Smash Comics
#76
(April 1948)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- E. M. Arnold
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Nancy Smith (credited) (editor); Busy Arnold (credited as Everett M. Arnold) (business manager, publisher)
Midnight and his Pals Bowl Over Crime!
Midnight / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; adventure
- Characters
- Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby; Sniffer Snoop; Hotfoot
[no title indexed]
Midnight / comic story / 11 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Amazon Queen of Femalia
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hotfoot; Zogar (villain, Menna's husband); Queen Menna (villain)
- Synopsis
- Doc gets mistaken for Ragoz, husband of Queen Menna and is kidnapped by Amazons.
Indexer Notes
Story was not drawn by Jack Cole.
[Cindy Lou's Swindle]
Daffy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Characters
- Daffy; Deke; Cindy Lou; Ed Boke
- Synopsis
- Ed and Cindy Lou try to put one over on Daffy by having Cindy Lou pretend to be an old lady, whom Daffy doesn't have the heart to wrestle.
- Keywords
- wrestling
[A Case of Amnesia]
Espionage Starring Black X / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- spy; adventure; war
- Characters
- Black X; Batu; J.D. Coburn; Beef Burton; Rocks Wibert; Dade Solloway
- Synopsis
- J.D. Coburn is worried someone is out to expose his past, which he doesn't know, because he has amnesia.
[no title indexed]
Lady Luck / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Pencils
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Inks
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lady Luck is dead!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Bullhead (villain); Catfish (villain); The Alderman (villain)
- Synopsis
- A rumor that Lady Luck is dead brings all kinds of rats out of the wood work.
- Reprints
-
from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/24/1945 (June 24th, 1945)
-
[no title indexed]
Citronella / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The prunes of anger
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Citronella; Uncle Dunkle; Awful Rumpus; Dainty Rumpus; Ancient Rumpus
- Synopsis
- Citronella makes $50 by letting some Hollywood folks film her family.
Mystery Manor
Midnight / text story / 1.75 pages
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Midnight [Dave Clark]
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.25 page
- Script
- Busy Arnold (credited as Everett M. Arnold) (publisher, business manager)
- Letters
- typeset
[The Con Job]
Batch Bachelor / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Batch Bachelor; Bunny Bananas
- Synopsis
- A panhandler takes Batch and Bunny for all they're worth (about 7 bucks).
[Hypo, the Hypnotist]
The Jester / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Police Chief Hustace McGinty; Mrs. Traycraft; Tilly; Hypo the Hypnotist (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Jester is after Hypo, a master hypnotist, who uses TV to send out his program on a special beam into the living rooms of the wealthy.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Midnight and his Pals Bowl Over Crime!
Midnight -
1.
["The Amazon Queen of Femalia"]
Midnight -
2.
[Cindy Lou's Swindle]
Daffy -
3.
[A Case of Amnesia]
Espionage Starring Black X -
4.
["Lady Luck is dead!"]
Lady Luck -
5.
["The prunes of anger"]
Citronella -
6.
Mystery Manor
Midnight -
7.
[no title indexed]
-
8.
[The Con Job]
Batch Bachelor -
9.
[Hypo, the Hypnotist]
The Jester
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Adam Spector
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
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