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| The art on Ray's story reminds me of Bob Fujitani. And I'm pretty sure that's him. The faces, the eyes, and especially the rat's teeth all say Bob Fuji to me. The GCD says it's Lou Fine but I wouldn't say it's Fine's art. |
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| Publication | February 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Wanted: Midnignt and His Assistants |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey) |
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| Comic Story | Who Is Monsieur Le Rat? (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | In Syria, Happy and Bud meet Sue Saunders of a rival newspaper, and uncovers a French surveillance device disguised as the giant Monsieur le Rat.
After Happy becomes a war correspondent, he couldn't afford to take Bud with him on his adventures. Astonishingly, Bud threatens to reveal the Ray's true identity to the world if Happy refuses to take him along... so Happy caves in. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Bud; Sue Saunders (newspaper woman); Monsieur Le Rat (villain, surveillance device) |
| Notes | The art must be Fujitani: the faces, the eyes, the bodies and the way cloth twirls all indicate it must be him instead of Lou Fine (as was previously credited). Some panels, though, might be partially Lou Fine's work, especially the very detailed ones (e.g. the camel's face). This is very likely because in his article in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows, 1999 series) #127 (August 2014), Ken Quattro states that, by issue #30 of Smash, Fine was collaborating with new Quality artist Bob Fujitani. |
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| Synopsis | Klotz and his spies occupy a secret floor in the Cronin Building. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Colonel Atwater; Batu; Madame Doom (villain); Herr Klotz (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Archie O'Toole |
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| Synopsis | Hugh and Bozo track down two spies who shot a security guard in a defense plant. They kidnap an American scientist and force him to make a new explosive. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Kurt; Eric; Alan Hall |
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| Synopsis | The Red Menace has a deadly atomic bomb with which he plans to conquer the world. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: The Red Menace; Diane Westcott |
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| Synopsis | Rogar wants to know where Prof Watson's lab is, so he kidnaps Jane in order to blackmail the professor. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Rogar; Jane Watson; Yar |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Bull Karten (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Transmutation Machine (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doc's latest invention can transmute matter from one element to another.......just the thing Spade and Weasel are looking for. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Spade (villain); Weasel (villain) |
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| Synopsis | The Jester shuts down an illegal gambling joint masquerading as a charity. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Detective McGinty; Caraso |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | Burly Monahan (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Burly Monahan is out on parole and gunning for Rookie. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Ma Rankin; Burly Monahan; Sgt. Burns; Riley |
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| Comic Story | Snow Valley (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Criminals try to kidnap young movie star Micky Keene and Carol Martin in Snow Valley to hold them for ransom, but Wildfire foils their plans. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mickey Keene (movie star); kidnappers [Slippery; Red Coles; others unnamed] (villains) |
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| Text Story | The Monster (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Fantasy |
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