Digital Comic Museum - Smash Comics 036


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Smash Comics 036 (Quality 1942-10) (c2c) (Bastard Scan+DaveH re-edit).cbz

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Re-edit by Dave H.

Special thanks to Tronvillian for finding the raw scan.

Issue: #36
Published: October 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: 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.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Espionage [Black X] (inset) The Marksman [Baron Povalski, Aka Major Hurtz] (inset) Rookie Rankin (inset) The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	The Death of Midnight!!
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").
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Doc Mortimer Wackey Gabby (a Monkey) The Professor Cyclops Ceylon (villain) Satan (villain) Mrs. Satan (villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Vengeance
Synopsis:	Black X and Batu head for the orient in search of the elusive "V Man" and are nearly destroyed by Vengeance.
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Espionage [Black X] Batu (Espionage's Aide) The Vengeance (villain, Death) The Japanese (villains)

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

Comic Story (5 pages)	Micky Kane
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!
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin] Micky Kane Tom Kane (Micky's Brother) Group Of Thugs (villains)

Comic Story (5 pages)
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.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Jester [Chuck Lane] Detective Hustace McGinty Johnson (bank Teller) Professor (villain) Professor's Gang (villains)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Scrap Metal HiJackers
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Hugh Hazzard Bozo The Robot Henry Vaun

Comic Story (6 pages)	Hammer Hand
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.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Ray [Happy Terrill] Bud Terrill's Newspaper Editor Hammer Hand (villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Whiner
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Rookie Rankin Ma Rankin Sgt. Burns The Whiner

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

Comic Story (5 pages)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	The Purple Trio [Warren Rocky Hill Tiny Todd]

Text Story (2 pages)	The Wall of Invisible Fire
Featuring:	Jimmy Christian
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure

Comic Story (6 pages)	Diane's Revenge
Synopsis:	After Diane's father is killed, she and Wings fly a suicide mission over Germany to try and kill Hitler.
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Wings Wendall Westcott (dies) Diane Westcott

Comic Story (7 pages)
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.
Genre:	Adventure War
Characters:	The Marksman [Baron Povalski, Aka Major Hurtz] Vorka Wakovsky (Polish Inventor) Adolf Hitler (villain)

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