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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: Ed Cronin
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was On-Going 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)
Featuring:	Bozo the Robot
Credits:	Pencils: Gill Fox \| Inks: Gill Fox
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
Featuring:	The Ray
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 out the help from the Secret Service.
Credits:	Pencils: Reed Crandall \| Inks: Reed Crandall
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Ray [Happy Terrill] Bud Alan Hale (death)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Oil Well Murder
Featuring:	Midnight
Credits:	Script: Jack Cole (signed) \| Pencils: Jack Cole (signed) \| Inks: Jack Cole (signed) \| Letters: Jack Cole
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Doc Mortimer Wackey Gabby Hobbs, Chad, Butch J. A. Carlson

Comic Story (1 page)	Smoking Will Stunt Your Growth
Featuring:	Archie O'Toole
Credits:	Script: John Devlin \| Pencils: John Devlin \| Inks: John Devlin
Genre:	Humor Children

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

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Invisible Justice
Credits:	Script: Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed) \| Pencils: Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed) \| Inks: Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston] Zergon Professor Saxon, Miss Saxon

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	The Purple Trio
Credits:	Pencils: Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed) \| Inks: Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)
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)
Featuring:	Espionage Starring Black X
Credits:	Script: Lane French [as Erwin] (signed) \| Pencils: Witmer Williams \| Inks: Witmer Williams
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Espionage [Black X] Batu Colonel Atwater Franz Wenzel Madam Doom (villain) Fritz (villain)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Wun Cloo
Credits:	Pencils: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed) \| Inks: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed) \| Letters: Jack Cole
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Midville Orphanage Murder
Featuring:	Wildfire
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.
Credits:	Script: Robert Turner (signed) \| Pencils: Jim Mooney (signed) \| Inks: Jim Mooney (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin] Silas Raddo (villain, Death)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Wings Wendall
Credits:	Script: Vernon Henkel (signed) \| Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed) \| Inks: Vernon Henkel (signed)
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Wings Wendall Anton Schreck, Karlo Pete Phillips Mary Phillips

Text Story (2 pages)	Jimmy Solves the Hex
Featuring:	Jimmy Christian
Credits:	Script: Robert M. Hyatt \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Jimmy Christian

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Daily Star Shakedown
Featuring:	Rookie Rankin
Credits:	Pencils: Arthur Peddy [as Kenneth Julian] \| Inks: Arthur Peddy
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Rookie Rankin Rita Ma Rankin

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Bozo the Robot
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.
Credits:	Script: George Brenner ? \| Pencils: George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] (signed) \| Inks: George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] (signed)
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Hugh Hazzard Bozo The Robot Akim Topoff (villain, Death) Toto (villain)

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