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Username:	Bob Stump
Comment:	I used to have this issue! You can't go wrong with Smash! Lotsa costumed heroes & Wildfire & even Bozo the Robot. Fun comic. Another fun Jack Cole Midnight story & the Ray by Lou Fine and/or Reed Crandall. Interesting that Russia was played up as ally of US in Ray. Bob

Issue: #35
Published: September 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Gill Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was On-Going Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	We Give You Midnight!
Featuring:	Midnight
Credits:	Pencils: Gill Fox \| Inks: Gill Fox
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset) Espionage [Black X] (inset) Rookie Rankin (inset) The Marksman [Baron Povalski, Aka Major Hurtz] (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	The Jumping Bean Abduction
Featuring:	Midnight
Synopsis:	An old "friend" of Doc Wackey is causing trouble afflicting a town with a formula that causes its people to bounce like rubber. Meanwhile, Porgie kidnaps millionaire ex-circus star Waldo Whiz to finance his experiments, one of which is a trip to a planet made of solid gold, while another potion turns Wackey back into a criminal.
Credits:	Script: Jack Cole (signed) \| Pencils: Jack Cole (signed) \| Inks: Jack Cole (signed)
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Doc Mortimer Wackey Gabby (a Monkey) Waldo Whiz (introduction) Professor Porgie (villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Tashayoka
Featuring:	Espionage Starring Black X
Synopsis:	Black X slips into Tokyo during the Doolitte bombing in order to seduce Japanese actress and spy Tashayoka.
Credits:	Script: Toni Blum ?; Otto Binder ? \| Pencils: Alex Kotzky (signed) \| Inks: Alex Kotzky (signed)
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Espionage [Black X] Batu Tashayoka (villain)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Archie O'Toole
Synopsis:	The Fun-Dictator fires Pansy "The Queen of Burlesque" and hires a new "official dancer to the court" who doesn't appeal to King Archie.
Credits:	Script: Bernard Dibble \| Pencils: Bernard Dibble \| Inks: Bernard Dibble
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Archie O'Toole Pansy Gaga

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Sextuplets
Featuring:	The Jester
Synopsis:	One of six identically dressed mobsters pulls a bank robbery, but the question is: which one?
Credits:	Script: Paul Gustavson (signed) \| Pencils: Paul Gustavson (signed) \| Inks: Paul Gustavson (signed) \| Letters: Paul Gustavson
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Jester [Chuck Lane] Detective Hustace McGinty The Sextuplets (villains)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Wildfire
Synopsis:	Helene Bennett thinks she killed Monte Rose, so she tries to jump off a building. But Wildfire has other ideas.
Credits:	Script: Robert Turner (signed) \| Pencils: Jim Mooney (signed) \| Inks: Jim Mooney (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Wildfire Helene Bennett Blair Niles

Comic Story (5 pages)	Wanted!
Featuring:	Bozo the Robot
Synopsis:	Two Nazis try to frame Bozo for murder.
Credits:	Script: George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] \| Pencils: George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] \| Inks: George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Hugh Hazzard Bozo The Robot Carl Fritz

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Khan
Featuring:	The Ray
Synopsis:	Happy is kidnapped by Mongols and taken to Russia, where his plane is shot down, his captor killed, who leaves a map with his plans behind. The Ray discovers a special Russian division called the Flame Troops who have been trained by The Khan, a descendant of Genghis and Kublai Khan, both of whom had great strength and mystical knowledge. The Khan waylays the Ray long enough to lay siege to Moscow, but, when the Ray recovers, he throws the Khan to his doom from the top of St. Basil's Cathedral.
Credits:	Pencils: Reed Crandall \| Inks: Reed Crandall
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Ray [Happy Terrill] Bud The Khan (villain, Introduction, Death) Petrov (villain) Ileana Kamova (villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Rookie Rankin
Synopsis:	A woman gives Rookie her baby to hold, and then disappears.
Credits:	Pencils: Arthur Peddy (signed) \| Inks: Arthur Peddy (signed)
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Rookie Rankin Sgt. Burns Ma Rankin Spike Big Jim Donnell

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Wun Cloo
Credits:	Script: Jack Cole? \| Pencils: Jack Cole? \| Inks: Jack Cole?
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	The Purple Trio
Synopsis:	The Nazis try to steal the proceeds of a Red Cross show.
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] Carl (villain) Adolph (villain)

Text Story (2 pages)	Murder Never Pays
Featuring:	Jimmy Christian
Credits:	Script: Robert M. Hyatt? \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure

Comic Story (6 pages)	Izan
Featuring:	Wings Wendall
Synopsis:	Nazi planes have been smuggled into America and now they're bombing Philadelphia.
Credits:	Script: Vernon Henkel (signed) \| Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed) \| Inks: Vernon Henkel (signed)
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Wings Wendall Izan Captain Grutz

Comic Story (7 pages)	Zita
Featuring:	The Marksman
Synopsis:	In order to get out of a Nazi function, the Baron purposely crashes a plane and has Vorka declare him to be unfit for military duty. Then, as the Marksman, he meets the Nazi General with TNT-laden arrows, blowing his train off the tracks. Finally, a girl that the Baron once knew as a child is now working for the underground, and he has to rescue her from the Nazis, hiding her out in his tower hideaway.
Credits:	Pencils: Alex Koda \| Inks: Alex Koda
Genre:	Adventure War
Characters:	The Marksman [Baron Povalski, Aka Major Hurtz] Vorka Zita General Feutchwarr (villain)

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