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Issue: Smash Comics #72 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1947
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Issues: #72 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: 06/04/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (8 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
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Foot (a polar bear)
First Line: Midnight chases Angela, the beautiful bovine!
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: These titles are tops!
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Foot (a polar bear); Angela (cow); Percy Sharker (villain); Oscar Bowen; Les Soames; Geraldine (cow)
First Line: All that fuss over an animated milk wagon!
Synopsis: Percy, who stole a valuable sapphire, gets away from Midnight at the Slocum County Fair. Shortly afterwards the prize cow Angela is stolen before the cattle judging competition. While Midnight is searching for the cow, a beautiful dancing girl leads him into Percy's ambush. At the end, Midnight figures out that the sapphire had been stuck in Angela's cowbell. Percy couldn't get the sapphire out, nor remove the cowbell, so had to take Angela with him.
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: This adventure echoes one of Cole's other creations: The Barker.
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The Apache Dancer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Character(s): Daffy; Barney; Deke Parsons; Gaston; Yvette; Jean; Marcel
First Line: No, no, Gaston! Not that hold!
Synopsis: Deke gets Daffy a gig as an apache dancer.
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Pages: 6
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The Dope Smugglers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Batu; Beef Burton (inspector); Mona
First Line: The police, sahib... Inspector Burton calling you!
Synopsis: Two of the force's best men have been killed trying to find the headquarters of the dope runners, and now Inspector Burton summons Black X for help.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Art identical to Zolne's credited Swing Sisson story in Feature Comics #111 and #119. Faces, way of standing with a bend in the hips and knees. Also the shuffling walking or running are special. The art has some resemblance to Alex Blum, but leg movement is quite different.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lady Luck; Peecolo; Rat-Ears; Mr. Rample
First Line: The life of a cigar is brief and unimportant...
Synopsis: A parcel of counterfeit money is picked up at the railway station.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Batch Bachelor
Character(s): Batch Bachelor; Bunny Bananas; Junior; Mr. Shyster
First Line: Hmmmm!
Synopsis: Batch rents a car to take Bunny out.
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This Is the Bird

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jimmy Christian
Character(s): Jimmy Christian (reporter); Senor Lopez (miner); Jose; Chaka
Synopsis: In the Andes the giant bird out of a legend comes down on the mountain winds and scares off gold-seeking guides and carriers.
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Disclose Notes: Text story.
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The Club Presidency

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Spunky; Curly; Marge; Pug; Spunky's mother; government scientist
First Line: See you fellows at the next club meeting!
Synopsis: The boys have an explosive club meeting after Mom's hen drinks some nitroglycerine.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): McGinty; Miss Van Gander; Rocky; Migg; Rafferty; Potlach
First Line: The police department is visited by the daughter of the bluest-blooded society family in the city...
Synopsis: A society dame sends a false kidnapping note to attact Chuck's attention
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The art is identical to Zolnerowich's credited Swing Sisson stories in Feature Comics (Quality, 1939 series) #111 and #119.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Gosh dad, you mean Bendix brakes are on all three!
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How Joe's Body Brought Him Fame Instead of Shame

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Joe
Synopsis: Joe is humiliated on the beach so he takes the Charles Atlas course, so he can beat up guys and impress women.
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Outwitting the Kidnappers

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): U. S. Royal
Synopsis: U. S. Royal stops a kidnappers' car with a spark-interrupter.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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