Smash Comics #85

(October 1949)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Midnight / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Cole

Pencils

Jack Cole

Inks

Jack Cole

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Do you see a big future in television?

Genre

adventure; superhero

Characters

Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Foot (a monkey); Peggy Sweet (a singer); Esmereldy (a hag); Jeb Rukes; Lum Cornfield; Percentage Graftly (villain)

Synopsis

Midnight moves to protect Dave's radio station's most popular singer, who is being swindled by her agent, Percentage Graftly. Graftly retaliates by hiring a hillbilly hag whom he hoped would ruin Dave's first TV show, but the hag's suitors cause such a ruckus on the air that the show is a hit, causing the newspapers to laud Clark's success.

Indexer Notes

Final appearance of the Midnight feature at Quality. The feature will be revived by DC in Secret Origins (DC, 1986 Series) #28 (July 1988)

Final Golden Age appearance of Midnight [Dave Clark]. Appears next in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 Series) #31 (March 1984)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

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Pencils

Chuck Winter

Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Art is long... life is short...

Genre

spy; adventure; war

Characters

Black X; Batu; Beef Burton; Mr. Harrow

Synopsis

A stolen painting by DaVinci is copied and sold as genuine.

Indexer Notes

The closeup heads in 3/4 rearview are identical to Winter's signed Kangaroo Man story in Choice Comics (Great Comics, 1941 series) #3.

Final appearance

[The Talent Scouts] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Klaus Nordling (signed)

Pencils

Klaus Nordling (signed)

Inks

Klaus Nordling (signed)

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count DiChange; Colonel Eustace Snath (villain)

Synopsis

Count DiChange is tricked by fake Hollywood talent scouts.

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Final appearance of a Lady Luck reprint in Smash Comics. However, the Lady Luck stories will soon get their own comic book at Quality (Lady Luck (Quality Comics, 1949 Series)), starting in December 1949.

Midnight's Merry Men (Table of Contents: 4)

Midnight / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure; superhero

Characters

Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wacky; Hot-Foot (a polar bear); Sniffer Snoop

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

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Pencils

Pete Riss

Inks

Pete Riss ?

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The audience came to see an operetta...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Keith Brewster; Lindsey; Lady Kimberly

Synopsis

There have been too many mysterious thefts at theatres lately, so the Jester decides to protect wealthy patrons at a performance of "The Mikado."

Indexer Notes

Last appearance in the Golden Age of the Jester [Chuck Lane]. Next appearance in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 Series) #31 (March 1984).

Final appearance of The Jester feature.

The V-shaped faces with eyes far apart must be Riss.

[Manuelo de Vega y Bolona] (Table of Contents: 6)

Daffy / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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Genre

humor; sports

Characters

Daffy; Deke; Manuelo de Vega y Bolona

Keywords

wrestling

Indexer Notes

Final appearance