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Issue: Smash Comics #63 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1946
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Issues: #63 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: 12/07/1945
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, 1946-1947 Periodicals, page 352.
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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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey)
First Line: >Wow!< Midnight comes out punching his way through another laugh-packed adventure!
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Volto from Mars
First Line: Volto's out-of-this-world magnetic powers conquer a fiery inferno in the timberlands of the Great Northwest...
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop; Hotfoot; Cutestuff Kids; Ziggy Rollo; J. C. Catlett; Prentice
First Line: Hey Midnight! It's a small world, all right!
Synopsis: The president of Dave's radio station offers $50,000 for anyone who can get a genuine explorer to come on his station. But his competitor doesn't like the idea that there might be more than one explorer in town.
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Archie O'Toole (king); Head-General
First Line: Head-general, I think both you and me need some rest and recreation!
Synopsis: The king and the head-general need some rest.
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Spunky; Curly; Marge; Pug; Uncle Ebenezer
First Line: By gum! That's the best show I've seen in forty years!
Synopsis: An uncle from out west is visiting Marge. When she invites Spunky and Curly over for dinner, Spunky has to borrow a 40-year-old suit from Pug's attic. It turns out that the suit originally belonged to Uncle Ebenezer, who is very pleased with Spunky for wearing it.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Shiek Rezil Ben Hada
First Line: Evil days will befall our mighty tribe...
Synopsis: Rankin gets mixed up in a plot to assassinate the heir to a Middle Eastern throne.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Similar art to the credited pencil work on Manhunter stories in Police Comics #37-#59 by Peter Riss. He is only credited on inking this feature, but that can be a typing error for pencils in Jerry Bails' Who's Who. The inking does not match his signed story in My Romantic Adventures #56.
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Arson on the Stage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]
Synopsis: Lady Luck battles an arsonist in a burning theatre.
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Pages: 4
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The Tyrant of Chengow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Black X; Batu
Synopsis: The tyrannical master of the invaders has escaped, leaving a faithful double to die in his place.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Possibly Quackenbush, with the many figures with short torso and also some short arms and fingers. Quackenbush has some signed stories in this feature and some in Military Comics from the same period, but not very similar to each other.
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Fire Ball

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); Mahmoud; Col. Morrissy
Synopsis: Jimmy employ some of his "witchcraft" to scare an old Riff chieftain.
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Wun Cloo (detective)
First Line: Wun Cloo, I'd like to ask a question!
Synopsis: A man assaults Wun Cloo just to be arrested and rest on the state's money.
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Pages: 1
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Captain Barnley, the Cheapskate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Character(s): Daffy Dill; Deke Parsons; Captain Barnley
Synopsis: A stevedore's job would be a cinch for Daffy.
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Pages: 7
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The Theft of the Wabi Pearls

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
Synopsis: The Jester searches for jewels in a baloney factory.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Originally credited "Sam Citron ?" This is similar art to the many Manhunter stories in Police Comics credited to Peter Riss on pencils.

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