Smash Comics
#80
(December 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
[no title indexed]
Midnight / comic story / 11 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here's fifty grand for your kingdom! Gimme the deed!
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- 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.
[no title indexed]
Citronella / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Light Breeze
- 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
Archie O'Toole / comic story / 1 page
- 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
Espionage Starring Black X / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- spy; adventure; war
- 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]
Lady Luck / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Pencils
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Inks
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- 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 [no title indexed]
Batch Batchelor / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bart Tumey ?
- Pencils
- Bart Tumey (signed)
- Inks
- Bart Tumey (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boo hoo! What a wonderful picture! >Sob!<
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Batch Batchelor; Bunny Bananas
- Synopsis
- Batch tries to make Bunny's movie fantasies come real.
The Open Window
Midnight / text story / 2 pages
- 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]
The Jester / comic story / 6 pages
- 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.
[no title indexed]
Daffy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Grrrr! I weel complain to the forestry service about thees, ma'amselle!
- 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
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Midnight lands on Big-Hearted Bosco!"]
Midnight -
1.
["Here's fifty grand for your kingdom! Gimme the deed!"]
Midnight -
2.
["Light Breeze"]
Citronella -
3.
Bee Culture
Archie O'Toole -
4.
Tsin
Espionage Starring Black X -
5.
[Blackjack Jordan]
Lady Luck -
6.
["Boo hoo! What a wonderful picture! >Sob!<"]
Batch Batchelor -
7.
The Open Window
Midnight -
8.
[Stoolie Pete]
The Jester -
9.
["Grrrr! I weel complain to the forestry service about thees, ma'amselle!"]
Daffy
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Katy Hayhurst
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Adam Spector
- Jim Van Dore
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