Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942-08-14
Editing: Gill Fox (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #36 Edit Cover
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Midnight / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:adventure; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Another Midnight thriller
Characters:
Midnight [Dave Clark]; Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset)

Issue Data

  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: E. M. Arnold
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly
  • Printer: ?

Indexer Notes

The 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.

The Death of Midnight!!
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Midnight / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
Jack Cole (signed)
Pencils:
Jack Cole (signed)
Inks:
Jack Cole (signed)
Colors:
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Letters:
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  • Genre:adventure; superhero
Characters:
Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); The Professor; Cyclops Ceylon (villain); Satan (villain); Mrs. Satan (villain)
Synopsis:
Midnight 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").
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Indexer Notes

Storyline 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).

[The Vengeance]
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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 (Espionage's aide); The Vengeance (villain, death); The Japanese (villains)
Synopsis:
Black X and Batu head for the orient in search of the elusive "V Man" and are nearly destroyed by Vengeance.
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Indexer Notes

Writer 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).

[Exact Double]
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Archie O'Toole / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Archie O'Toole
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[Micky Kane]
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Wildfire / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Jim Mooney (signed)
Inks:
Jim Mooney (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin]; Micky Kane; Tom Kane (Micky's brother); group of thugs (villains)
Synopsis:
Wildfire 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!
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[no title indexed]
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The Jester / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:14... 15... hang it!
Characters:
The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Johnson (bank teller); Professor (villain); Professor's gang (villains)
Synopsis:
The Professor creates a spray that reduces a person's size, so the Jester must face a gang of three inch tall bank robbers.
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Indexer Notes

Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

[The Scrap Metal HiJackers]
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Bozo the Robot / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:science fiction; superhero
Characters:
Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Henry Vaun

[Hammer Hand]
(Table of Contents: 7)

The Ray / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Terrill's newspaper editor; Hammer Hand (villain)
Synopsis:
Happy 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.
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[The Whiner]
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Rookie Rankin / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Art Peddy (signed)
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Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:
Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; The Whiner

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Wun Cloo / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Come quick, Wun Cloo!

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 10)

The Purple Trio / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Alex Blum (signed as S. M. Regi)
Inks:
Alex Blum (signed as S. M. Regi)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A tall countess agrees to be Tiny's bride!
Characters:
The Purple Trio [Warren; Rocky Hill; Tiny Todd]

The Wall of Invisible Fire
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Jimmy Christian / text story / 2 pages

Script:
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure

[Diane's Revenge]
(Table of Contents: 12)

Wings Wendall / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Vern Henkel (signed)
Pencils:
Vern Henkel (signed)
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Letters:
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  • Genre:aviation
Characters:
Wings Wendall; Westcott (dies); Diane Westcott
Synopsis:
After Diane's father is killed, she and Wings fly a suicide mission over Germany to try and kill Hitler.

[no title indexed]
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The Marksman / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:adventure; war; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Good! Another Nazi will die!!
Characters:
The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Wakovsky (Polish inventor); Adolf Hitler (villain)
Synopsis:
Major 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.
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Another Midnight thriller"]
    Midnight
  2. The Death of Midnight!!
    Midnight
  3. [The Vengeance]
    Espionage Starring Black X
  4. [Exact Double]
    Archie O'Toole
  5. [Micky Kane]
    Wildfire
  6. ["14... 15... hang it!"]
    The Jester
  7. [The Scrap Metal HiJackers]
    Bozo the Robot
  8. [Hammer Hand]
    The Ray
  9. [The Whiner]
    Rookie Rankin
  10. ["Come quick, Wun Cloo!"]
    Wun Cloo
  11. ["A tall countess agrees to be Tiny's bride!"]
    The Purple Trio
  12. The Wall of Invisible Fire
    Jimmy Christian
  13. [Diane's Revenge]
    Wings Wendall
  14. ["Good! Another Nazi will die!!"]
    The Marksman
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