Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1941-10-17
Editing: Ed Cronin (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #29 Edit Cover
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Midnight / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:adventure; superhero
Characters:
Midnight [David Clark]; Gabby; Doc Mortimer Wackey; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Bozo the Robot (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); Archie O'Toole (inset); The Purple Trio [Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill; Warren] (inset)

Issue Data

Indexer 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.

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The Ray / comic story / 9 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Amid the boom of big guns and the rumble of mule-drawn caissons, war games get underway at Fort Sherman, Texas...
Characters:
The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; The Chief; El Lobo (villain)
Synopsis:
German spies and Mexican bandits terrorize Fort Sherman, Texas.
Reprints (7)

Double Trouble
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Rookie Rankin / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:
Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Tim; Sniffer; Louie the Louse; Sgt. Burns
Synopsis:
Rankin runs into a crook who looks just like him.

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Archie O'Toole / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Another Crackpot Job-Seeker

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The Jester / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Disaster strikes in the subway system beneath the streets of New York!
Characters:
The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; mad scientist (villain)
Synopsis:
A mad scientist invents a machine that can make solids intangible, thus allowing someone to literally walk through walls.

[In Hollywood]
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Wildfire / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Robert Turner (signed)
Pencils:
Jim Mooney (signed)
Inks:
Jim Mooney (signed)
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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Wildfire; Martin Conway
Synopsis:
Wildfire battles arsonists at a movie studio.
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
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Invisible Justice / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:On a dark and mysterious island in the Caribbean, Kent Thurston, the Invisible Hood, stumbles upon a threatening sore spot in the side of democracy...
Characters:
The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Mamma Le Blanc; Wagner (villain); Lopez (villain)
Synopsis:
The Invisible Hood destroys an enemy submarine base in the Caribbean.

The Return of Chango!
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Midnight / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Jack Cole (signed)
Pencils:
Jack Cole (signed)
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Jack Cole (signed)
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  • Genre:adventure; superhero
Characters:
Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); J. J. Farsnby; Chango (villain)
Synopsis:
Chango returns, kidnapping Gabby, who then entices people into his fortune telling shop, hypnotizing them into giving up their valuables. Very powerful in nature, Chango even changes Midnight into a dog when the hero shows up to apprehend the evil magician.

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Wings Wendall / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Vern Henkel (signed as Vern)
Pencils:
Vern Henkel (signed as Vern)
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Vern Henkel (signed as Vern)
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  • Genre:aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The deadly rattle of machine guns fills the sky over a country war-ridden for five years...
Characters:
Wings Wendall; Bullet Plane; Agent 5; Miss Sanders
Synopsis:
Wings flies to China to rescue an American agent.

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Wun Cloo / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Calling Wun Cloo! Calling Wun Cloo!
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The Purple Trio / comic story / 5 pages

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Alex Blum (signed as S. M. Regi)
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Alex Blum (signed as S. M. Regi)
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  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The ex-vaudeville team plays its biggest act unrehearsed, below the Rio Grande...
Characters:
The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd]; Pedro Martinez (villain)

The Fiery Warning
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Jimmy Christian / text story / 2 pages

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  • Genre:adventure

[Lord Otterlake]
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Espionage Starring Black X / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:spy; adventure; war
Characters:
Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Colonel Atwater; Lord Otterlake; Madame Doom (villain); false Lord Otterlake (villain)
Synopsis:
Madame Doom tries to replace Lord Otterlake with one of her own men.

Indexer 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).

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Bozo the Robot / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:science fiction; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A news reporter races through the halls of the Senate Building in Washington --
Characters:
Bozo; Hugh Hazzard; Senator Janes; Emil Kurt
Synopsis:
When Senator Janes proposes the death penalty for spies, his life is in danger.
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Midnight
  2. ["Amid the boom of big guns and the rumble of mule-drawn caissons, war games get underway at Fort Sherman, Texas..."]
    The Ray
  3. Double Trouble
    Rookie Rankin
  4. ["Another Crackpot Job-Seeker"]
    Archie O'Toole
  5. ["Disaster strikes in the subway system beneath the streets of New York!"]
    The Jester
  6. [In Hollywood]
    Wildfire
  7. ["On a dark and mysterious island in the Caribbean, Kent Thurston, the Invisible Hood, stumbles upon a threatening sore spot in the side of democracy..."]
    Invisible Justice
  8. The Return of Chango!
    Midnight
  9. ["The deadly rattle of machine guns fills the sky over a country war-ridden for five years..."]
    Wings Wendall
  10. ["Calling Wun Cloo! Calling Wun Cloo!"]
    Wun Cloo
  11. ["The ex-vaudeville team plays its biggest act unrehearsed, below the Rio Grande..."]
    The Purple Trio
  12. The Fiery Warning
    Jimmy Christian
  13. [Lord Otterlake]
    Espionage Starring Black X
  14. ["A news reporter races through the halls of the Senate Building in Washington --"]
    Bozo the Robot
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