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Smash Comics
Date | Number: 36 | Lang: English (en)
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Quality comics like this one had an extremely high level of artwork -- and it was rather consistent in "house" style, despite multiple artists. An added bonus: Wildfire, possibly one of the sexiest female superheroes of the Golden Age.
  
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NameSmash Comics 36 | Published
PublicationPrice: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: Monthly
NotesThe 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.
 
Cover1 page
GenreAdventure; Superhero
CharactersMidnight [Dave Clark]; Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset)
PencilsReed Crandall
InksReed Crandall
First LineAnother Midnight thriller
 
Comic StoryThe Death of Midnight!! / Midnight (9 pages)
SynopsisMidnight tumbles to his death from a battle with Cyclops Ceylon, is declined entrance to heaven, and asks to be sent to Hell so he can fight the Devil himself, only to find out the Mrs. is in charge, who subjects him to unspeakable tortures. Meanwhile, a strange Professor bargains with Doc Wackey, and offers to exchange his life for Midnight's. The gambit works, and Midnight leaves Hell just as he'd convinced its inmates to revolt (and prevent further Nazi evils in the "waking world").
GenreAdventure; Superhero
CharactersMidnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); The Professor; Cyclops Ceylon (villain); Satan (villain); Mrs. Satan (villain)
Script (signed)
PencilsJack Cole (signed)
InksJack Cole (signed)
NotesStoryline continued in the next issue.

On the splash page, Gabby announced that the feature was now 9 pages in length (the 9 page stories actually begin with issue #35).
 
Comic StoryThe Vengeance / Espionage Starring Black X (6 pages)
SynopsisBlack X and Batu head for the orient in search of the elusive "V Man" and are nearly destroyed by Vengeance.
GenreSpy
CharactersEspionage [Black X]; Batu (Espionage's aide); The Vengeance (villain, death); The Japanese (villains)
Script ? ?
PencilsAlex Kotzky (signed)
InksAlex Kotzky (signed)
NotesWriter 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).
 
Comic StoryExact Double / Archie O'Toole (1 page)
GenreHumor; Children
CharactersArchie O'Toole
Script
PencilsBernard Dibble
InksBernard Dibble
 
Comic StoryMicky Kane / Wildfire (5 pages)
SynopsisWildfire gives Micky Kane a special flame so that he can call her whenever he's in trouble, and he soon discovers a need for it when a group of hoods decides to pilfer an invention of Tom Kane.....a special antidote for poison gas!
GenreSuperhero
CharactersWildfire [Carol Vance Martin]; Micky Kane; Tom Kane (Micky's brother); group of thugs (villains)
Script (signed)
PencilsJim Mooney (signed)
InksJim Mooney (signed)
 
StoryThe Jester (5 pages)
SynopsisThe Professor creates a spray that reduces a person's size, so the Jester must face a gang of three inch tall bank robbers.
GenreSuperhero
CharactersThe Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Johnson (bank teller); Professor (villain); Professor's gang (villains)
Script (signed)
PencilsPaul Gustavson (signed)
InksPaul Gustavson (signed)
LettersPaul Gustavson
First Line14... 15... hang it!
NotesGustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
 
Comic StoryThe Scrap Metal HiJackers / Bozo the Robot (5 pages)
GenreScience Fiction
CharactersHugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Henry Vaun
Script
PencilsGeorge Brenner
InksGeorge Brenner
 
Comic StoryHammer Hand / The Ray (6 pages)
SynopsisHappy Terrill, framed for bank robbery by Hammer Hand, a criminal with a mallet for a hand, is arrested for the crime and loses his job as reporter.
GenreSuperhero
CharactersThe Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Terrill's newspaper editor; Hammer Hand (villain)
PencilsReed Crandall
InksReed Crandall
 
Comic StoryThe Whiner / Rookie Rankin (6 pages)
GenreDetective-mystery
CharactersRookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; The Whiner
PencilsArt Peddy (signed)
InksArt Peddy
 
StoryWun Cloo (1 page)
GenreHumor; Detective-mystery
Script
PencilsJack Cole
InksJack Cole
First LineCome quick, Wun Cloo!
 
StoryThe Purple Trio (5 pages)
GenreAdventure
CharactersThe Purple Trio [Warren; Rocky Hill; Tiny Todd]
PencilsAlex Blum (signed)
InksAlex Blum (signed)
First LineA tall countess agrees to be Tiny's bride!
 
Text StoryThe Wall of Invisible Fire (2 pages)
FeatureJimmy Christian
Letterstypeset
GenreAdventure
Script ?
 
Comic StoryDiane's Revenge / Wings Wendall (6 pages)
SynopsisAfter Diane's father is killed, she and Wings fly a suicide mission over Germany to try and kill Hitler.
GenreAviation
CharactersWings Wendall; Westcott (dies); Diane Westcott
Script (signed)
PencilsVern Henkel (signed)
InksVern Henkel
 
StoryThe Marksman (7 pages)
SynopsisMajor Hurtz claims to have killed the Marksman as a way of getting invited to Berlin. There, he frees a Polish inventor and smuggles him to Africa in a bomb casing. After the Marksman has freed the Pole, Hitler himself reprimands Major Hurtz.
GenreAdventure; War
CharactersThe Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Wakovsky (Polish inventor); Adolf Hitler (villain)
Script
PencilsAlex Koda
InksAlex Koda
First LineGood! Another Nazi will die!!
 
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