Smash Comics #67

(October 1946)

It Was Murder (Table of Contents)

Midnight / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson

Inks:

Paul Gustavson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; superhero

Characters:

Midnight [Dave Clark]; Annabelle Sweete; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop; Hotfoot; Westcott; Denslow

Synopsis:

Midnight hides a witness at Dave Clark's house, but the boys think she's moving in permanently and try to drive her out.

["Another year of my reign and another birthday"] (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

Characters:

Archie O'Toole (king)

Synopsis:

O'Toole appears in public with all his birthday gifts.

["G-gosh Marge, C-can't I sit this one out?"] (Table of Contents)

Spunky / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sid Lazarus (signed)

Inks:

Sid Lazarus (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Spunky; Marge (girl friend); Curly (rival); Pug; (pal)

Synopsis:

Spunky and his rival, Curly, are invited to the Anniversary Party.

[The Forest Primeval!] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Pete Riss

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Rookie Ranking; Harvey Mooden

Synopsis:

Rankin battles a grizzly bear in the middle of the city.

Indexer Notes

Originally credited "Arthur Peddy ?", but he has more crowded panels and akward moving hands, pointed ears and more expressions on faces. Compare his Rookie Rankin in issue #35-36. This is similar art to the many Manhunter stories in Police Comics credited to Peter Riss on pencils. Probably a mix up by Who's Who, who has him only on ink.

Bob Hughes agrees on Riss pencils.

["There once was a man who lived too long"] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Rosenberger

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Black X; Jon Gruger; Batu

Synopsis:

There was once a man who had lived too long. The voices told him so.

Indexer Notes

This is most probably John Rosenberger on pencils, when looking at Black X in the splash panel, and also the many close up side views and figures in bird view, hands and foreshortening movements of figures. He also has pencilled the story in #81, but different inkers. Very much like Rosenberger's work on The Fly #13 and others in that series. His protuding lower lips seems to be changed by the inker, except in Black X in first panel.

["Dadblast the @#$%! I might have known something like this would happen..."] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Klaus Nordling (signed)

Pencils:

Klaus Nordling (signed)

Inks:

Klaus Nordling (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Sergeant Sloburn; Tag Peerson; Bucko Franson; Georgie

Synopsis:

A war orphan gets involved in an organized crime investigation.

Indexer Notes

Nordling is credited on script and art on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

The Mysterious Horse (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; non-fiction

Characters:

Jimmy Christian (reporter); Tod Haley; Alexander the Great; Genghis Khan; Napoleon; Cortez

Synopsis:

The evolution and use of the horse.

"Now Wun Cloo will have Eel Eager in jail for good!" (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; detective-mystery

Characters:

Wun Cloo; Eel Eager; Ima Shyster

Synopsis:

Wun Cloo knows how to keep Eel Eager in jail.

["A death defying wrestling match on horseback!"] (Table of Contents)

Daffy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bart Tumey (signed)

Inks:

Bart Tumey (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; sports

Characters:

Daffy; Deke; Tamale (outlaw)

Synopsis:

Daffy is mistaken for a rich heiress out west and is kidnapped.

Keywords:

wrestling

Lord Mogsworth (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sam Citron

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Lord Mogsworth

Synopsis:

Lord Mog has come with an introduction from Scotland Yard to study police methods in America.

Indexer Notes

Similar art to the credited pencil work on Manhunter stories in Police Comics #37-#59 by Peter Riss, and the face at bottom of page 6 is very much his, V-shaped and eyes far apart, and otherwise little expression.

Pencil credit revised from Pete Riss to Citron by Craig Delich 2013-5-9, per Bob Hughes.