Smash Comics #38

(December 1942)

Cave-Man Menace (Table of Contents)

Midnight / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; superhero

Characters:

Midnight; Gabby; Zor, the Caveman; Sir Squinchworth; Doc Wackey; Lady Squinchworth

Synopsis:

Sir Squinchworth brings back his latest discovery from Siberia, a living caveman.

[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

[The Prophecy] (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:

adventure; war

Characters:

Marksman; Madame Wipasky; Black Wilhelm; Vorka

Synopsis:

Wilhelm gets his fortune told, and doesn't like the results.

The Cornfield-McJug Feud (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

George Brenner (signed)

Inks:

George Brenner (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Bozo the Robot; Hugh Hazzard; Lem Cornfield; Cy McJug

Indexer Notes

Brenner is only credited on art on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

The Kleptomaniac (Table of Contents)

Jester / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inks:

Paul Gustavson (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Jester; McGinty; Terwilliger J. Thump

Synopsis:

McGinty can't capture the Kleptomaniac because the Commissioner's his uncle.

Indexer Notes

Gustavson is only credited on art for this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

[The Ivory Buddha] (Table of Contents)

Espionage Starring Black X / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Alez Kotzky (signed)

Inks:

Ruben Moreira?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Black X; Batu; Tonga Bey; Von Pap; Black Ogre

The Man of a Hundred Heads (Table of Contents)

Ray / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Rudy Palais

Inks:

Rudy Palais

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Ray; The Headsman; Sue Saunders

[The Warehouser's Beat] (Table of Contents)

Rookie Rankin / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Witmer Williams

Inks:

Witmer Williams

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Rookie Rankin; The Warehousers; Warden Jones; Commissioner

Indexer Notes

Originally credited "Rudy Palais ?", but Palais has a very marked line from the eye down the cheek in sideview and also a peculiar blot as nostril not connected to the wing of the nose. Not him here.
The art is identical to William's other credited stories in this feature, #40 and #41, and his signed "Eagle Evans" story in Police Comics #1. Most faces in nearly frontview with only one ear showing, and very large rounded jaw and chin are special.

Christmas Mystery (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

The Third Degree (Table of Contents)

Wun Cloo / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed)

Inks:

Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; detective-mystery

Characters:

Wun Cloo (detective)

Indexer Notes

Cole is credited only on drawing this feature, and Ralph Johns is his pen name, from Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

Men Marked For Death (Table of Contents)

Yankee Eagle / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Gabriele

Inks:

Al Gabriele

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Jerry Noble [Yankee Eagle] (introduction)

Indexer Notes

not the same strip as in MILITARY COMICS