Unofficial Smash Comics Index

SMASH COMICS #40

Cover Date: February 1943
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1942-12-18

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Cover Credits:
Art: Reed Crandall

Story: [No Title] (11 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Paul Gustavson
Art	Paul Gustavson
Lettering	Paul Gustavson
Editing	Gill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Midnight

Supporting Character(s):

Gabby

Doc Wackey

Villain(s):

Bullets Balow (first appearance; a wanted crook who escapes to the Land of Flight)

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Second Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Joe Kubert
Editing	Gill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Black X

Supporting Character(s):

Batu

Villain(s):

Baroness Eliza Holstein and Japanese Army (first appearance; a Nazi who tries to use her father's castle for the Japanese; dies)

Location(s):

Solomon Islands

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Third Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

Story	George Brenner
Art	George Brenner
Lettering	George Brenner
Editing	Ed Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Hugh Hazzard

Bozo the Iron Man

Villain(s):

Saboteurs

Other Character(s):

Homer Twipple (first appearance; builds an "Iron Man" suit similar to Bozo, but is destroyed)

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Fourth Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Fred Guardineer
Art	Fred Guardineer
Lettering	Fred Guardineer
Editing	Gill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Marksman

Villain(s):

Cross Bow (first appearance; a Nazi agent who uses a crossbow)

Location(s):

Poland

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Fifth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Rudy Palais
Editing	Gill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Ray (next in Pre-Crisis chronology, Justice League of America #107; Post-Crisis, next in flashback in Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #4)

Supporting Character(s):

Bud (last appearance)

Villain(s):

Saboteurs (first appearance for all)

Comment(s):

This is the final Ray story published during the Golden Age.

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Sixth Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Paul Gustavson
Art	Paul Gustavson
Lettering	Paul Gustavson
Editing	Gill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Jester

Supporting Character(s):

Inspector McGinty

Villain(s):

Gurgles (first appearance; a crook)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

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Seventh Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Al Gabrielle
Editing	Gill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Yankee Eagle

Villain(s):

Crow (first appearance; breaks out of Leavenworth Prison to run a rationing racketeering gang)

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