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Issue: Smash Comics #85 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1949
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Issues: #85 of 85 Issues (86 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
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
Indicia Frequency:
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
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Peggy Sweet; Percentage Graftly
First Line: Midnight stymies a singing swindle!
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In Content Item: FlagSmash Comics #85 published November 1949
as Singing Swindle [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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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); Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Foot (a monkey); Peggy Sweet (a singer); Esmereldy (a hag); Jeb Rukes; Lum Cornfield; Percentage Graftly (villain)
First Line: Do you see a big future in television?
Synopsis: Midnight moves to protect Dave's radio station's most popular singer, who is being swindled by her agent, Percentage Graftly. Graftly retaliates by hiring a hillbilly hag whom he hoped would ruin Dave's first TV show, but the hag's suitors cause such a ruckus on the air that the show is a hit, causing the newspapers to laud Clark's success.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the cover.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Black X; Batu; Beef Burton; Mr. Harrow
First Line: Art is long... life is short...
Synopsis: A stolen painting by DaVinci is copied and sold as genuine.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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.

Final appearance
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The Talent Scouts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count DiChange; Colonel Eustace Snath (villain)
Synopsis: Count DiChange is tricked by fake Hollywood talent scouts.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Final appearance of a Lady Luck reprint in Smash Comics. However, the Lady Luck stories will soon get their own comic book at Quality (Lady Luck (Quality Comics, 1949 Series)), starting in December 1949.
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Midnight's Merry Men

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wacky; Hot-Foot (a polar bear); Sniffer Snoop
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Keith Brewster; Lindsey; Lady Kimberly
First Line: The audience came to see an operetta...
Synopsis: There have been too many mysterious thefts at theatres lately, so the Jester decides to protect wealthy patrons at a performance of "The Mikado."
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Last appearance in the Golden Age of the Jester [Chuck Lane]. Next appearance in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 Series) #31 (March 1984).

Final appearance of The Jester feature.

The V-shaped faces with eyes far apart must be Riss.
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Manuelo de Vega y Bolona

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Character(s): Daffy; Deke; Manuelo de Vega y Bolona
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Final appearance

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