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| Name | Smash Comics 37 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4. |
| Cover | Midnight Scores Again! / 1 page |
| Genre | Adventure; Superhero |
| Characters | Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Rookie Ranking (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset) |
| Pencils | Gill Fox ? |
| Inks | Gill Fox ? |
| Comic Story | Doc Wackey Goes Berserk! / Midnight (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The mysterious Professor returns for Doc Wackey's life, and uses Doc to create and test a super-speed formula. Wackey ends up with super speed, which he proceeds to dedicate to a life of crime! Midnight took the serum himself just to keep up with Doc, but it eventually wears off. |
| Genre | Adventure; Superhero |
| Characters | Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby; Skull Duggery; The Professor |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Tony DiPreta |
| Notes | Inker revision from Cole to DiPreta by Craig Delich 2013-6-16 per Jim Amash in the Quality Companion. |
| Comic Story | Rescuing Papa / Espionage Starring Black X (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A little girl asks Black X to rescue her father who is being held by the Nazis behind enemy lines. |
| Genre | Spy |
| Characters | Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Tinka Van Doorne (Peter's daughter); Peter Van Doorne |
| Script | Toni Blum ? Otto Binder ? |
| Pencils | Alex Kotzky (signed) |
| Inks | Alex Kotzky (signed) |
| Notes | Writer credits 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 | Archie O'Toole (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor; Children |
| Script | Bernard Dibble |
| Pencils | Bernard Dibble |
| Inks | Bernard Dibble |
| First Line | Sure, I know we need a queen... |
| Story | The Jester (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chuck Lane asks that the toughest juvenile offender be paroled into his custody. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Tough Tony; Dagger Joe (villain); Trigger (villain) |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| First Line | Hey... flatfoot... is th' sidewalk so small y' gotta get yourself tangled up in me feet?! |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
| Comic Story | Dean of Darkness / Wildfire (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Dean of Darkness tries to hold Carol Martin for ransom, not realizing she's Wildfire. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Dean of Darkness; Wildfire |
| Script | Robert Turner (signed) |
| Pencils | Jim Mooney (signed) |
| Inks | Jim Mooney (signed) |
| Notes | Last appearance of feature. Final Golden Age appearance of Wildfire (Carol Vance Martin). Appears next in The Golden Age (DC, 1993 Series) #4 ([May] 1994). |
| Comic Story | The Kidnapping of Peter Percy Gotgelt III / Bozo the Robot (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A trio of kidnappers find a little boy too much to handle. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Peter Percy Gotgelt III; Hugh Hazzard; Bozo; The Terrible Trio |
| Script | George Brenner |
| Pencils | George Brenner |
| Inks | George Brenner |
| Comic Story | The Frozen Lands of the Midnight Sun / The Ray (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Ray searches for a spy who has ferreted out plans for an allied invasion of Norway. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud |
| Pencils | Reed Crandall |
| Inks | Reed Crandall |
| Story | Rookie Rankin (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rankin breaks up a counterfeiting ring that makes phony rationing coupons. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Artie |
| Pencils | Art Peddy (signed) |
| Inks | Art Peddy (signed) |
| First Line | A g-man is loose among the crooks, and Ma Rankin is loose among the cops... |
| Story | Wun Cloo (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Wun Cloo (detective) |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| First Line | Wun Cloo think new Chinese restaurant cover up... |
| Story | The Purple Trio (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A disgruntled zoo employee lets the animals loose to get revenge on the zoo director. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd]; Peters (villain) |
| Pencils | Alex Blum (signed) |
| Inks | Alex Blum (signed) |
| First Line | The boys are off for a day at the zoo... |
| Notes | Last appearance. |
| Text Story | Spy (2 pages) |
| Feature | Jimmy Christian |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Comic Story | The Undersea Wolf / Wings Wendall (6 pages) |
| Genre | Aviation |
| Characters | Wings Wendall; Captain Kroll; Spinner Benson |
| Script | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Pencils | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Inks | Vern Henkel |
| Notes | last appearance |
| Comic Story | The Amazing Adventures of the Three Shadows / The Marksman (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A Czech, an Austrian and a Pole escape from a concentration camp and join the underground as the Three Shadows, through whom the Marksman smuggles Nazi war plans to the British. |
| Genre | Adventure; War |
| Characters | The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; The Three Shadows (introduction for all); Schtuper (villain) |
| Pencils | Alex Koda (signed) |
| Inks | Alex Koda (signed) |
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