Digital Comic Museum - Smash Comics 031


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The Ray - Who is Monsieur Le Rat
Espionage - Staring Black X
Bozo the Robot
Wings Wendall
Invisible Justice
The Purple Trio
Midnight
The Jester
Rookie Rankin
Wildfire
Text story - The Monster
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Issue: #31
Published: February 1942, 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: Gill Fox was listed as editor in Police Comics (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #7 (February 1942). On Sale Date from the publication date and volume number from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Volume 37, Number 1. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 524533. The volume number is not in the original comic.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Wanted: Midnignt and His Assistants
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Doc Mortimer Wackey Gabby (a Monkey)

Comic Story (9 pages)	Who Is Monsieur Le Rat?
Synopsis:	In Syria, Happy and Bud meet Sue Saunders of a rival newspaper, and uncovers a French surveillance device disguised as the giant Monsieur le Rat. After Happy becomes a war correspondent, he couldn't afford to take Bud with him on his adventures. Astonishingly, Bud threatens to reveal the Ray's true identity to the world if Happy refuses to take him along... so Happy caves in.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Bud Sue Saunders (newspaper Woman) Monsieur Le Rat (villain, Surveillance Device)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Klotz and his spies occupy a secret floor in the Cronin Building.
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Colonel Atwater Batu Madame Doom (villain) Herr Klotz (villain)

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Wun Cloo

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Children
Characters:	Archie O'Toole

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	Hugh and Bozo track down two spies who shot a security guard in a defense plant. They kidnap an American scientist and force him to make a new explosive.
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Kurt Eric Alan Hall

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	The Red Menace has a deadly atomic bomb with which he plans to conquer the world.
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	The Red Menace Diane Westcott

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	Rogar wants to know where Prof Watson's lab is, so he kidnaps Jane in order to blackmail the professor.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Rogar Jane Watson Yar

Comic Story (5 pages)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Bull Karten (villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Transmutation Machine
Synopsis:	Doc's latest invention can transmute matter from one element to another.......just the thing Spade and Weasel are looking for.
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Doc Mortimer Wackey Gabby (a Monkey) Spade (villain) Weasel (villain)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	The Jester shuts down an illegal gambling joint masquerading as a charity.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Detective McGinty Caraso

Comic Story (6 pages)	Burly Monahan
Synopsis:	Burly Monahan is out on parole and gunning for Rookie.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Ma Rankin Burly Monahan Sgt. Burns Riley

Comic Story (5 pages)	Snow Valley
Synopsis:	Criminals try to kidnap young movie star Micky Keene and Carol Martin in Snow Valley to hold them for ransom, but Wildfire foils their plans.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Mickey Keene (movie Star) Kidnappers [Slippery Red Coles Others Unnamed] (villains)

Text Story (2 pages)	The Monster
Featuring:	Jimmy Christian
Credits:	Pencils: ? (illustrations) \| Inks: ? (illustrations) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Detective-mystery Fantasy

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