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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Rookie Rankin (inset); Bozo the Robot (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset)
Pencils:
Gill Fox
Inks:
Gill Fox
Letters:
typeset
STORY DETAILS
Title:
The Von Ribboncounter Affair
Characters:
The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Von Ribboncounter (villain); Adolf (villain)
Synopsis:
Von Ribboncounter tries to sabotage the Army's test of a new dive bomber.
Pages:
9.000
Pencils:
Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed)
Inks:
Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed)
Notes:
In his article in Alter Ego #127 (August 2014), Ken Quattro states that, by this issue of Smash, Fine was collaborating with new Quality artist Bob Fujitani. He doesn't state that Fujitani worked with Fine on this story, but art spotters might want to check this out.
Characters:
Rookie Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Liguori Gang (villains); Strega Liguori
Synopsis:
Rookie runs into the Liguori mob while trying to sell tickets to a benefit Police/Firefighters ballgame.
Pages:
6.000
Pencils:
Arthur F. Peddy (signed)
Inks:
Arthur F. Peddy (signed)
Title:
The Yes Woman
Characters:
Archie O'Toole
Pages:
1.000
Script:
John Devlin
Pencils:
John Devlin
Inks:
John Devlin
Characters:
The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Miss Malone; Tony; Laporta; Lefty (villain)
Synopsis:
Gangster Speed Malone left an old house to his daughter, but his lawyer won't tell her where it is.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Pencils:
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Inks:
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Letters:
Paul Gustavson
Notes:
Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Title:
Big Tom's Oil Saboteurs
Characters:
Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin]; Big Tom (villain); Old Ben (death)
Synopsis:
Wildfire, while visiting oil fields in the southwest, stumbles upon a murder, but the man behind the killing, Big Tom, thinks his liquid air gun will stop Wildfire.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Robert Turner (signed)
Pencils:
Jim Mooney (signed)
Inks:
Jim Mooney (signed)
Notes:
Modified synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 4-13-09.
Characters:
The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; The White Wizard (villain, scientist)
Synopsis:
Kent Thurston discovers his invisible hood has been stolen by the White Wizard, a scientist who cracks its secret and makes duplicates for a gang of criminals who menace the city of Metropolis and whom the populace thought were actually aliens.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)
Pencils:
Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)
Inks:
Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)
Notes:
This is the 2nd appearance of the White Wizard, the only villain the Hood faced more than once.
Title:
The Case of the Yehudi Murder
Characters:
Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Mr. Hobbs; Sherrif Stanbaugh; Mayor Smith; Police Chief O'Connor; District Attorney Kane; Professor Craft (villain)
Synopsis:
Professor Craft uses plastic surgery to create doubles of public officials and then kills the real ones.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Jack Cole (signed)
Pencils:
Jack Cole (signed)
Inks:
Jack Cole (signed)
Title:
The Legions of the Red Menace
Characters:
Wings Wendall; Red Menace (villain)
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Vernon Henkel (signed)
Pencils:
Vernon Henkel (signed)
Inks:
Vernon Henkel (signed)
Characters:
Wun Cloo
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Jack Cole ?
Pencils:
Jack Cole ?
Inks:
Jack Cole ?
Characters:
The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Tiny Todd; Warren]
Synopsis:
The boys take jobs in a Florida hotel and expose a counterfeit racket.
Pages:
5.000
Pencils:
Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)
Inks:
Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)
Notes:
Alex Blum is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and his gloomy faces are not to be mistaken. Compare sample in Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Jerry Iger is credited as writer for Quality, and his pen name was S.M. Regi (Iger backwards).
Writer revision from Jerry Iger to ? by Craig Delich 2013-12-26. The Who's Who indicates that S. M. Regi was a pen-name sometimes used by Jerry Iger, but also by others as a house by-line. It further indicates that Jerry Iger did not write this feature, but that Alex Blum, under this pen-name or by-line, did draw the strip.
Synopsis:
Black X battles U-boats off the coast of California.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Lane French ? [as Erwin] (signed)
Pencils:
Witmer Williams
Inks:
Witmer Williams
Notes:
Writer revision from Eisner to French ? by Craig Delich.
Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43).
Characters:
Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot
Synopsis:
Hugh tries to stop a defense plant hold-up but ends up buried alive in a cave.
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CGC Census Report*
Grade
NG
PG
CVR
0.5
1.0
1.5
1.8
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.2
9.4
9.6
9.8
9.9
10.0
Total
Universal
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
2
2
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
8
Qualified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Signature Series
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
CGCxJSA
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Restored
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
Total
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
2
2
0
0
0
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
10
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