Smash Comics
#61
(October 1945)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1945-08-08
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- E. M. Arnold
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Martin deMuth (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1945 Periodicals, page 547.
Gimme Back My Body
Midnight / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Midnight [Dave Clark]; Sniffer Snoop; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Hotfoot; Belinda Marsey; Colin Marsey; Professor Padsel (villain)
- Synopsis
- Professor Padsel's machine can switch minds into different bodies, which results in everybody getting mixed up. Then Padsel uses Midnight's body to commit murder!
Indexer Notes
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
[no title indexed]
Archie O'Toole / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What a change that new outfit makes!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Archie O'Tolle (king)
- Synopsis
- They make Archie look like a king, but can't make him act like one.
[Zambizi the Hypnotist]
Spunky / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sid Lazarus (signed)
- Inks
- Sid Lazarus (signed)
- Colors
- ??
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Remember, Spunky ... there's nothing wrong with you.
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Curly; Marge; Spunky; Pug; Zambizi
- Synopsis
- Zambizi the Hypnotizer is in town. This inspires Curly to hypnotize Spunky a couple of times.
[no title indexed]
Rookie Rankin / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The fabulous necklace of Rajidore on the lovely throat of a Hollywood queen brought out more than the usual quota of fans!
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Rookie Rankin; The Chief; Mona Forbes; Rand; Bleek
- Synopsis
- The fabulous necklace of Rajidore is stolen and Hollywood star Mona Forbes kidnapped.
Indexer Notes
The art is similar the many Manhunter stories in Police Comics (Quality, 1941 series) credited to Riss.
Bob Hughes agrees on Riss pencils.
[Colonel Snath's Murder Plot]
Lady Luck / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Pencils
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Inks
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Hilgo; Peecolo; Colonel Eustace Snath (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Colonel, a persistent foe who has discovered Lady Luck's dual identity, tries to have her killed, and hires some fake painters to get Brenda Banks out of his way. For a time, she lets him think he has succeeded.
- Reprints
-
from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/24/1943 (October 24, 1943)
-
[Queen Mai of Xanxal]
Espionage Starring Black X / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- spy; adventure; war
- Characters
- Black X; Batu; Queen Mai
- Synopsis
- Black X and Batu cross the border into the forbidden kingdom of Xanxal deep in Asia.
Indexer Notes
The two lines between chin and jaws, making him look a bit fat, narrow skull and round lower lip in sideview on Black X, make this the art of Quackenbush. Compare with his signed stories in previous issues.
Cloud of Death
Jimmy Christian / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Jimmy Christian (reporter); Ogo (old chief); Col. Kemper
- Synopsis
- Locust swarms over an oil field in Africa.
Indexer Notes
text story
[no title indexed]
Wun Cloo / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In a deep, dark, dank lair...
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Wun Cloo (detective); Widow Smith; Spike (robber)
- Synopsis
- They say that rich widow Smith carries a mint on her, and Spike plans to get it.
[The Match in the Mine]
Daffy / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Janice Valleau (signed as Ginger)
- Inks
- Janice Valleau (signed as Ginger)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Characters
- Daffy Dill; Deke Parsons; Evelyn Ballit (wrestler)
- Synopsis
- Daffy wrestles in a coal mining town.
- Keywords
- wrestling
[The Busting of Big Nick Lester]
The Jester / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Big Nick Lester (villain)
- Synopsis
- A man is framed by Big Nick and his mob.
Indexer Notes
Originally credited "Sam Citron ?" Similar art to the credited pencil work on Manhunter stories in Police Comics #37-#59 by Peter Riss.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Midnight grows old and his body commits murder!"]
Midnight -
1.
Gimme Back My Body
Midnight -
2.
["What a change that new outfit makes!"]
Archie O'Toole -
3.
[Zambizi the Hypnotist]
Spunky -
4.
["The fabulous necklace of Rajidore on the lovely throat of a Hollywood queen brought out more than the usual quota of fans!"]
Rookie Rankin -
5.
[Colonel Snath's Murder Plot]
Lady Luck -
6.
[Queen Mai of Xanxal]
Espionage Starring Black X -
7.
Cloud of Death
Jimmy Christian -
8.
["In a deep, dark, dank lair..."]
Wun Cloo -
9.
[The Match in the Mine]
Daffy -
10.
[The Busting of Big Nick Lester]
The Jester -
11.
The Return of Dr. Narsty
Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Steinar Ådland
- Pat Conolly
- Craig Delich
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Madrid
- John Pannozzi
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Adam Spector
- Jim Van Dore
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