Smash Comics #15

(October 1940)

Fort Johnson Blown Up (Table of Contents)

Espionage Starring Black X / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner [as Will Erwin, with some help from the shop]

Inks:

Will Eisner [as Will Erwin, with some help from the shop]

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Black X; Batu; Frits Moronoff

Synopsis:

Black X stops saboteurs from blowing up the Golder Dam

[Chic Covers the Opera] (Table of Contents)

Chic Carter / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel

Inks:

Vernon Henkel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective

Characters:

Chic Carter; Sgt. Monahan; The Phantom

Synopsis:

Carter searches for a phantom killer in an opera house.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Wun Cloo / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gill Fox (signed)

Pencils:

Gill Fox (signed)

Inks:

Gill Fox

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; detective

Murder In the Wings (Table of Contents)

Purple Trio / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Iger [as S. M. Regi]

Pencils:

Alex Blum ? (as S.M. Regi]

Inks:

Alex Blum ? (as S.M. Regi]

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Rocky; Tiny; Warren; Sandra Starr

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Clip Chance at Cliffside / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

George Brenner ?

Inks:

George Brenner ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

sports

Characters:

Clip Chance; Spud Doyle; Gill Fox

Synopsis:

Clip plays baseball for a change, but still runs afoul of gamblers, gets clonked on the head, and has to parachute into the middle of the fifth inning in order to save the team.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Small Stuff / filler / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

John Devlin

Pencils:

John Devlin

Inks:

John Devlin

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

gags

[Evening in the Oriental Museum] (Table of Contents)

Invisible Justice / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Art Pinajian ? (as Art Gordon)

Inks:

Art Pinajian ? (as Art Gordon)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Kent Thurston; Ruhle; Nolan; Robbins; Betty Robbins

[Cadava the Crumbler] (Table of Contents)

The Ray / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Lou Fine [as E. Lectron]

Inks:

Lou Fine

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

The Ray; Diane; Soo Choo; Cadava the Crumbler

["So this is Mexico"] (Table of Contents)

Archie O'Toole / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

George Tuska [as Bud Thomas]

Pencils:

George Tuska [as Bud Thomas]

Inks:

George Tuska [as Bud Thomas]

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

Bobby Feller (Table of Contents)

Sportraits / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gill Fox

Pencils:

Gill Fox (signed)

Inks:

Gill Fox

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

sports

[Vulcan Metz] (Table of Contents)

Wings Wendall / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel (signed)

Inks:

Vernon Henkel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

aviation

Characters:

Wings Wendall; Vulcan Metz; Diane

Synopsis:

Wings' place is taken by a German spy who hopes to steal an American plane being delivered to the allies.

The Coward (Table of Contents)

Jimmy Christian / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert M. Hyatt

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Indexer Notes

text story

["A Gunblast shatters the stillness of the night"] (Table of Contents)

Magno / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inks:

Paul Gustavson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Magno (Tom Dalton); Mike; Bob Green; Weasel; Spatelle

[Shara] (Table of Contents)

Abdul the Arab / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell [as Powell Roberts]

Inks:

Bob Powell [as Powell Roberts]

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Abdul; Hassan; Princess Shara; Achmed

The Ghost Gang (Table of Contents)

Bozo the Robot / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

George Brenner ? [as Wayne Reid]

Inks:

George Brenner ? [as Wayne Reid]

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Bozo; Hugh Hazzard; Ghost Gang