Smash Comics #72

(August 1947)

[The Cownapping Caper] (Table of Contents)

Midnight / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole (signed)

Pencils:

Jack Cole (signed)

Inks:

Jack Cole (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; adventure

Characters:

Midnight; Doc Wackey; Gabby; Sniffer Snoop; Hotfoot; Angela; Percy Sharker

Synopsis:

Midnight is searching for a stolen sapphire, but the criminal is searching for a stolen cow.

Indexer Notes

Cole is creidted on script and art on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

[The Apache Dancer] (Table of Contents)

Daffy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bart Tumey

Inks:

Bart Tumey

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; sports

Characters:

Daffy; Barney; Deke; Gaston; Yvette

Synopsis:

Deke gets Daffy a gig as an apache dancer.

Keywords:

wrestling

[The Dope Smugglers] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dan Zolnerowich

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Black X; Batu; Beef Burton (inspector); Mona

Synopsis:

Two of the force's best men have been killed trying to find the headquarters of the dope runners, and now Inspector Burton summons Blzck X for help.

Indexer Notes

Art identical to Zolne's credited Swing Sisson story in Feature Comics #111 and #119. Faces, way of standing with a bend in the hips and knees. Also the shuffling walking or running are special. The art has some resemblance to Alex Blum, but leg movement is quite different.

["The Life of a Cigar is Brief and Unimportant"] (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; Peecolo; Rat-Ears; Mr. Rample

Synopsis:

A parcel of counterfeit money is picked up at the railway station.

[Cars For Hire] (Table of Contents)

Batch Bachelor / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bart Tumey ?

Pencils:

Bart Tumey ?

Inks:

Bart Tumey ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Batch Bachelor; Bunny Bananas; Junior

Synopsis:

Batch rents a car to take Bunny out.

This Is the Bird (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Jimmy Christian (reoorter); Senor Lopez (miner)

Synopsis:

In the Andes the giant bird out of a legend comes down on the mountain winds and scares the guides and carries off.

Indexer Notes

text story

[The Club Presidency] (Table of Contents)

Spunky / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Gil Fox (signed)

Inks:

Gil Fox (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

teen; humor

Characters:

Spunky; Curly; Marge; Pug

Synopsis:

The boys have an explosive club meeting after Mom's hen drinks some nitroglycerine.

[The Van Gander Kidnap Case] (Table of Contents)

The Jester / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dan Zolnerowich

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Jester; McGinty; Miss Van Gander; Rocky; Migg

Synopsis:

A society dame sends a false kidnapping note to attact Chuck's attention

Indexer Notes

Originally credited "Sam Citron?", but the art is identical to Zolne's credited Swing Sisson story in Feature Comics #111 and #119. Faces, way of standing with a bend in the hips and knees. Also the shuffling walking or running are special, and the grinning face in the last panel. Zolne is credited on pencils on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who