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42April 1943
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Smash Comics #42

Quality Comics · April 1943 · on sale 1943-02-24

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Identification plate

Series
Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series)
Issue
#42
Publication date
April 1943
Key date
1943-04-00
On-sale date
1943-02-24
Indicia publisher
E. M. Arnold
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Midnight: Whoever Dares Solve This Murder Will Die before Morning...cover1pencils: Alex Kotzky; inks: Alex KotzkyMidnight [Dave Clark]; Hot Foot (a polar bear); Gabby (a monkey)
1Sniffer Snoopcomic story11pencils: Alex Kotzky; inks: Alex KotzkyMidnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop (detective, introduction); Hot Foot (a polar bear, introduction)
2The Kidnapping of Brenda Bankscomic story4script: Klaus Nordling; pencils: Klaus Nordling; inks: Klaus NordlingLady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count DeChange [Count DiChange]; Mr. Fatning
3Dead Pigeons Tell No Tales!comic story8script: Otto Binder; pencils: Bernard Sachs; inks: Bernard SachsBlack X; Batu; General Strickland; Colonel Winton (villain)
4-comic story1pencils: Bernard Dibble; inks: Bernard Dibble
5Here Lies the Marksmancomic story7pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred GuardineerThe Marksman Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Major Grummel (villain)
6-comic story8pencils: Witmer WilliamsRookie Rankin; Sam Seift; the Tattooed Man;
7-comic story8pencils: Al Gabriele; inks: Al GabrieleYankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; The Khan
8Madagascar Interludetext story2letters: typesetJimmy Christian; Toby Sanders; Agut (native trailer)
9-comic story1pencils: Jack Cole; inks: Jack ColeWun Cloo (detective)
10-comic story5script: Gill FoxDaffy Dill; Deke Parsons
11-comic story7script: Paul Gustavson; pencils: Paul Gustavson; inks: Paul Gustavson; letters: Paul GustavsonThe Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Lady Satan (villain)

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