Digital Comic Museum > Smash Comics 047

Issue: #47
Published: October 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Martin DeMuth
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)
Featuring:	Midnight
Credits:	Pencils: Alex Kotzky \| Inks: Alex Kotzky
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Gabby Doc Mortimer Wackey

Comic Story (11 pages)	Join the Midnight Murder Club
Featuring:	Midnight
Synopsis:	The underworld puts out a million dollar bounty on Midnight, but no one wants to collect on it until Brains Baroni offers a fool-proof, no risk way to get rid of Midnight.
Credits:	Script: Paul Gustavson (signed) \| Pencils: Paul Gustavson (signed) \| Inks: Paul Gustavson (signed) \| Letters: Paul Gustavson
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Doc Mortimer Wackey Gabby (a Monkey) Sniffer Snoop Hot Dog Brains Baroni (villain) Stilleto (villain) Bruiser (villain)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Archie O'Toole
Credits:	Script: Bernard Dibble \| Pencils: Bernard Dibble \| Inks: Bernard Dibble
Genre:	Humor Children
Characters:	Archie O'Tool (king) Hanratty

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Great White Way
Featuring:	Daffy
Synopsis:	Daffy suddenly finds herself as a star in a Broadway show with a possible murder on her hands.
Credits:	Pencils: Bart Tumey \| Inks: Bart Tumey
Genre:	Humor Sports
Characters:	Daffy Null And Void (producers) 10 Percent (an Agent) A Plumber

Comic Story (8 pages)	Tibet!
Featuring:	Espionage Starring Black X
Synopsis:	The Grand Lama brings Black X to his land to investigate his would-be successor.
Credits:	Pencils: Bernard Sachs (signed) \| Inks: Bernard Sachs (signed)
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Black X Batu The Grand Lama Tura

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Notorius Yokukasa Brothers
Featuring:	Lady Luck
Synopsis:	Lady Luck must confront and overcome several Japanese spies who are attempting to turn children's toys into death bombs.
Credits:	Script: Klaus Nordling (signed) \| Pencils: Klaus Nordling (signed) \| Inks: Klaus Nordling (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Lady Luck [Brenda Banks] Peecolo Pinky Yokukasa Brothers (villains)

Comic Story (8 pages)	Rookie Rankin Takes the Payoff
Featuring:	Rookie Rankin
Synopsis:	Rookie tries to put a stop to a gambling racket run by Sloop Tager
Credits:	Pencils: Mort Leav
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Rookie Rankin Sloop Tager Boss Pete Pinero

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Wun Cloo, the Defective Detective
Synopsis:	Wun discovers a big fellow beating up someone because of a poster he sees that he mis-interprets.
Credits:	Pencils: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed) \| Inks: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed)
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Wun Cloo (detective)

Comic Story (7 pages)	Another William Tell
Featuring:	The Marksman
Synopsis:	Major Hurtz welcomes a delegation of Japanese delegates who have come to Poland to help plan for future attacks on their enemies, and they have the cruelest plan ever to try and smoke out the Marksman.
Credits:	Pencils: Fred Guardineer (signed) \| Inks: Fred Guardineer (signed) \| Letters: Fred Guardineer ?
Genre:	Adventure War
Characters:	The Marksman [Baron Povalski, Aka Major Hurtz] Vorka The Nazis (villains) The Japanese [Mito Others Un-named] (villains, Some Die)

Text Story (2 pages)	Black Doom
Featuring:	Jimmy Christian
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure Detective-mystery
Characters:	Jimmy Christian (detective) Gabrielle Dupard (Mystery Woman) Pierre Dupard

Comic Story (8 pages)	Mary Slade
Featuring:	Yankee Eagle
Synopsis:	A young girl is framed for her brother's murder, and the Yankee Eagle ends up nabbing her cousin for the crime as well as him using a secret radio transmitter to forward vital information for the Japanese.
Credits:	Script: Vernon Henkel (signed) \| Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed) \| Inks: Vernon Henkel (signed)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble] Mary Slade Mary Slade's Brother (death) Kelsey (a Policeman) John Hadley (villain, Mary's Cousin) Irwin (villain, Hadley's Butler)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Adventure of Stoneface!
Featuring:	The Jester
Synopsis:	Stoneface has found his way to the hidden headquarters of Rad Romsey, gang chief, to offer his help to kill The Jester, just as he killed off Romsey's partner, Vikko Voroni.
Credits:	Pencils: Mort Leav \| Inks: Mort Leav
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Jester [Chuck Lane] Stoneface (villain) Rad Romsey (villain, Gang Chief) Vikko Voroni (villain, Death) Whiffy (villain, Death)

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