Smash Comics #80

(December 1948)

Big-Hearted Bosco (Table of Contents)

Midnight / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole (signed)

Inks:

Jack Cole (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; adventure

Characters:

Midnight; Doc Wackey; Gabby; Sniffer Snoop; Hotfoot; Big Hearted Bosco; Googan

Synopsis:

Big-Hearted Bosco offers to buy all property within a half mile of Remy Square. Name your price!

["Light Breeze"] (Table of Contents)

Citronella / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gill Fox

Pencils:

Gill Fox (signed)

Inks:

Gill Fox

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Citronella; Mr. Flick; Awful Rumpus; Mr. Mogul

Synopsis:

Citronella gets her dad a job as a prop man on her new movie.

Bee Culture (Table of Contents)

Archie O'Toole / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bernard Dibble

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Archie O'Toole (king)

Synopsis:

A hobby is reommended for the king's royal helth.

Indexer Notes

The eyes of Archie are like Dibble's other credited stories.

Tsin (Table of Contents)

Black X / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Belfi

Inks:

John Belfi

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Black X; Batu; Tsin; Mr. Jakarta; Officer Gilhooley

Synopsis:

Mr. Jakarta the new president of Melanesia, receives an ancient carving which he says means he will die within hours.

Indexer Notes

Originally credited "Dan Zolnerowich ?", but the many close ups and crouching figures with an abundance of inklines on the creases in clothing must be Belfi, and it match well his signed work on Durango Kid, and Buck Roper in Black Diamond Comics.

[Blackjack Jordan] (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; Helga; Blackjack Jordan

Synopsis:

Gangsters force Peecolo to did in the dump, thinking he's somebody else.

Reprints:

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

For Crying Out Loud (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bart Tumey (signed)

Inks:

Bart Tumey (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Batch Batchelor; Bunny Bananas

Synopsis:

Batch tries to make Bunny's movie fantasies come real.

Indexer Notes

Tumey is only credited on art on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

The Open Window (Table of Contents)

Midnight / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Dave Clark; Mrs. Bulfinch; Mr. G. Rogers Bulfinch; Mr. Prentiss

Synopsis:

Mr. Bulfinch is a henpecked husband and is pushed out of a window by two realtives.

[Stoolie Pete] (Table of Contents)

Jester / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dan Zolnerowich

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Jester; Stoolie Pete; McGinty

Synopsis:

Stoolie Pete is kidnapped after he offers to give evidence to save an innocent man.

Indexer Notes

Bent knees and way of walking and running, and also the grinning and staring faces must be Zolne, but the inking is not like in his signed stories in Fight Comics or the Jumbo Comics covers.

["The Forests are full of deadwood!"] (Table of Contents)

Daffy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bart Tumey

Pencils:

Bart Tumey

Inks:

Bart Tumey

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; sports

Characters:

Daffy Dill; Deke; Pierre Lamorg; Montrose

Synopsis:

Daffy is in Canada and is kidnapped by an outlaw who wants a housekeeper.

Keywords:

wrestling