Digital Comic Museum - Smash Comics 041


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Smash Comics #41 [Mar'43]-68pg-c2c -Henry Peters scans
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Comment:	This is the first appearance of Daffy, the lady wrestler, who continued to feature in this title until the end.

Issue: #41
Published: March 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: George Brenner
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was On-Going Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Doc Mortimer Wackey Gabby (a Monkey) Daffy (inset)

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)
Characters:	Kid Eternity Mr. Keeper Captain Triumph

Comic Story (11 pages)
Synopsis:	Doc Wackey shows his latest gadget to the army and destroys half the city in the process.
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Doc Mortimer Wackey Gabby (a Monkey) O'Toole Private Klink

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Amber Trap
Synopsis:	Madame Doom is killing people with plastic to make them horrifying exhibits to demoralize the Allies.
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Espionage [Black X] Batu Madame Doom (villain) Professor Stultz (villain) Colonel Atwater Ted Winston Bob Anderson Waterson

Comic Story (5 pages)	Collecting Scrap
Synopsis:	Kids gather scrap metal for the war effort, then get into a scrape over who owns the scrap.
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Henry Doaks Elmer Percy Hugh Hazzard

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	McGinty, upset when he reads his own obituary in the paper, along with the Jester, barely escape Lady Satan, who is the strongarm for a woman that marries men for their life insurance policies.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Jester [Chuck Lane] Detective Hustace McGinty Penelope (villain) Lady Satan (villain)

Comic Story (8 pages)	Heiress Still Missing
Synopsis:	Larry gets hired for a stunt job, but it's all a plot to pin a murder on him, if he doesn't die in the stunt that is.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble] Dinah Shane Wenner

Comic Story (1 page)
Synopsis:	While walking around town Wun hears the tailor offering to give someone a cuff in the pants.
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Wun Cloo Sam

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	The Marksman is in El Nefud to get a cure for a disease from a discredited doctor.
Genre:	Adventure War
Characters:	The Marksman [Baron Povalski, Aka Major Hurtz] Dr. Valdu (villain) Shamar Valdu Schultz-Klink Abdul Zoga

Text Story (2 pages)	Man of Fire
Featuring:	Jimmy Christian
Synopsis:	Jimmy learns of a tribe torturing white men by stretching them out.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Tarku Bannock Jimmy Christian Jack Nicols Geld Van Staadt

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (0 pages)
Characters:	Hendrickson Blackhawk Olaf Chop-Chop

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Daffy and Deke
Synopsis:	Daffy searches for Deke, her former (crooked) wrestling manager, who has fled to the big city.
Genre:	Adventure Humor Sports
Characters:	Daffy Dill (introduction) Deke Parsons (villain, Wrestling Manager)

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Spider's Web
Synopsis:	The Spider runs a protection racket, and Rookie is determined to break him.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Rookie Rankin The Spider Dagger Letti Joe

Advertisement (1 page)
Featuring:	Metro Publications
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Advertisement (1 page)
Featuring:	American Seed Company
Credits:	Pencils: ?; ? (photograph) \| Inks: ?; ? (photograph) \| Letters: typeset

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