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| Date | | Number: 56 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Smash Comics 56 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 60 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Cover | The Laughing Killer! / 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey) |
| Comic Story | The Laughing Killer / Midnight (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Midnight tracks a killer who can't stop laughing. |
| Genre | Adventure; Superhero |
| Characters | Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop; Hotdog; Laughing Killer (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Comic Story | Black X Marks the Spot / Espionage Starring Black X (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The liberation of Taoten, in China. While Black X helps to organize the Chinese underground, Batu is captured by the Japanese. |
| Genre | Spy |
| Characters | Black X; Batu |
| Pencils | Bill Quackenbush (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Quackenbush (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Boogie Woogie Dirge / Rookie Rankin (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A drug addict musician is mysteriously killed backstage. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Rookie Rankin; Mel Marvel; Gus Getti; Tony Getti |
| Pencils | Mort Leav |
| Notes | Originally credited "Witmer Williams ?", but he has quite different faces with very bushy eyebrows and small mouth, narrow undistinct eyes and larger, rounded jaw. Looks more like Mort Leav's signed story in Power Comics #4, with movements, faces and large hands, but his many white panels without backgrounds are missing. |
| Story | Lady Luck (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Count gets mixed up with a fight promoter who's hoping to make a quick buck on a fixed match. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count DiChange |
| Script | Klaus Nordling (signed) |
| Pencils | Klaus Nordling (signed) |
| Inks | Klaus Nordling (signed) |
| First Line | Murder in the ring |
| Story | Archie O'Toole (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor; Children |
| Pencils | Bernard Dibble |
| Inks | Bernard Dibble |
| First Line | The trouble with you, sire, is -- |
| Story | The Marksman (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Marksman has to battle a dinosaur in South America in order to uncover a Japanese poison gas plant. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz); Anna; Juan; Captain Hinushi (villain); Captain Kioto (villain) |
| Pencils | Irving Tirman |
| Inks | Irving Tirman |
| First Line | Out of the snow-capped forest it came, this roaring monster from earth's dead past! |
| Notes | This is the same artist as in #54. |
| Comic Story | Mountains of the Moon (2 pages) |
| Feature | Jimmy Christian |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Comic Story | Up with the U.S.A.! / Wun Cloo (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor; Detective-mystery |
| Pencils | Jack Cole ? |
| Inks | Jack Cole ? |
| Story | Daffy (7 pages) |
| Genre | Humor; Sports |
| Characters | Daffy Dill; Deke Parsons; Cobina Vanderast; Percy Harlow |
| Pencils | Milt Stein (signed) |
| Inks | Milt Stein (signed) |
| First Line | The Vanderast phantom |
| Story | The Jester (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | McGinty tries to arrange a double-date for Chuck, but someone poisoned the pie and the Jester has to sort through the clues. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Celeste (French maid); Bridget; Mister Palmer; Dennis Harpe; Myrna; Max Lubold |
| Pencils | Mort Leav |
| First Line | Patrolman Lane and Detective McGinty have just come off duty... |
| Notes | Large hands and a great variety of faces and also some panels with empty white backgrounds point to Leav. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
