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Issue: Smash Comics #60 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1945
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Issues: #60 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: 06/13/1945
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1945 Periodicals, page 384.
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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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The Swooner and the Thrush

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Swooner and the Thrush

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Swooner; Thrush; Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Foot (a polar bear); Marvin Maxwell
Synopsis: Radio singers The Swooner and the Thrush are in love, but will their marriage be good for ratings? How about their murders at the hands of jealous fans.........will that help?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Identical art to Gustavson's signed story in #57. Notice the very low rounded jaws in sideview, and the inking of the inside of ears.

All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Archie O'Toole (king)
First Line: We must cut the palace budget to the bone!
Synopsis: The palace must economize to the smallest detail.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Daffy the Matador

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Character(s): Daffy Dill; Deke Parsons; El Toro
Synopsis: Deke accidentally signs Daffy up for a bull fight, thinking it's a wrestling match.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Gardenia Gus; Lil
First Line: A scream in the night...and Rookie Rankin finds himself playing a horrible game of death, in which desperate men and a lonely girl are strangley mixed up with the murder of an elderly chemist...
Synopsis: Gramley's niece says Gus killed him for his secret formula, but Gus doesn't know anything about it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This is similar art to the many Manhunter stories in Police Comics credited to Peter Riss on pencils. Probably a mix up by Who's Who, who has him only on ink on this feature. Notice the flying man punched by Rankin on page 5, which can be found in at least 12 of his stories in Manhunter.
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Earnest Eagers, Editorial Cartoonist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Ernest Eagers (artist); "Busy" Armonk (villain)
Synopsis: Brenda helps an editorial cartoonist, Ernest Eagers, who is being blackmailed by "Busy" Arnold.
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In Content Item: FlagLady Luck #2 published October 1980
as Earnest Eagers, Editorial Cartoonist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: This story appears to be poking fun at Busy Arnold.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo (detective); Filthy Joe
First Line: Now it's my turn!
Synopsis: Filthy Joe hides in a cannon barrel.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Curly; Spunky; Marge; Pug; Professor Flunker
First Line: Take another look, Spunky! Now do you see it?
Synopsis: Spunky is looking at the stars when Curly puts a green pea on the telescope lens. Spunky thinks he's discovered a new planet. The townspeople become convinced it's going to destroy the town.
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Pages: 7
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Thanks to Mars

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
Character(s): Jimmy Christian (reporter); Professor Robert Wellington
Synopsis: War accelerated scientific research, but did not produce any great discoveries.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: text story
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Black X; Batu; Baron De Zair (the Foremost); Mrs. Radleigh
First Line: What dangers lurk on the home front?
Synopsis: Black X finds intrigue at a society party.
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Quinopolis; Bart Beauchamp; Miss Gopher; Lofty (villain)
First Line: The Blunder of Bart Beauchamp
Synopsis: Society playwrite's contempt for the police gets him in trouble with real gangsters.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Similar art to the credited pencil work on Manhunter stories in Police Comics #37-#59 by Peter Riss.
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Captain Tootsie and the Farmyard Fire!

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Mr. Tuttle; Mrs. Tuttle
Synopsis: Captain Tootsie puts out a farmyard fire.
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Pages: 1

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