Smash Comics
#44
(July 1943)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-05-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- E. M. Arnold
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- George Brenner
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 3.
[no title indexed]
Midnight / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wow, Midnight!
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey
- Reprints
[The Murder of Jinny Baloney]
Midnight / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (signed) (sourced)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (signed) (sourced)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (signed) (sourced)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (signed) (sourced)
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot Foot; Bull Baloney; Johnny Peters; Jinny Baloney (death)
- Synopsis
- Bull Baloney "hires" Midnight to find out who murdered his wife. The hero uses a new invention of Doc's: a helium filled canoe for airborne escape.
[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
- Why Count DiChange.. I thought you'd been drafted
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count DiChange; counterfeit Lady Luck (villain)
- Synopsis
- Count DiChange is suckered into buying phony war bonds from Lady Luck, and it isn't Brenda Banks!
- Reprints
-
from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/5/1942 (July 5th, 1942)
-
[The Song of Freedom]
Espionage Starring Black X / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- spy; adventure; war
- Characters
- Black X; Batu; General Volk; Barney Brand
[no title indexed]
Wun Cloo / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- Inks
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Allight! Allright! I'm comin'!
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Wun Cloo (detective)
[no title indexed]
The Marksman / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Fred Guardineer (signed as Fred)
- Inks
- Fred Guardineer (signed as Fred)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As this story opens we find him on the edge of the Colombian jungles of South American where horrible death strikes the unwary in this steaming land of tropical mystery.
- Genre
- adventure; war; superhero
- Characters
- The Marksman [Baron Polavski]; Anna
[no title indexed]
Archie O'Toole / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This Alfred the Great was quite a king!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Archie O'Toole
Little Atmos Fear
Daffy / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Characters
- Daffy Dill; Atmos Fear (villain)
- Synopsis
- Atmos Fear was cursed so that he could heat up to 300 degrees or down to -300. Daffy tied him up and used his abilities to heat and air condition her home!
- Keywords
- wrestling
[Hurricane]
Rookie Rankin / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Ki Kane; Sgt Burns; Casey
- Synopsis
- A hillbilly drinks a solution of synthetic rubber thinking it's moonshine.
Indexer Notes
Originally credited "Rudy Palais ?", but Palais has a very marked line from the eye down the cheek in sideview and also a peculiar blot as nostril not connected to the wing of the nose. Not him here.
The art is identical to William's other credited stories in this feature, #40 and #41, and his signed "Eagle Evans" story in Police Comics #1. Most faces in nearly frontview with only one ear showing, and very large rounded jaw and chin are special.
The Great Blight
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Ludwig Hundt; Jimmy Christian; FBI Chief O'Brien; Army Lieutenant Gus Bockway
[The High Priest of Yuan Chi]
Yankee Eagle / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Yan Chi
- Synopsis
- Sharp and savage fighting against the invaders in the interior of old China.
[no title indexed]
The Jester / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Combining our efforts to get back at McGinty for everything he has done for us is an idea worthy of the Nobel Prize, my little chum!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Paul Gustavson; Oscar Oople (villain); Terwilliger J. Thump (villain)
- Synopsis
- Oscar and Terwilliger concoct a plan to get even with McGinty by drugging him and dumping him into an old maids' home.
Indexer Notes
Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Wow, Midnight!"]
Midnight -
1.
[The Murder of Jinny Baloney]
Midnight -
2.
["Why Count DiChange.. I thought you'd been drafted"]
Lady Luck -
3.
[The Song of Freedom]
Espionage Starring Black X -
4.
["Allight! Allright! I'm comin'!"]
Wun Cloo -
5.
["As this story opens we find him on the edge of the Colombian jungles of South American where horrible death strikes the unwary in this steaming land of tropical mystery."]
The Marksman -
6.
["This Alfred the Great was quite a king!"]
Archie O'Toole -
7.
Little Atmos Fear
Daffy -
8.
[Hurricane]
Rookie Rankin -
9.
The Great Blight
-
10.
[The High Priest of Yuan Chi]
Yankee Eagle -
11.
["Combining our efforts to get back at McGinty for everything he has done for us is an idea worthy of the Nobel Prize, my little chum!"]
The Jester
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Craig Delich
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Adam Spector
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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