. We've got a dinner date, and I'm famished!
Synopsis: Daffy searches for Deke, her former (crooked) wrestling manager, who has fled to the big city.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story reads like there were earlier chapters, but there weren't.

Daffy is an Amazonian woman wrestler.
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The Spider's Web

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; The Spider; Dagger; Letti; Joe
Synopsis: The Spider runs a protection racket, and Rookie is determined to break him.
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Pages: 8
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Metro Publications
First Line: Free with this offer 33 power telescope lens kit
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?; ? (photograph)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): American Seed Company
First Line: Hurry! Hurry! Sell seeds for victory gardens
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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