Smash Comics
#55
(October 1944)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- E. M. Arnold
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Martin DeMuth
[no title indexed]
Midnight / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Midnight and his pals agree! Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you!
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop; Hotdog; Gabby
Trouble?
Midnight / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (credited)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (credited)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop; Hotdog; Gabby; Professor Adoniram P. Twerk; Lobelia Lump; Killer Klaw (villain)
- Synopsis
- Professor Twerk wants to investigate Midnight's reactions to being kidnapped.
Indexer Notes
Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
[no title indexed]
Wun Cloo / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wun Cloo! I just seen a thug slug a man an' snatch his wallet!
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Wun Cloo; Alfonso P. Green
[Giltrox to Adopt Baby!]
Daffy / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Milt Stein (signed)
- Pencils
- Milt Stein (signed)
- Inks
- Milt Stein (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Characters
- Daffy Dill; Slug; Duffy; Mr. Giltrox; Mrs. Giltrox
- Synopsis
- Slug and Duffy have a great racket, Slug pretends to be a baby and when rich folks adopt him, he robs them blind.
- Keywords
- wrestling
The Vanguard for Vengeance
Rookie Rankin / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Rookie Rankin; Slug; Pinkie Pizetti
Indexer Notes
Originally credited "Witmer Williams ?", but does not match his other credited stories in this features. Compared with Leav's signed story in Power Comics #4, everything matches, face of the policeman, large hands, way of running with high lifted knees and some panels without backgrounds. Only the inking is different.
[no title indexed]
Archie O'Toole / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How's the kingly cash account...
- Genre
- humor; children
Invaders from Within!!!
The Marksman / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure; war; superhero
- Characters
- Marksman
Indexer Notes
Heads in 3/4 rearview with stretched necks and jawbones going back behind the ear, even in side view, is peculiarly Tirman. This can be found in his credited "Mike Gibbs Guerilla" story in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #88.
There Are No Neutral Countries Today
Espionage Starring Black X / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- spy; adventure; war
- Characters
- Black X; Batu; Miss Niloa
Indexer Notes
That this is Rico can be seen by the way he draws clouds, cumulus or long stratus ones.
[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
- This numbers racket is for pikers........
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Soupbone (villain); Gumbo (villain)
- Synopsis
- Lady Luck investigates and captures Soup Bone and his thugs, who are caught red....legged.....wearing silk stockings while attempting to hoard and re-sell them.
- Reprints
-
from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/6/1943 (June 6, 1943)
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Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Midnight and his pals agree! Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you!"]
Midnight -
1.
Trouble?
Midnight -
2.
["Wun Cloo! I just seen a thug slug a man an' snatch his wallet!"]
Wun Cloo -
3.
[Giltrox to Adopt Baby!]
Daffy -
4.
The Vanguard for Vengeance
Rookie Rankin -
5.
["How's the kingly cash account..."]
Archie O'Toole -
6.
Invaders from Within!!!
The Marksman -
7.
There Are No Neutral Countries Today
Espionage Starring Black X -
8.
A Skunk Never Forgets
-
9.
["This numbers racket is for pikers........"]
Lady Luck -
10.
Visitor's Day!
The Jester
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Adam Spector
- Jim Van Dore
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