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Issue: Smash Comics #42

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Publication Date: April 1943

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- Lady Luck

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Issues: #42 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Quality Comics

Brand: Quality Comic Group

Indicia Publisher: E. M. Arnold

On Sale Date: 02/24/1943

Volume: none

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): George Brenner

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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Format

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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Content Items (12 total)

Midnight: Whoever Dares Solve This Murder Will Die before Morning...

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Genres: adventure, superhero

Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Hot Foot (a polar bear); Gabby (a monkey)

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Pages: 1

Sniffer Snoop

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Genres: adventure, superhero

Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop (detective, introduction); Hot Foot (a polar bear, introduction)

Synopsis: Sniffer Snoop and Hot Foot show up uninvited because Sniffer thinks Midnight is smart enough to be his assistant. But Doc can't stand him and plots to get rid of him.

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Pages: 11

The Kidnapping of Brenda Banks

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count DeChange [Count DiChange]; Mr. Fatning

First Line: Mr. Fatning is in his office..

Synopsis: Count DeChange is broke and wants to marry Brenda Banks for the money, so he plans to stage a fake fight to appear like a knight in shining armor. However, some crooks kidnap her hoping to cash in on a large ransom from the Count. Although she is caught without her mask and costume, she fools her captors into thinking that Lady Luck has snuck into their lair. As the Police take her battered quarry away, Lady Luck leaves a new calling card behind: the ace of diamonds.

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Pages: 4

Dead Pigeons Tell No Tales!

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Genres: espionage

Character(s): Black X; Batu; General Strickland; Colonel Winton (villain)

Synopsis: Black X meets a clever and ruthless antagonist inside his own front lines.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Credited by the Who's Who to Bernard Sachs, but much too robust and polished - as this would be his very first work in comics. See issue #49 (Jan. 1944) for what should be viewed as pure Sachs: it's signed, most certainly his inking and not nearly this slick.

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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Genres: childrens, humorous

First Line: one small, silly animal ain't enough to run a royal zoo

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Pages: 1

Here Lies the Marksman

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Marksman Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Major Grummel (villain)

Synopsis: The Nazis have reported The Marksman for dead, and are up to some new dirty tricks.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Identical art to Guarineer's many other signed stories in this feature. A bit sleepy faces with many short, thin vertical inklines on the cheeks, and ears with a "questionmark" inside.

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Genres: mystery

Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Sam Seift; the Tattooed Man;

First Line: The Daring Carnival Murderer

Synopsis: A daring carnival murderer pitted against Rookie Rankin.

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Pages: 8

Notes: The inks here are too much of a caricaturist nature to be Williams' own. They distort his drawings a great deal.

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; The Khan

First Line: The Khan

Synopsis: Larry is a stuntman on a set filming action scenes in the land of the Khan.

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Pages: 8

Madagascar Interlude

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Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Jimmy Christian

Character(s): Jimmy Christian; Toby Sanders; Agut (native trailer)

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Pages: 2

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Genres: humorous, mystery

Character(s): Wun Cloo (detective)

First Line: Wun Cloo! I've been robbed...

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Pages: 1

Notes: Art similar to stories signed Ralph Johns, pen name for Jack Cole.

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Genres: humorous, sports

Character(s): Daffy Dill; Deke Parsons

First Line: Dr. Smatt's Reducing Machine

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Pages: 5

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Lady Satan (villain)

First Line: Ha-ha! Jester -- you can't fool Lady Satan!

Synopsis: Lady Satan deduces the dual identity of Chuck Lane and attempts to blackmail him into helping her commit crimes. At first he pretends to go along with her scheme but fools her in the end.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Jim Amash and Mike Kooiman, in the Quality Companion, state that Gustavson created this feature and did it the first two years of its existence (even though the Who's Who doesn't indicate Gustavson doing anything but drawing the feature).