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SMASH COMICS #85

Cover Date: October 1949
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Cole (signed)

Story: [No Title] (11 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jack Cole
Art	Jack Cole
Lettering	Jack Cole
Editing	Nancy Smith

Feature Character(s):

Midnight (begins hosting a variety show on television; next in the third story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Gabby the Talking Monkey (next in the third story in this issue)

Doc Wackey (next in the third story in this issue)

Snooper Smith (next in the third story in this issue)

Hotfoot (next in the third story in this issue)

Villain(s):

Percentage Graftly (first appearance; a crooked talent agent)

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Second Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Chuck Winter
Editing	Nancy Smith

Feature Character(s):

Black X

Supporting Character(s):

Batu

Det. Beef Burton

Villain(s):

Harrow and his gang (first appearance for all; art forgers)

Location(s):

Washington, DC

Comment(s):

This is the final Black X story published in the Golden Age.

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Third Story: "Midnight's Merry Men" (1 Page)

Credits:

Lettering	Typeset
Editing	Nancy Smith

Feature Character(s):

Midnight

Supporting Character(s):

Gabby the Talking Monkey

Doc Wackey

Snooper Smith

Hotfoot

Villain(s):

Red Ruggles (no actual appearance; a mobster)

Comment(s):

This is the final Midnight story published in the Golden Age.

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Fourth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Pete Riss
Editing	Nancy Smith

Feature Character(s):

Jester (next in flashback in Starman Vol. 2 #46)

Supporting Character(s):

Inspector Hustace McGinty

Villain(s):

Keith Brewster (first appearance; an understudy who tries to steal a diamond necklace)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Comment(s):

This is the final Jester story published in the Golden Age.

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