Smash Comics #37 Mile High pedigree (Quality, 1942) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages....

Auction amount: $1,792.50

Sold: Feb 22, 2014

Smash Comics #37 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1942

About Smash Comics #37

Midnight story with Jack Cole art. Last Purple Trio and Wildfire appearances. Gill Fox cover. Paul Gustavson, Alex Kotzky, Vernon Henkel, and Reed Crandall art.

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COVER DETAILS

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

Pencils: Gill Fox ?

Inks: Gill Fox ?

STORY DETAILS

(13 Stories)

Title: Doc Wackey Goes Berserk!

Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby; Skull Duggery; The Professor

Synopsis: The mysterious Professor returns for Doc Wackey's life, and uses Doc to create and test a super-speed formula. Wackey ends up with super speed, which he proceeds to dedicate to a life of crime! Midnight took the serum himself just to keep up with Doc, but it eventually wears off.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Jack Cole

Pencils: Jack Cole

Inks: Tony DiPreta

Notes: Inker revision from Cole to DiPreta by Craig Delich 2013-6-16 per Jim Amash in the Quality Companion.

Title: Rescuing Papa

Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Tinka Van Doorne (Peter's daughter); Peter Van Doorne

Synopsis: A little girl asks Black X to rescue her father who is being held by the Nazis behind enemy lines.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Toni Blum ?; Otto Binder ?

Pencils: Alex Kotzky (signed)

Inks: Alex Kotzky (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).

Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Tough Tony; Dagger Joe (villain); Trigger (villain)

Synopsis: Chuck Lane asks that the toughest juvenile offender be paroled into his custody.

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: Dean of Darkness

Characters: Dean of Darkness; Wildfire

Synopsis: The Dean of Darkness tries to hold Carol Martin for ransom, not realizing she's Wildfire.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Robert Turner (signed)

Pencils: Jim Mooney (signed)

Inks: Jim Mooney

Notes: last appearance

Title: The Kidnapping of Peter Percy Gotgelt III

Characters: Peter Percy Gotgelt III; Hugh Hazzard; Bozo; The Terrible Trio

Synopsis: A trio of kidnappers find a little boy too much to handle.

Pages: 5.000

Script: George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]

Pencils: George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]

Inks: George Brenner

Characters: The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd]; Peters (villain)

Synopsis: A disgruntled zoo employee lets the animals loose to get revenge on the zoo director.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)

Inks: Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)

Notes: Last appearance.

Title: The Amazing Adventures of the Three Shadows

Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; The Three Shadows (introduction for all); Schtuper (villain)

Synopsis: A Czech, an Austrian and a Pole escape from a concentration camp and join the underground as the Three Shadows, through whom the Marksman smuggles Nazi war plans to the British.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Alex Koda (signed)

Inks: Alex Koda (signed)

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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	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7

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