Smash Comics #51 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1944

About Smash Comics #51

Paul Gustavson, Fred Guardineer, Don Rico, and Jack Cole art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Wild Bill Hiccup

Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby; Doc Mortimer Wackey

Pencils: Alex Kotzky ?

Inks: Alex Kotzky ?

STORY DETAILS

(10 Stories)

Title: Wild Bill Hiccup

Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Wild Bill Hiccup; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby; Sniffer Snoop; Hotfoot; Owl Ousler

Synopsis: Wild Bill Hiccup is so full of gas he floats, plus he never stops hiccuping.

Pages: 11.000

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.

Title: The Case of the Broken Buddha

Characters: Rookie Rankin; Bernice; Carl; Ralph; Lucius

Synopsis: Aunt Paisley dies and leaves her collection of Buddha statues to her nephew Ralph. He doesn't know why they're worth anything, but people are dying to get their hands on them.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Mort Leav

Notes: Originally credited "Witmer Williams ?", but does not match his other credited stories in this features. Compared with Leav's signed story in Power Comics #4, everything matches, face of the policeman, large hands, way of running with high lifted knees and some panels without backgrounds. Only the inking is different.

Title: The Flying Mountain

Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Anna; Pico; Utu; Machi; Major Mitsui (villain)

Synopsis: From Brazil, The Marksman and Anna follow a Nazi map into the Andes Mountains to a Japanese nest, and there they destroy a hydrogen zeppelin.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Fred Guardineer (signed)

Inks: Fred Guardineer (signed)

Title: Bismark the Blackmailer

Characters: Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Helga (Brenda's maid); Peecolo; Daphne Dymple of the Lady Luck Patrol; Pinky Binnacle; Moxy Bismark (villain)

Synopsis: Daphne is enlisted to help Brenda fool mobster Moxy Bismark, who has learned her secret identity. When Moxy threatens to blackmail Brenda, Daphne dresses as Lady Luck, but is soon captured, and when the mobsters unmask her, Moxy stands there confused. Not only it is not Brenda Banks, but Lady Luck appears to be seriously ill (Daphne had been made up to look as if she had smallpox), and Peecolo, posing as a doctor, is called in to treat her.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Klaus Nordling (signed)

Pencils: Klaus Nordling (signed)

Inks: Klaus Nordling (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	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	6
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	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	6

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