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Smash Comics
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PublicationJune 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly
 
CoverA Super Thriller
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bozo the Robot (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset); Midnight [Dave Clark] (inset)
 
Comic StoryThe Beetle and the Tongs (9 pages)
SynopsisTo help out during a case involving feuds between rival clans in Chinatown, The Ray gives Bud a "ray ring" that emits a beam to blind people.
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Tom Lum (introduction); The Beetle (villain, introduction); Long Woo (villain, introduction, death)
 
Comic StoryThe Hijacked War Planes (4 pages)
ContentGenre: Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; Spinner; General Harrison
NotesHenkel s credited as writer and artist on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
 
Comic StoryBoomerang Bullets (1 page)
ContentGenre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo (detective)
 
Comic StoryThe Hundred Grand Hobo (5 pages)
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Mulligan; Limpy (introduction)
NotesAll Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
 
Comic StoryThe Ghost Town Bandits (6 pages)
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Tiny Todd; Warren; Rocky Hill]; Wolf Fang (villain, introduction)
NotesAlex Blum is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and his gloomy faces are not to be mistaken. Compare sample in Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Jerry Iger is credited as writer for Quality, and his pen name was S.M. Regi (Iger backwards). Writer revision from Jerry Iger to ? by Craig Delich 2013-12-26. The Who's Who indicates that S. M. Regi was a pen-name sometimes used by Jerry Iger, but also by others as a house by-line. It further indicates that Jerry Iger did not write this feature, but that Alex Blum, under this pen-name or by-line, did draw the strip.
 
ContentGenre: Humor; Children | Characters: Princess Itchovitch (intro); Archie; Ivan
 
Comic StoryEnter: Doc Wackey (5 pages)
SynopsisMidnight faces a foe who administers pills to people that regresses them to infancy, and he is even tricked to ingesting the drug as well. Gabby takes a chance with the antidote, which might kill the subject, but Dave is restored. Then, instead of turning the doctor in, Midnight gives Wackey a chance to reform, working with him and Gabby to better promote his genius.
ContentGenre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey (villain, introduction, reforms)
NotesDr. Wackey's first name was not revealed until Smash #32. He becomes Midnight's partner by the end of this story. A diagram of Midnight's Vacuum Gun is shown in this story.
 
Comic StoryThe Temple of Mars (6 pages)
ContentGenre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Sandra Sanders (introduction), Luigi Piscato (death); Madam Doom (villain)
NotesWilliams is credited on drawing this feature. Writer revision from Eisner to French by Craig Delich. Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43).
 
Comic StoryThe Blue Death (5 pages)
SynopsisCaglio and the Crystal Queen squabble over a mystical and lethal blue gem, which ends when the magician kiils the Queen and later succumbs to an explosion.
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; The Crystal Queen (villain, death); Caglio (villain, a magician, introduction, death)
NotesArt Gordon is a pen name for Art Pinajian, and he is credited as writer and artist on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
 
Comic StoryThe Human Bronzes (5 pages)
SynopsisThe Seal takes the law into his own hands to stop a murderous embalmer who is killing young women and posing them as life-like sculptures.
ContentGenre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Scarlet Seal [Barry Moore]; Captain Tim Moore; Bernice Fonda (introduction, death); Morta (villain, embalmer, introduction)
NotesThis feature was created by Manning de Villeneuve Lee, an accomplished fine artist and book illustrator who specialized in historical subjects. His by-line only appears on the first story in #16....after that, the strip was signed "Duane Byrd Monroe", a pen name for which no reference can be found. The Who's Who lists Campbell as writer and artist in 1940-41.......Lee (called Lee Manning in the Who's Who) wrote and drew the strip in 1940, and Henry Taylor drew the strip in 1941. I'll leave it to other writer/art experts that have access to all the stories (from Smash #2-24) to determine who did what stories story and artwise.
 
Text StoryBeeskrieg (2 pages)
FeaturingJimmy Christian
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian
Notesnext story "The Hunted Castle"
 
Comic StoryThe Capture of Princess Bardia (4 pages)
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Abdul; Hassan; Pooch (intro,a girl), Princess Bardia; Kibur (Intro, Dies)
NotesPowell is credited as writer and artist on this feature, and his pen name was Powell Roberts, all by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
 
Comic StoryThe Black Death (4 pages)
ContentGenre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter; Monahan; The Black Death (Intro; Holt); Foster (intro, dies), Worthington (intro, dies); Dr. Parker
NotesOriginally credited to Klaus Nordling, but this is Henkel, who is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Compare the grinning face with bright eyes with his signed Wings Wendell story.
 
Comic StoryKarl Zoff's Double (7 pages)
ContentGenre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo; Karl Zoff; Kurtz (Intro for both); Fox (intro)
NotesWayne Reid is a pen name for Brenner, and he is only credited as artist on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
 
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