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Smash Comics #19

Quality Comics · Series began 1939 · February 1941

Dates

Cover date
February 1941
On sale
December 18, 1940
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: George Brenner, Lou Fine, Vern Henkel, Harry Campbell, Jack Cole, Alex Blum, John Celardo, Gill Fox, Art Pinajian, Bob Powell, Paul Gustavsoninks: George Brenner, Lou Fine, Vern Henkel, Harry Campbell, Jack Cole, Alex Blum, John Celardo, Gill Fox, Art Pinajian, Bob Powell, Paul Gustavsonscript: Vern Henkel, Harry Campbell, Jack Cole, Dick French, Gill Fox, Art Pinajian, Bob Powell, Robert Hyatt, Paul Gustavson, George Brennerletters: Paul Gustavson

Stories

  • Slash Scraponi's Escape · 9 pages

    Corny Hogan turns state's evidence on Slash Scarponi, and the criminal is sentenced to Bedlam Island prison for twenty years. However, Slash is still able to control his mob on the outside because he has a phony warden in charge of the prison. When Happy Terrill begins putting the heat on Scarponi, the mobster decides it's time to break out of prison and get Terrill.

  • Madame La Zinga · 2 pages
  • Graft · 5 pages

    Midnight investigates graft and corruption at an orphanage.

  • Untitled · 5 pages

    Kent and Chuck crash land in the Arctic and find a tropical land replete with cavemen and thought-to-be extinct animals. Belthor, leader of the cavemen, says that the land is heated by volcanic steam and his people enslaved by men drilling for oil.

  • Shauri · 4 pages
  • The Mummy Speaks · 2 pages
  • Untitled · 4 pages

    When Tom's passenger plane is hijacked en route to Alaska, he defends the home front by uncovering an invasion plot wherein enemy agents are converting American transports into bombers.

  • The Lamas of the Red Dragon · 4 pages

Reprinted in

Special Edition Series (1974), Men of Mystery Comics (1999), The Quality Companion (2011)

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