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SMASH COMICS #48

Cover Date: November 1943
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Alex Kotzky


Story: "Sinister Menace from Mars... or Someplace" (11 Pages)

Credits:

StoryPaul Gustavson
ArtPaul Gustavson
LetteringPaul Gustavson
EditingMartin DeMuth

Feature Character(s):

Midnight

Supporting Character(s):

Gabby the Talking Monkey
Doc Wackey
Sniffer Snoop
Hotfoot

Villain(s):

Professor Drizzpan (first appearance; creates large robots, claims they are from Mars, but plans on selling them to the US military)


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Second Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtBernard Sachs
EditingMartin DeMuth

Feature Character(s):

Black X (poses as a German officer to gain entrance to the Japanese High Command where he foils the creation of a death gas)

Supporting Character(s):

Batu

Villain(s):

'Japanese Army (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Istanbul, Turkey
Tokyo, Japan


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Third Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryFred Guardineer
ArtFred Guardineer
LetteringFred Guardineer
EditingMartin DeMuth

Feature Character(s):

Marksman

Supporting Character(s):

Vorka

Villain(s):

Adolph Hitler
Fraulein Halulke (first appearance; women's wrestling champion of Germany and a Nazi agent; poses as a peasant girl to get close to Marksman; finds out his secretl; dies)
Nazis (first appearance for all; several die)

Location(s):

Poland
Berlin, Germany

Comment(s):

Marksman wears his cape and hood.


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Fourth Story: "Ribbing Racketeers" (7 Pages)

Credits:

ArtMort Leav
EditingMartin DeMuth

Feature Character(s):

Jester

Supporting Character(s):

Inspector McGinty
Quinopolis

Villain(s):

J.J. Pilbeam (first appearance; attempts to run for Governor, hires gangsters to fake an attack at him)
Greiner(first appearance; a thug hired to fake an attack on Pilbeam)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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