Smash Comics #19 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1941

About Smash Comics #19

George Brenner story, cover (featuring The Ray), and art. Jack Cole story and art. Lou Fine, Alex Blum, and John Celardo art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bozo the Robot (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Midnight [Dave Clark] (inset)

Pencils: George Brenner

Inks: George Brenner

STORY DETAILS

(14 Stories)

Title: Slash Scraponi's Escape

Characters: The Ray [Lanford "Happy" Terrill]; unnamed Warden of Bedlam Island prison; Slash Scraponi (villain, introduction); Corny Hogan (villain, death); unnamed fake Warden of Bedlam Island prison (villain)

Synopsis: Corny Hogan turns state's evidence on Slash Scarponi, and the criminal is sentenced to Bedlam Island prison for twenty years. However, Slash is still able to control his mob on the outside because he has a phony warden in charge of the prison. When Happy Terrill begins putting the heat on Scarponi, the mobster decides it's time to break out of prison and get Terrill.

Pages: 9.000

Pencils: Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed)

Inks: Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed)

Notes: Story title amended to that found in the reprint.

Characters: The Scarlet Seal (Barry Moore); Captain Pat Moore

Pages: 5.000

Script: Harry Francis Campbell [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed)

Pencils: Harry Francis Campbell [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed)

Inks: Harry Francis Campbell [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed)

Notes: Credits suggested by the Who's Who.

Characters: Espionage [Black X]

Pages: 6.000

Script: Lane French

Pencils: John Celardo

Inks: John Celardo

Notes: 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: The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Chuck; Belthor (leader of the Cro-Magnon men); Gordon Stack (villain)

Synopsis: Kent and Chuck crash land in the Arctic and find a tropical land replete with cavemen and thought-to-be extinct animals. Belthor, leader of the cavemen, says that the land is heated by volcanic steam and his people enslaved by men drilling for oil.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)

Pencils: Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)

Inks: Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)

Characters: Magno [Tom Dalton]; unnamed enemy agent leader (villain)

Synopsis: When Tom's passenger plane is hijacked en route to Alaska, he defends the home front by uncovering an invasion plot wherein enemy agents are converting American transports into bombers.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Pencils: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inks: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Letters: Paul Gustavson

Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license

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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	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	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	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10

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