Smash Comics #36 Rockford pedigree (Quality, 1942) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages. With the fantastic line-up of art...

Auction amount: $517.50

Sold: Dec 7, 2002

Smash Comics #36 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1942

About Smash Comics #36

Reed Crandall cover. Jack Cole art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset)

Pencils: Reed Crandall

Inks: Reed Crandall

STORY DETAILS

(13 Stories)

Title: The Death of Midnight!!

Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); The Professor; Cyclops Ceylon (villain); Satan (villain); Mrs. Satan (villain)

Synopsis: Midnight tumbles to his death from a battle with Cyclops Ceylon, is declined entrance to heaven, and asks to be sent to Hell so he can fight the Devil himself, only to find out the Mrs. is in charge, who subjects him to unspeakable tortures. Meanwhile, a strange Professor bargains with Doc Wackey, and offers to exchange his life for Midnight's. The gambit works, and Midnight leaves Hell just as he'd convinced its inmates to revolt (and prevent further Nazi evils in the "waking world").

Pages: 9.000

Script: Jack Cole (signed)

Pencils: Jack Cole (signed)

Inks: Jack Cole (signed)

Notes: Storyline continued in the next issue. On the splash page, Gabby announced that the feature was now 9 pages in length (the 9 page stories actually begin with issue #35).

Title: The Vengeance

Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu (Espionage's aide); The Vengeance (villain, death); The Japanese (villains)

Synopsis: Black X and Batu head for the orient in search of the elusive "V Man" and are nearly destroyed by Vengeance.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Toni Blum ?; Otto Binder ?

Pencils: Alex Kotzky [as Alex S. Kotzky] (signed)

Inks: Alex Kotzky [as Alex S. Koyzky] (signed)

Notes: Writer credits 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).

Title: Micky Kane

Characters: Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin]; Micky Kane; Tom Kane (Micky's brother); group of thugs (villains)

Synopsis: Wildfire gives Micky Kane a special flame so that he can call her whenever he's in trouble, and he soon discovers a need for it when a group of hoods decides to pilfer an invention of Tom Kane.....a special antidote for poison gas!

Pages: 5.000

Script: Robert Turner [as Robt. Turner] (signed)

Pencils: Jim Mooney (signed)

Inks: Jim Mooney (signed)

Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Johnson (bank teller); Professor (villain); Professor's gang (villains)

Synopsis: The Professor creates a spray that reduces a person's size, so the Jester must face a gang of three inch tall bank robbers.

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: Hammer Hand

Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Terrill's newspaper editor; Hammer Hand (villain)

Synopsis: Happy Terrill, framed for bank robbery by Hammer Hand, a criminal with a mallet for a hand, is arrested for the crime and loses his job as reporter.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Reed Crandall

Inks: Reed Crandall

Title: Diane's Revenge

Characters: Wings Wendall; Westcott (dies); Diane Westcott

Synopsis: After Diane's father is killed, she and Wings fly a suicide mission over Germany to try and kill Hitler.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Vernon Henkel (signed)

Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed)

Inks: Vernon Henkel

Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Wakovsky (Polish inventor); Adolf Hitler (villain)

Synopsis: Major Hurtz claims to have killed the Marksman as a way of getting invited to Berlin. There, he frees a Polish inventor and smuggles him to Africa in a bomb casing. After the Marksman has freed the Pole, Hitler himself reprimands Major Hurtz.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Ed Cronin

Pencils: Alex Koda

Inks: Alex Koda

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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	1	1	1	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
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	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	3	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	12

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