Smash Comics #51

(March 1944)

[Wild Bill Hiccup] (Table of Contents)

Midnight / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inks:

Paul Gustavson (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; superhero

Characters:

Midnight; Wild Bill Hiccup; Doc Wackey; Gabby; Sniffer Snoop; Hotfoot; Owl Ousler

Synopsis:

Wild Bill Hiccup is so full of gas he floats, plus he never stops hiccuping.

The Case of the Broken Buddha (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mort Leav

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Rookie Rankin; Bernice; Carl; Ralph; Lucius

Synopsis:

Aunt Paisley dies and leaves her collection of Buddha statues to her nephew Ralph. He doesn't know why they're worth anything, but people are dying to get their hands on them.

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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

[The Flying Mountain] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Inks:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Marksman; Anna; Pico; Utu; Machi; Major Mitsui

[Bismark the Blackmailer] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Klaus Nordling

Pencils:

Klaus Nordling (signed)

Inks:

Klaus Nordling

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Lady Luck; Helga; Peecolo; Moxy Bismark; Daphne Dymple of the Lady Luck Patrol; Pinky Binnacle

Synopsis:

When Moxy threatens to blackmail Brenda Banks, she uses the Lady Luck Patrol to throw him off the track.

Reprints:

• from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #?

Crown of Clovis (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Rico (signed)

Inks:

Don Rico (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Black X; Batu; Lorie; Moreau; Pierre Caubay; Count Dauger

Flight Into the Future (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Indexer Notes

text story

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Wun Cloo / comic story / 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

Indexer Notes

Ralph Johns is a pen name for Jack Cole, who is credited only on art on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who

[The Bar Nothing Ranch] (Table of Contents)

Daffy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Milt Stein?

Inks:

Milt Stein?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; sports

Characters:

Daffy; Deke; Red Dog Sam; The Jukes Band

Keywords:

wrestling

[The Crispin Mansion Caper] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mort Leav

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Jester; McGinty; Agatha Crispin; Eleanor Crispin; Levitts

Indexer Notes

Originally pencil credits to "Pete Riss?". Mort Leav is credited on pencils for this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and it mathces very well his layout with one panel on several pages without background, just faces or figures, like in his signed story in Wanted Comics #52. Also notice his large hands and peculiar way of running.