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| Date | | Number: 28 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Smash Comics 28 | 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, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Adventure; Superhero |
| Characters | Midnight [Dave Clark]; Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); Doc Mortimer Wackey (inset); Gabby (a monkey) (inset) |
| Pencils | Gill Fox |
| Inks | Gill Fox |
| Comic Story | Zimmerman's Spy Ring / The Ray (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Ray and Bud break up a Mexican spy ring. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Chita; Zimmerman (villain); Zimmerman's spy ring (villains) |
| Pencils | Reed Crandall (signed) |
| Inks | Reed Crandall (signed) |
| First Line | Happy Terrill and his friend Bud are heading home... |
| Comic Story | The Liquifying Ray / Midnight (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Midnight and Gabby face a gang of crooks with an amazing ray weapon that can melt anything in Big City. |
| Genre | Adventure; Superhero |
| Characters | Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a talking monkey) |
| Script | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Letters | Jack Cole (signed) |
| First Line | It is late evening in Big City... |
| Comic Story | The Stenographer's Job / Archie O'Toole (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor; Children |
| Script | John Devlin |
| Pencils | John Devlin |
| Inks | John Devlin |
| First Line | Hey, guard! |
| Comic Story | Tiny Gano's Insurance Racket / The Jester (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Jester chases a pair of crooks back to the lair of criminal mastermind Tiny Gano and puts them all to rout. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Tiny Gano (introduction); Shorty (crook); Muggins (crook) |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| First Line | Rookie, Chuck Lane pounds the pavement... |
| Story | Invisible Justice (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | An invisible airplane based in a dirigible is used to kidnap the new Defense Chief, Roy Mason. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Kent Thurston; unnamed Nazis; Roy Mason |
| Script | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| Pencils | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| Inks | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| First Line | It came from th' clouds -- !! |
| Story | The Purple Trio (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Walking through the park, Tiny spots his two pals sitting on a bridge with another midget between them. His anger subsides when it is revealed that this a dummy for use in the act. But none of them know there is a stolen necklace hidden in the wooden head. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | The Purple Trio [Warren; Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill]; Madame Zagonga (villain) |
| Pencils | Alex Blum (signed) |
| Inks | Alex Blum (signed) |
| First Line | It is a lovely day... |
| Comic Story | The Rescue of Madame Doom / Espionage Starring Black X (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Black X tracks down stolen navy charts as two gangs of spies vie for their possession. |
| Genre | Spy |
| Characters | Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Colonel Atwater; Captain Vidman (introduction); Madame Doom (villain) |
| Script | Dick French (signed) |
| Pencils | Witmer Williams |
| Inks | Witmer Williams |
| First Line | Black X is on his way to the State Department code room. |
| Notes | Williams is credited on drawing this feature. 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. Dick French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43). |
| Story | Wun Cloo (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Wun CLoo ignores crimes being committed because it is his day off. |
| Genre | Humor; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Wun Cloo, the Defective Detective |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Letters | Jack Cole (signed) |
| First Line | Well well, my old pal, Wun Cloo! |
| Comic Story | The Modern Train Robbers / Wildfire (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wildire takes on a gang of train robbers, after a gold shipment that's riding on the same train as she and her parents. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Wildfire; Mutt Morgan and his gang; Mr and Mrs Martin |
| Script | Robert Turner (signed) |
| Pencils | Jim Mooney (signed) |
| Inks | Jim Mooney (signed) |
| First Line | Mutt Morgan, most famous gangster of the Prohibition Era... |
| Story | Wings Wendall (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A parachutist tries to assassinate the president. |
| Genre | Aviation |
| Characters | Wings Wendall; Captain Kurt (villain, introduction, dies); Nita; Dr. Goth; Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Script | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Pencils | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Inks | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| First Line | A plane drones high above Washington with no lights... |
| Text Story | The City of Death (1.5 pages) |
| Feature | Jimmy Christian |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Jimmy Christian; Sir John Elton-Blake |
| Script | Robert Hyatt ? |
| First Line | The yellow pall of death still clung over that quiet valley. |
| Comic Story | The Squid Strikes / Rookie Rankin (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rookie's mother sends him out to get a mackeral for supper, and he discovers a protection racket in operation on the docks. Knocked out and taken aboard the crooks' boat, fish merchant Gus brings a codfish as a present to The Squid and praises Rookie's culinary skill. Rookie cuts open the fish and finds a hidden gun, and with the aid of Gus and a lot of fresh fish, brings the gang to justice. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; The Squid (Intro; not the Spirit villain); Gus Poppalopalous |
| Pencils | Art Peddy (signed) |
| Inks | Art Peddy (signed) |
| First Line | Even when off duty... |
| Story | Bozo the Robot (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | "Slip" Talone thinks he has captured Bozo, but the robot's steel hard body and flying powers make short work of the gang. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; "Slip" Talone (introduction) |
| Script | George Brenner (signed) ? |
| Pencils | George Brenner (signed) |
| Inks | George Brenner (signed) |
| First Line | The news is read by "Slip" Talone, gangland's big boss... |
| 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 | |
