Quality Released December 1940

Smash Comics #19

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Published December 1940
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 68

A collection of comics and stories, including:  "Slash Scraponi's Escape" , featuring the Ray :   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. --  "Graft" , featuring Midnight :   Radio announcer Dave Clark stumbles across a game of orphans and graft, and only as the eerie Midnight, outlaw friend of the needy, is he able to bring about justice. --  "Arctic Tropical Forest" , featuring the Invisible Hood :   Kent and Chuck crash land in the Arctic and came upon a tropical land replete with cavemen and thought-to-be-extinct animals. Belthor, leader of the cavemen, said that the land was heated by volcanic steam and his people enslaved by men drilling for oil. --  "Airliners into Bombers" , featuring Magno, the Magnetic Man :   Tom Dalton is a passenger on a Stratoliner 4-engine commercial airliner which gets hijacked by foreign agents to the North Tip of Alaska.  Only by changing into Magno can he hope to overcome the hijackers. PLUS :  Wings Wendall, Scarlet Seal, Purple Trio, Chic Carter, and more!!