Smash Comics #47

(October 1943)

[Wanted! Midnight -- Dead or Alive! $1,000,000 Reward!] (Table of Contents: 1)

Midnight / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Gustavson (credited) (sourced)

Pencils

Paul Gustavson (credited) (sourced)

Inks

Paul Gustavson (credited) (sourced)

Colors

?

Letters

Paul Gustavson (sourced)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I think someone doesn't like me!

Genre

adventure; superhero

Characters

Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot Dog; Brains Baroni (villain); Stilleto (villain); Bruiser (villain)

Synopsis

The underworld puts out a million dollar bounty on Midnight, but no one wants to collect on it until Brains Baroni offers a fool-proof, no risk way to get rid of Midnight.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #93 ([September] 2014) [In black-and-white]

Keywords

The Murder Midnight Club

Indexer Notes

Title from the cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Archie O'Toole / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bernard Dibble

Pencils

Bernard Dibble

Inks

Bernard Dibble

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I am ashamed to admit...

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Archie O'Tool (king); Hanratty

[The Great White Way] (Table of Contents: 3)

Daffy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bart Tumey

Inks

Bart Tumey

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; sports

Characters

Daffy; Null and Void (producers); 10 Percent (an agent); a plumber

Synopsis

Daffy suddenly finds herself as a star in a Broadway show with a possible murder on her hands.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #97 (2015)

Keywords

wrestling

Indexer Notes

Script revision from Tumey to ? by Craig Delich. The Who's Who does not indicate that Tumey wrote this feature and no extant evidence proves that he did. The Who's Who also indicates that Tumey only drew Daffy from 1946-49. Other listed artists include Milt Stein in 1945 and Janice Valleau from 1945-46.

Tibet! (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Bernard Sachs (signed)

Inks

Bernard Sachs (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

spy; adventure; war

Characters

Black X; Batu; The Grand Lama; Tura

Synopsis

The Grand Lama brings Black X to his land to investigate his would-be successor.

[The Notorious Yokukasa Brothers] (Table of Contents: 5)

Lady Luck / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Klaus Nordling (signed)

Pencils

Klaus Nordling (signed)

Inks

Klaus Nordling (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Ah, is enough explosive there to destroy all important buildings in city!.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Peecolo; Pinky; Yokukasa Brothers (villains)

Synopsis

The Yokukasa Brothers disguise themselves as children in order to plant bombs

Reprints

• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/12/1942 (July 12, 1942)

Rookie Rankin Takes the Payoff (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Leav

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Rookie Rankin; Sloop Tager; Boss Pete Pinero

Synopsis

Rookie tries to put a stop to a gambling racket run by Sloop Tager

Indexer Notes

Originally credited "Witmer Williams ?", but does not match his other credited stories in this features. Compared with Leav's signed story in Power Comics #4, everything matches, face of the policeman, large hands, way of running with high lifted knees and some panels without backgrounds. Only the inking is different from his signed story.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Wun Cloo / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)

Inks

Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Take that!

Genre

humor; detective-mystery

Characters

Wun Cloo

Synopsis

Wun discovers a big fellow beating up someone because of a poster he sees that he mis-interprets.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #93 ([September] 2014)

[Another William Tell] (Table of Contents: 8)

The Marksman / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Inks

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Fred Guardineer ? (signed) (sourced)

Genre

adventure; war; superhero

Characters

The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; the Nazis (villains); the Japanese [Mito; others un-named] (villains, some die)

Synopsis

Major Hurtz welcomes a delegation of Japanese delegates who have come to Poland to help plan for future attacks on their enemies, and they have the cruelest plan ever to try and smoke out the Marksman.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #93 ([September] 2014) [In black-and-white]

Indexer Notes

Guardineer is only credited on drawing this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

Black Doom (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure; detective-mystery

Characters

Jimmy Christian (detective); Gabrielle Dupard (Mystery Woman); Pierre Dupard

[Mary Slade] (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script

Vern Henkel (signed as Vernon Henkel)

Pencils

Vern Henkel (signed as Vernon Henkel)

Inks

Vern Henkel (signed as Vernon Henkel)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; war

Characters

Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Mary Slade; Mary Slade's brother (death); Kelsey (a Policeman); John Hadley (villain, Mary's cousin); Irwin (villain, Hadley's butler)

Synopsis

A young girl is framed for her brother's murder, and the Yankee Eagle ends up nabbing her cousin for the crime as well as him using a secret radio transmitter to forward vital information for the Japanese.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #93 ([September] 2014) [In black-and-white]

Indexer Notes

Last appearance.

The Adventure of Stoneface! (Table of Contents: 11)

The Jester / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Leav

Inks

Mort Leav

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Stoneface (villain); Rad Romsey (villain, gang chief); Vikko Voroni (villain, death); Whiffy (villain, death)

Synopsis

Stoneface has found his way to the hidden headquarters of Rad Romsey, gang chief, to offer his help in killing the Jester, just as he killed off Romsey's partner, Vikko Voroni.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #93 ([September] 2014) [In black-and-white]

Indexer Notes

This is probably Leav, as it is very similar to his signed stories in Wanted Comics (Orbit-Wanted, 1947 series) #52.