Four Color #36 - Smilin' Jack

(1944)

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Smilin' Jack / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Zack Mosley

Pencils

Zack Mosley (credited)

Inks

Zack Mosley (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Boody Rogers

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Mary, you've been swell - You've nursed Dixie...

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Smilin' Jack; Mary; Dixie Lee; Downwind Jaxon; Fat Stuff; Woo Woo

Synopsis

Just when Jack is set to marry Mary, his former fiancee Dixie Lee returns, now widowed and blind. Downwind is chased by all the girls he's promised to marry. Fat Stuff courts fellow South Sea islander Woo Woo.

Reprints

• from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #86 (April 1943)
which is reprinted
• from Smilin' Jack (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.) 1939.xx.xx
• in Smilin' Jack [Popped Wheat Giveaway] (Sig Feuchtwanger, 1947 series) (1947)

Indexer Notes

Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white.

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Smilin' Jack / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Zack Mosley

Pencils

Zack Mosley (credited)

Inks

Zack Mosley (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Boody Rogers

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh, Jack - I wish you and Mary wouldn't bother...

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Smilin' Jack; Mary; Dixie Lee

Synopsis

Mary and Jack fly Dixie to a specialist to check her eyes. On the way Dixie leaves the plane, not wanting to come between Jack and Mary. She stumbles into a building housing a wind tunnel. Jack and Mary follow and the three are caught inside when the fan motor of the tunnel is activated.

Reprints

• from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #87 (May 1943)
which is reprinted
• from Smilin' Jack (Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate) 1939-XX-XX - 1939-11-XX

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Smilin' Jack / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Zack Mosley

Pencils

Zack Mosley (credited)

Inks

Zack Mosley (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Boody Rogers

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Don't worry about your burns, Jack

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Smilin' Jack; Mary; Dixie Lee; Fat Stuff; Woo Woo; Downwind Jaxon; Rabbit

Synopsis

While saving Dixie and Mary in the wind tunnel, Jack's legs are badly burned by a steam pipe. While he's recuperating in the hospital, his roommate is Downwind, who was roughed up by all the girls he was stringing along. Meanwhile, Fat Stuff marries Woo Woo. Dixie and Mary both disappear, each thinking Jack is in love with the other girl. To take his mind off his troubles, Downwind convinces Jack to open a pilot training school.

Reprints

• from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #88 (June 1943)
which is reprinted
• from Smilin' Jack (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.) ?

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Smilin' Jack / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Zack Mosley

Pencils

Zack Mosley (credited)

Inks

Zack Mosley (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Boody Rogers

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Me think me let-um gov-um-ment teach-um me...

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Smilin' Jack; Downwind Jaxon; Fat Stuff; Woo Woo; Rabbit; Longdrink (cameo); Dove (cameo)

Synopsis

Jack opens his pilot training classes for college students. One student is a problem as he is deathly afraid of planes. Jack keeps him around, but he doesn't improve.

Reprints

• from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #89 (July 1943)
which is reprinted
• from Smilin' Jack daily (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.) 1939-12-XX

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Smilin' Jack / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Zack Mosley

Pencils

Zack Mosley (credited)

Inks

Zack Mosley (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Boody Rogers

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Don't be nervous Longdrink. There's nothing to...

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Smilin' Jack; Rabbit; Madam Mongoose; Longdrink; Dove; Musclebound; Dribble

Synopsis

Madam Mongoose gathers a group who all have had trouble with the law. She has a plot to kill pilot training instructors and demoralize their students. First, however, she must deal with a traitor from an earlier venture.

Reprints

• from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #90 (August 1943)
which is reprinted
• from Smilin' Jack daily (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate Co., Inc.) 1940-01-XX

Indexer Notes

Code number "P.C. #90 438" for Popular Comics #90 is at the bottom of the first page.

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Smilin' Jack / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Zack Mosley

Pencils

Zack Mosley (credited)

Inks

Zack Mosley (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Boody Rogers

First Line of Dialogue or Text

O-Oh - I - I can't land it alone!

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Smilin' Jack; Downwind Jaxon; Fat Stuff; Rabbit; Madam Mongoose; Longdrink; Dove; Bill

Synopsis

Madam Mongoose and Longdrink sabotage Jack's plane before he demonstrates some maneuvers for his class. In a last minute switch, Jack is called away and Bill, the other instructor, takes the plane up and is killed when it crashes. Madam Mongoose's second plan is to give Jack some chewing gum laced with sleeping powder. Jack falls asleep after takeoff, but his student is able to land the plane safely.

Reprints

• from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #91 (September 1943)
which is reprinted
• from Smilin' Jack daily (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate Co., Inc.) 1940-01-12 - 1940-01-28 ? [See notes.]

Indexer Notes

Code number "P.C. 91-439" for Popular Comics #91 is at bottom of first page.

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Smilin' Jack / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Zack Mosley

Pencils

Zack Mosley (credited)

Inks

Zack Mosley (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Boody Rogers

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Honey Lamb! Uncle Theon welcomes you!

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Smilin' Jack; Downwind Jaxon; Madam Mongoose; Longdrink; Musclebound; Dixie Lee; The Head (cameo); Dark Eyes

Synopsis

Jack and Downwind attend the Diplomats' Ball, but so does Madam Mongoose. She has Jack and Downwind abducted and flown to her headquarters, where they find Dixie Lee busy folding leaflets, oblivious to their anti-American content. Madam Mongoose turns out to be an associate of Jack's old foe, The Head, and she plans to eliminate Jack, Downwind and Dixie by taking them into the stratosphere in an unpressurized plane where they will die from lack of oxygen. The plane ices up and crashes, but Jack, Downwind, Mary and Madam Mongoose all survive. Madam Mongoose escapes while Jack is going for help.

Reprints

• from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #92 (October 1943)
which is reprinted
• from Smilin' Jack daily (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate Co., Inc.) 1940-XX-XX - 1940-XX-XX

Indexer Notes

Code number "P.C. 92-4310" for Popular Comics #92 is at bottom of first page.

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Smilin' Jack / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Zack Mosley

Pencils

Zack Mosley (credited)

Inks

Zack Mosley (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Boody Rogers

First Line of Dialogue or Text

If I opened up to 40 inches, no doubt this bus would...

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Smilin' Jack; Downwind Jaxon; Dixie Lee; Madam Mongoose

Synopsis

Madam Mongoose escapes, but can't resist watching what happens to a military plane that was sabotaged earlier. The sabotage is effective, but Madam Mongoose is killed by the careening plane when it crash-lands.

Reprints

• from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #93 (November 1943) [reprints pages 1-2]
which is reprinted
• from Smilin' Jack daily (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate Co., Inc.) 1940-xx-xx - 1940-xx-xx

Indexer Notes

Story begins on the inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color.