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Issue: Smash Comics #68 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1946
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Issues: #68 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: 10/04/1946
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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Midnight Gambles with Atomic Dice!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey
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In Content Item: FlagWill Eisner's The Spirit Archives #7 published June 2002
as A Midnight Tale [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover art credits from Archives reprint.
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[untitled]

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Graham Hunter
Inker(s): Graham Hunter
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Pepsi, I'm sick in two places
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Atomic Dice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Max Magoo
Synopsis: Doc has made a pair of dice containing enough atomic power to blow up the whole city.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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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: Yep, I've decided to abdicate...
Synopsis: The people expected to see the king himself hung, not his picture.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Detective Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Spunky; Marge (girl friend); Curly (rival); Pug (pal); Marge's father
First Line: According to these footprints, I'm following a little guy wearing big shoes!!
Synopsis: Spunky is telling how good a detective he might be. He hides the glasses of Marge's father, so he can take credit for finding them. Unfortunately, he steps on them and breaks them.
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Pages: 7
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Ida, the Goose

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Rookie Rankin; police chief; Dan Maxon
Synopsis: A famous goose laying golden eggs visits the city.
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Miscellaneous
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. Notice hovering figure getting a punch on the jaw, similar to at least 12 Manhunter stories.
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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); Casey
First Line: Quick!... Th-the large economy s-size!
Synopsis: A lady says her house is haunted and asks Cloo to scare the ghosts away.
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Pages: 1
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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; Snide (villain)
First Line: Detective McGinty has come, at a mysterious phone call, to a lonely section of City Park...
Synopsis: McGinty is abducted and to be killed by Snide and his gang.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: This is similar art to the many Manhunter stories in Police Comics (Quality, 1941 series) credited to Riss on pencils.
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The Incomparable Ballet Souffle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Blovodkine (ballet dancer); Sopofore (villain)
Synopsis: Somebody at the theater plans to kill the ballet dancer, Blovodkine.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Man Who Would Be King

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
Character(s): Jimmy Christian (reporter); Enders; James Harden-Hickey
Synopsis: Harden-Hickey called himself King of Trinidad.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Character(s): Daffy; Deke Parsons; Mrs. DeBoff
First Line: Flatten her, Daffy!
Synopsis: Gangsters plan to rob Mrs. DeBoff by arranging a wrestling match at her garden party.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Art looks like the work in the signed Tumey story in #66.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Black X; Batu; Harrett; Tarby
First Line: Near the end of the reception at the Bowerland Country Club...
Synopsis: Mr. Harrett is killed after experimenting with adding drugs to tobacco.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Art identical to Zolnerowich's credited Swing Sisson stories in Feature Comics (Quality, 1939 series) #111 and #119.

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