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| Publication | January 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | 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) |
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| Comic Story | The Von Ribboncounter Affair (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Von Ribboncounter tries to sabotage the Army's test of a new dive bomber. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Von Ribboncounter (villain); Adolf (villain) |
| 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. |
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| Synopsis | Rookie runs into the Liguori mob while trying to sell tickets to a benefit Police/Firefighters ballgame. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Liguori Gang (villains); Strega Liguori |
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| Comic Story | The Yes Woman (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Archie O'Toole |
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| Synopsis | Gangster Speed Malone left an old house to his daughter, but his lawyer won't tell her where it is. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Miss Malone; Tony; Laporta; Lefty (villain) |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | Big Tom's Oil Saboteurs (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. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin]; Big Tom (villain); Old Ben (death) |
| Notes | Modified synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 4-13-09. |
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| 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. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; The White Wizard (villain, scientist) |
| Notes | This is the 2nd appearance of the White Wizard, the only villain the Hood faced more than once. |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Yehudi Murder (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Professor Craft uses plastic surgery to create doubles of public officials and then kills the real ones. |
| Content | 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) |
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| Comic Story | The Legions of the Red Menace (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; Red Menace (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo |
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| Synopsis | The boys take jobs in a Florida hotel and expose a counterfeit racket. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Tiny Todd; Warren] |
| 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. |
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| Text Story | King of the Zombies (1.75 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian |
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| Statement of Ownership | Statement of Ownership |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Edward Cronin, editor
Publisher Everett M. Arnold (no corporation)
322 Main St., Stamford, CT. |
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| Synopsis | Black X battles U-boats off the coast of California. |
| Credits | Script: Lane French? [as Erwin] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Colonel Atwater; Mito; Pepe |
| 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). |
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| Synopsis | Hugh tries to stop a defense plant hold-up but ends up buried alive in a cave. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot |
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