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Issue: Smash Comics #83 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1949
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Issues: #83 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: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Nancy Smith
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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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Truth or Crimesequences Quiz Show Starring Midnight as Quizmaster

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey)
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Pages: 1
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The Quizmaster

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Hot-Foot (a polar bear); Duke Frob; Count Bomp; Mr. Kavity; Professor Lorr
Synopsis: Two crooks try to win the jackpot on Dave's quiz program.
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Pages: 11
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They Laugh Who Win

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective McGinty; Grudge; Pottsy; Kift
Synopsis: The Jester has won the medal for upholding the law and the town's bigwigs want to make a public presentation.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Originally credited "Dan Zolnerowich ?", but the out-stretched leg movement and especially some V-shaped faces with eyes far apart must be Riss, and the inking is not far from his signed story in My Romantic Adventure #56.
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The Clip Joint Caper

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count Raoul DiChange; Natural (villain); Tiger (villain); Snake-Eyes (villain)
Synopsis: Brenda and Count DiChange visit a crooked gambling den which is raided by the Police. Fortunately, Lady Luck is able to salvage some of the Count's winnings for him to keep.
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Pages: 4
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Too Fat Rajah

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Doc Wackey
Character(s): Doc Mortimer Wackey; Maharaja of Laphtjab
Synopsis: Doc has just completed two formulas: one which will reduce overweight people to normal size and the second which will build underweight persons to normal weight.
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[untitled]

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Genres: espionage
Character(s): Black X; Batu; Beef Burton; Carol Styles; Parker Styles; Highcard Hannigan
First Line: When a government official and his beautiful daughter vanish mysteriously, it is Black X who links the city's arch-criminal to their disappearance!
Synopsis: Black X has to rescue a US Mint engraver who has been kidnapped.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The closeup heads in 3/4 rearview are identical to Winter's signed Kangaroo Man story in Choice Comics (Great Comics, 1941 series) #3.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, sports
Character(s): Deke; Daffy; Latuffe; Pierre; Colette
First Line: Your bark is worse than your bite!
Synopsis: Daffy is in Canada and stops a marriage to help a young man who thinks he is a coward.
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Pages: 5

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