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Smash Comics #26 [Sep'41]-68pg-c2c -Henry Peters scans
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Comment:	Stories featuring The Ray, Midnight, Archie O'Toole (one pager), The Jester, The Invisible Hood, The Purple Trio, Black X, Wun Cloo the Defective Detective, Wildfire, Wings Wendall the Ace pilot, a 2-page text adventure, Rookie Rankin, and finally Bozo the Robot. Not many ads, but they are there. Scan itself was good overall. Thank you.

Issue: #26
Published: September 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Ed Cronin listed as editor in Police #2 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.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	A Great Action Story
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Bozo The Robot The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset) Espionage [Black X] (inset) Midnight [Dave Clark] (inset) Wings Wendall (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	Cyanide and Sabotage
Synopsis:	The Ray shows great concern for keeping young Bud out of harm's way after the lad witnesses a shooting. However, Bud places himself in danger afterwards when he seeks help from the Secret Service.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Ray [Happy Terrill] Bud Alan Hale (death)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Oil Well Murder
Synopsis:	Big City experiences a boom in oil, and many people invest their savings in building wells. Then the oil mysteriously begins to peter out, and it takes Midnight to discover that an unscrupulous racketeer has hired men to siphon off much of the oil output.
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Alice Taylor Doc Mortimer Wackey Gabby (a Talking Monkey) Hobbs, Chad, Butch J. A. Carlson Sgt. O'Toole

Comic Story (1 page)	Smoking Will Stunt Your Growth
Genre:	Humor Children
Characters:	Archie "King" O'Toole

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	Chuck decides to adopt the dog of one of his ex-foes.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Jester [Chuck Lane] Terry Mills Mr. Mills Inspector Mulligan Scrapper (Lane's Dog, Introduction)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	Lieutenant Jergens and Miss Saxon are attacked on a lonely road. Kent is driving past and helps ward off the assailants, but reasons that it was a set up. Changing to the Invisible Hood he tracks Jergens to the laboratory of Professor Saxon, who is developing a new type of sea craft. Jergens calls in his men and reveals himself to be a spy.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston] Zergon [aka Lieutenant Jergens] (villain) Professor Saxon, Miss Saxon

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	Warren makes his entrance into Society, and goes aboard a yacht for a party. Tiny and Rocky follow in a tub and make fun of him, but when Warren dives overboard to pursue a hold-up man, Rocky dives in to help. The trio foil a plot to hold a debutante for ransom.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	The Purple Trio [Warren Tiny Todd Rocky Hill] Angela Baker (Dave's Date) Curly (villain, Introduction) Un-named Members Of Curly's Gang (villains, Introduction For All)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Black X allows himself and Batu to be kidnapped and taken to the lair of arms dealer Franz Wenzel.
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Espionage [Black X] Batu Colonel Atwater Franz Wenzel Madame Doom (villain) Fritz (villain)

Comic Story (1 page)
Synopsis:	Wun Cloo finds a murdered man and pursues the killers' car, only to get snagged on the radio aeriel.
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Wun Cloo, The Defective Detective Killer (crook)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Midville Orphanage Murder
Synopsis:	Silas Raddo runs the Midville Orphanage and decides that if he could get rid of the kids he could pocket the endowment money. Therefore he plans a holiday excursion for the kids aboard a ship that he has rigged to go down in flames. Wildfire saves the kids and then dishes out deadly justice, throwing Raddo into a furnace and blowing up the small boat with his henchmen in it.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin] Silas Raddo (villain, Death)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Wings is assigned to investigate a series of sabotage incidents, thought to be masterminded by international spy Anton Schreck.
Genre:	Adventure Aviation
Characters:	Wings Wendall Anton Schreck, Karlo Pete Phillips Mary Phillips

Text Story (2 pages)	Jimmy Solves the Hex
Featuring:	Jimmy Christian
Synopsis:	Jimmy investigates sabotage at the Brandon mine.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Jimmy Christian Brandon Mike Minovitch

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Daily Star Shakedown
Synopsis:	Rookie investigates a racket to shake down the Star newspaper.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Rookie Rankin Rita Ma Rankin

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	The evil Topoff and his oriental henchman, Toto, are pursued by Hazzard and Bozo after Toto murders the district attorney using a mystical crucible that allows Topoff to appear and vanish at will.
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Hugh Hazzard Bozo The Robot Akim Topoff (villain, Death) Toto (villain)

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