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| Date | | Number: 30 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Smash Comics 30 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Editor from Statement of ownership. On Sale Date from the publication date and volume number from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Volume 37, Number 1. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 524532. Volume number not in the original comic. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure; Superhero |
| Characters | Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Rookie Rankin (inset); Bozo the Robot (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset) |
| Pencils | Gill Fox |
| Inks | Gill Fox |
| Comic Story | The Von Ribboncounter Affair / The Ray (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Von Ribboncounter tries to sabotage the Army's test of a new dive bomber. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Von Ribboncounter (villain); Adolf (villain) |
| Pencils | Lou Fine (signed) |
| Inks | Lou Fine (signed) |
| Notes | In his article in Alter Ego #127 (August 2014), Ken Quattro states that, by this issue of Smash, Fine was collaborating with new Quality artist Bob Fujitani. He doesn't state that Fujitani worked with Fine on this story, but art spotters might want to check this out. |
| Story | Rookie Rankin (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rookie runs into the Liguori mob while trying to sell tickets to a benefit Police/Firefighters ballgame. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Rookie Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Liguori Gang (villains); Strega Liguori |
| Pencils | Art Peddy (signed) |
| Inks | Art Peddy (signed) |
| First Line | One of the city's finest, Rookie Rankin's special claim to fame is... |
| Comic Story | The Yes Woman / Archie O'Toole (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor; Children |
| Characters | Archie O'Toole |
| Script | John Devlin |
| Pencils | John Devlin |
| Inks | John Devlin |
| Story | The Jester (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Gangster Speed Malone left an old house to his daughter, but his lawyer won't tell her where it is. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Miss Malone; Tony; Laporta; Lefty (villain) |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson |
| First Line | McGinty!! Speed Malone the racketeer who was taken for a ride yesterday, has a daughter! [sic] |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
| Comic Story | Big Tom's Oil Saboteurs / Wildfire (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wildfire, while visiting oil fields in the southwest, stumbles upon a murder, but the man behind the killing, Big Tom, thinks his liquid air gun will stop Wildfire. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin]; Big Tom (villain); Old Ben (death) |
| Script | Robert Turner (signed) |
| Pencils | Jim Mooney (signed) |
| Inks | Jim Mooney (signed) |
| Notes | Modified synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 4-13-09. |
| Story | Invisible Justice (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kent Thurston discovers his invisible hood has been stolen by the White Wizard, a scientist who cracks its secret and makes duplicates for a gang of criminals who menace the city of Metropolis and whom the populace thought were actually aliens. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; The White Wizard (villain, scientist) |
| Script | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| Pencils | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| Inks | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| First Line | What would you do if suddenly the earth found itself confronted by invisible raiders and you were the only person who could stop them... |
| Notes | This is the 2nd appearance of the White Wizard, the only villain the Hood faced more than once. |
| Comic Story | The Case of the Yehudi Murder / Midnight (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Professor Craft uses plastic surgery to create doubles of public officials and then kills the real ones. |
| Genre | Adventure; Superhero |
| Characters | Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Mr. Hobbs; Sherrif Stanbaugh; Mayor Smith; Police Chief O'Connor; District Attorney Kane; Professor Craft (villain) |
| Script | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Legions of the Red Menace / Wings Wendall (6 pages) |
| Genre | Aviation |
| Characters | Wings Wendall; Red Menace (villain) |
| Script | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Pencils | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Inks | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Story | Wun Cloo (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Wun Cloo |
| Script | Jack Cole ? |
| Pencils | Jack Cole ? |
| Inks | Jack Cole ? |
| First Line | Lock your windows...close your doors...Moiderous Mike is on the loose... |
| Story | The Purple Trio (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The boys take jobs in a Florida hotel and expose a counterfeit racket. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Tiny Todd; Warren] |
| Pencils | Alex Blum (signed) |
| Inks | Alex Blum (signed) |
| First Line | A bus tears down a palm-fringed Florida highway... |
| Notes | Alex 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. |
| Text Story | King of the Zombies (1.75 pages) |
| Feature | Jimmy Christian |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Jimmy Christian |
| Script | Robert Hyatt (signed) |
| Statement of Ownership | Statement of Ownership |
| Letters | typeset |
| Script | Busy Arnold |
| Notes | Edward Cronin, editor Publisher Everett M. Arnold (no corporation) 322 Main St., Stamford, CT. |
| Story | Espionage Starring Black X (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Black X battles U-boats off the coast of California. |
| Genre | Spy |
| Characters | Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Colonel Atwater; Mito; Pepe |
| Script | Dick French (signed) ? |
| Pencils | Witmer Williams |
| Inks | Witmer Williams |
| First Line | The fearless secret agent, Black X, with his trusty Hindu servant... |
| Notes | 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). |
| Story | Bozo the Robot (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hugh tries to stop a defense plant hold-up but ends up buried alive in a cave. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot |
| Script | George Brenner ? |
| Pencils | George Brenner (signed) |
| Inks | George Brenner (signed) |
| First Line | Fate brings Hugh Hazzard, owner of the famous iron man to the scene of a defense plant hold-up. [sic] |
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