Smash Comics #19

(February 1941)

[Slash Scraponi's Escape] (Table of Contents)

The Ray / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed)

Inks:

Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Ray [Lanford "Happy" Terrill]; un-named Warden of Bedlam Island prison; Slash Scraponi (villain, introduction); Corny Hogan(villain, death); un-named fake Warden of Bedlam Island prison (villain)

Synopsis:

Corny Hogan turns state's evidence on Slash Scarponi, and the criminal is sentenced to Bedlam Island prison for twenty years. However, Slash is still able to control his mob on the outside because he has a phony warden in charge of the prison. When Happy Terrill begins putting the heat on Scarponi, the mobster decides it's time to break out of prison and get Terrill.

Reprinted:

• in The Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2011 series) (November, 2011)

Indexer Notes

Story title amended to that found in the reprint.

["I don't mind being up to my neck in airplane grease..."] (Table of Contents)

Wings Wendall / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Vernon Henkel

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel

Inks:

Vernon Henkel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

aviation

[Madame La Zinga] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

humor; kid

["Just came in by phone, Barry!"] (Table of Contents)

Scarlet Seal / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry Francis Campbell

Pencils:

Harry Francis Campbell [as Duane Byrd Monroe]

Inks:

Harry Francis Campbell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective

Characters:

Barry Moore (Scarlet Seal); Capt. Moore

Graft (Table of Contents)

Midnight / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole (signed)

Pencils:

Jack Cole (signed)

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; adventure

Characters:

Midnight (Dave Clark);Old Man Dobbs; Bobby

Synopsis:

Midnight investigates graft and corruption at an orphanage.

["Don't tell me he's thinkin'!"] (Table of Contents)

Purple Trio / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

S. M. Iger

Pencils:

Alex Blum

Inks:

Alex Blum

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

["You are to enlist at the armory as a raw recruit..."] (Table of Contents)

Espionage Starring Black X / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Celardo

Inks:

John Celardo

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Wun Cloo / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gill Fox

Pencils:

Gill Fox

Inks:

Gill Fox

Content Information

Genre:

humor; detective

["We're off, Chuck--to do or die for the geographic society!"] (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 (Invisible Hood); Chuck; Gordon Stack

Synopsis:

Kent and Chuck crash land in a hidden Land that Time Forgot in the arctic.

[Shauri] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Bob Powell

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

The Mummy Speaks (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert M. Hyatt

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Jimmy Christian

["We are all helpless until the pilot lands!"] (Table of Contents)

Magno / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

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Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

[The Lamas of the Red Dragon] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Vernon Henkel

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel

Inks:

Vernon Henkel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective

["What happened?"] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

George Brenner

Pencils:

George Brenner

Inks:

George Brenner

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction