Smash Comics
#29
(December 1941)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-10-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- E. M. Arnold
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Ed Cronin
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
[no title indexed]
Midnight / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Midnight [David Clark]; Gabby; Doc Mortimer Wackey; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Bozo the Robot (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); Archie O'Toole (inset); The Purple Trio [Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill; Warren] (inset)
[no title indexed]
The Ray / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall (signed as E. Lectron)
- Inks
- Reed Crandall (signed as E. Lectron)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Amid the boom of big guns and the rumble of mule-drawn caissons, war games get underway at Fort Sherman, Texas...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; The Chief; El Lobo (villain)
- Synopsis
- German spies and Mexican bandits terrorize Fort Sherman, Texas.
- Reprints
-
in O Faísca (Sociedade Editora A.L.M.A., Ltd.ª, 1943 series) #1 (6 de Março de 1943), #2 (13 de Março de 1943), #3 (27 de Março de 1943), #4 (3 de Abril de 1943), #5 (10 de Abril de 1943), #6 (17 de Abril de 1943) -
in Special Edition Series (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #2 (1974) [black and white]
-
Double Trouble
Rookie Rankin / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Tim; Sniffer; Louie the Louse; Sgt. Burns
- Synopsis
- Rankin runs into a crook who looks just like him.
[no title indexed]
Archie O'Toole / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Another Crackpot Job-Seeker
- Genre
- humor; children
[no title indexed]
The Jester / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (signed) (sourced)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (signed) (sourced)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (signed) (sourced)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (signed) (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Disaster strikes in the subway system beneath the streets of New York!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; mad scientist (villain)
- Synopsis
- A mad scientist invents a machine that can make solids intangible, thus allowing someone to literally walk through walls.
[In Hollywood]
Wildfire / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Robert Turner (signed)
- Pencils
- Jim Mooney (signed)
- Inks
- Jim Mooney (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wildfire; Martin Conway
- Synopsis
- Wildfire battles arsonists at a movie studio.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Invisible Justice / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Art Pinajian (signed as Art Gordon)
- Pencils
- Art Pinajian (signed as Art Gordon)
- Inks
- Art Pinajian (signed as Art Gordon)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On a dark and mysterious island in the Caribbean, Kent Thurston, the Invisible Hood, stumbles upon a threatening sore spot in the side of democracy...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Mamma Le Blanc; Wagner (villain); Lopez (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Invisible Hood destroys an enemy submarine base in the Caribbean.
The Return of Chango!
Midnight / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); J. J. Farsnby; Chango (villain)
- Synopsis
- Chango returns, kidnapping Gabby, who then entices people into his fortune telling shop, hypnotizing them into giving up their valuables. Very powerful in nature, Chango even changes Midnight into a dog when the hero shows up to apprehend the evil magician.
[no title indexed]
Wings Wendall / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Vern Henkel (signed as Vern)
- Pencils
- Vern Henkel (signed as Vern)
- Inks
- Vern Henkel (signed as Vern)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The deadly rattle of machine guns fills the sky over a country war-ridden for five years...
- Genre
- aviation
- Characters
- Wings Wendall; Bullet Plane; Agent 5; Miss Sanders
- Synopsis
- Wings flies to China to rescue an American agent.
[no title indexed]
Wun Cloo / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- Inks
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Calling Wun Cloo! Calling Wun Cloo!
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
The Purple Trio / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alex Blum (signed as S. M. Regi)
- Inks
- Alex Blum (signed as S. M. Regi)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The ex-vaudeville team plays its biggest act unrehearsed, below the Rio Grande...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd]; Pedro Martinez (villain)
[Lord Otterlake]
Espionage Starring Black X / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Dick French (signed as Will Erwin) (sourced)
- Pencils
- Witmer Williams
- Inks
- Witmer Williams
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- spy; adventure; war
- Characters
- Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Colonel Atwater; Lord Otterlake; Madame Doom (villain); false Lord Otterlake (villain)
- Synopsis
- Madame Doom tries to replace Lord Otterlake with one of her own men.
Indexer Notes
Williams is credited on drawing this feature.
Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Dick French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43).
[no title indexed]
Bozo the Robot / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- George Brenner ? (signed as Wayne Reid)
- Pencils
- George Brenner (signed as Wayne Reid)
- Inks
- George Brenner (signed as Wayne Reid)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A news reporter races through the halls of the Senate Building in Washington --
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Bozo; Hugh Hazzard; Senator Janes; Emil Kurt
- Synopsis
- When Senator Janes proposes the death penalty for spies, his life is in danger.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Midnight -
1.
["Amid the boom of big guns and the rumble of mule-drawn caissons, war games get underway at Fort Sherman, Texas..."]
The Ray -
2.
Double Trouble
Rookie Rankin -
3.
["Another Crackpot Job-Seeker"]
Archie O'Toole -
4.
["Disaster strikes in the subway system beneath the streets of New York!"]
The Jester -
5.
[In Hollywood]
Wildfire -
6.
["On a dark and mysterious island in the Caribbean, Kent Thurston, the Invisible Hood, stumbles upon a threatening sore spot in the side of democracy..."]
Invisible Justice -
7.
The Return of Chango!
Midnight -
8.
["The deadly rattle of machine guns fills the sky over a country war-ridden for five years..."]
Wings Wendall -
9.
["Calling Wun Cloo! Calling Wun Cloo!"]
Wun Cloo -
10.
["The ex-vaudeville team plays its biggest act unrehearsed, below the Rio Grande..."]
The Purple Trio -
11.
The Fiery Warning
Jimmy Christian -
12.
[Lord Otterlake]
Espionage Starring Black X -
13.
["A news reporter races through the halls of the Senate Building in Washington --"]
Bozo the Robot
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Craig Delich
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Nuno Miranda
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Adam Spector
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