Smash Comics #37

(November 1942)

Doc Wackey Goes Berserk! (Table of Contents)

Midnight / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; adventure

Characters:

Midnight; Doc Wackey; Gabby; Skull Duggery; The Professor

Synopsis:

When The Professor demands Doc submit to his experiments in exchange for Midnight's life, Wackey ends up with super speed, which he proceeds to dedicate to a life of crime!

[Rescuing Papa] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Alex Kotzky (signed)

Inks:

Alex Kotzky

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Black X; Batu; Tinka Van Doorne; Peter Van Doorne

Synopsis:

A little girl asks Black X to rescue her father who is being held by the Nazis behind enemy lines.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Archie O'Toole / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bernard Dibble

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

[Tough Tony] (Table of Contents)

Jester / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul Gustavson

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inks:

Paul Gustavson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Jester; Tough Tony; Dagger Joe; Trigger

Synopsis:

Chuck Lane asks that the toughest juvenile offender be paroled in his custody.

Dean of Darkness (Table of Contents)

Wildfire / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Turner (signed)

Pencils:

Jim Mooney (signed)

Inks:

Jim Mooney

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Dean of Darkness; Wildfire

Synopsis:

The Dean of Darkness tries to hold Carol Martin for ransom, not realizing she's Wildfire.

Indexer Notes

last appearance

The Kidnapping of Peter Percy Gotgelt III (Table of Contents)

Bozo the Robot / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]

Pencils:

George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]

Inks:

George Brenner

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Peter Percy Gotgelt III; Hugh Hazzard; Bozo; The Terrible Trio

Synopsis:

A trio of kidnappers find a little boy too much to handle.

[The Frozen Lands of the Midnight Sun] (Table of Contents)

Ray / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Reed Crandall

Inks:

Reed Crandall

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Ray; Bud

Synopsis:

The Ray searches for a spy who has ferreted out plans for an allied invasion of Norway.

["A G-Man Is Loose Among Crooks"] (Table of Contents)

Rookie Rankin / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Arthur Peddy (signed)

Inks:

Arthur Peddy

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective

Characters:

Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Artie

Synopsis:

Rankin breaks up a counterfeiting ring that makes phony rationing coupons.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Wun Cloo / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Content Information

Genre:

humor; detective

["Ghastly Web of Revenge"] (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

Characters:

Rocky; Warren; Tiny; Peters

Synopsis:

A disgruntled zoo employee, lets the animals loose to get revenge on the director.

Indexer Notes

last appearance

Spy (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

[The Undersea Wolf] (Table of Contents)

Wings Wendall / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Vernon Henkel (signed)

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel (signed)

Inks:

Vernon Henkel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

aviation

Characters:

Wings Wendall; Captain Kroll; Spinner Benson

Indexer Notes

last appearance

The Amazing Adventures of the Three Shadows (Table of Contents)

Marksman / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Powell?

Pencils:

Alex Koda

Inks:

Alex Koda

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war; adventure

Characters:

Marksman; Schtuper; Vorka; The Three Shadows

Synopsis:

A Czech, an Austrian and a Pole escape from a concentration camp and join the underground as the Three Shadows.