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Smash Comics 19

SMASH COMICS #19

Cover Date: February 1941
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1940-12-18

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Cover Credits:
Art: George Brenner


Story: [No Title] (9 Pages)

Credits:

ArtLou Fine
LetteringLou Fine
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Ray

Villain(s):

Slash Scraponi (first appearance; runs his gangs from Bedlam Prison using a impostor Warden)

Other Character(s):

Steve (Happy's editor)

Comment(s):

Fine credited as E. Lectron.


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Second Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryVernon Henkel
ArtVernon Henkel
LetteringVernon Henkel
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Wings Wendall

Supporting Character(s):

Spinner Benson (his mechanic)

Villain(s):

Unnamed spies (first appearance; uses disguised airplanes to attempt to destroy Panama Canal)

Location(s):

Caribbean
Panama Canal Zone


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Third Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryHarry Francis Campbell
ArtHarry Francis Campbell
LetteringHarry Francis Campbell
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Scarlet Seal

Supporting Character(s):

Captain Pat Moore

Villain(s):

Shiv Nagol (first appearance; tries to frame Scarlet Seal; dies)


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJack Cole
ArtJack Cole
LetteringJack Cole
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Midnight

Villain(s):

Dobbs (first appearance; head of an orphanage who skims off money for himself and crooked councilmen)

Location(s):

Millville (first appearance; a suburb of Akron, OH)


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtAlex Blum
LetteringAlex Blum
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Purple Trio
Rocky Hill
Tiny Todd
Warren

Villain(s):

Unnamed spies (first appearance for all; try to kill an agent trying to leave the country)

Comment(s):

Alex Blum credited as S. M. Regi.


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryLane French
ArtJohn Celardo
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Black X

Villain(s):

A spy posing as a camp doctor (first appearance; uses slow acting poison to kill army recruits)

Location(s):

Washington, DC

Comment(s):

This story takes place over three months.


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Seventh Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryArt Pinajian
ArtArt Pinajian
LetteringArt Pinajian
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Invisible Justice

Villain(s):

Gordon Stack (first appearance; enslaves natives in a tropical enclave in the Arctic)

Location(s):

Alaska Territory

Comment(s):

Art Pinajian credited as Art Gordon.
The tropical zone shown here may actually be an entrance to Skataris.


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Eighth Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryPaul Gustavson
ArtPaul Gustavson
LetteringPaul Gustavson
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Magno

Villain(s):

An unnamed pilot (first appearance; takes control of large transport planes to use as bombers to destroy the west coast)

Location(s):

Alaska Territory


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Ninth Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryVernon Henkel
ArtVernon Henkel
LetteringVernon Henkel
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Chic Carter

Villain(s):

Khirgi and his men (first appearance for all; a Tibetan monk who wants to wrest control of the Red Dragon cult; dies)

Other Character(s):

Gordon Bruce (first appearance; an explorer)

Location(s):

Tibet


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Tenth Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGeorge Brenner
ArtGeorge Brenner
LetteringGeorge Brenner
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Hugh Hazzard
Bozo the Iron Man

Villain(s):

Unnamed robbers (first appearance for all; use airplanes to escape police; all die)

Comment(s):

George E. Brenner credited as Wayne Reid.


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