Smash Comics is the title of an American

United States

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 Golden Age comic book

Comic book

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 anthology

Anthology

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 series, published by Quality Comics

Quality Comics

Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company that operated from 1939 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books....

 for 85 issues between 1939 and 1949. It became the series Lady Luck

Lady Luck (comics)

Lady Luck is a fictional, American comic-strip and comic book crime fighter and adventuress created and designed in 1940 by Will Eisner with artist Chuck Mazoujian . Through 1946, she starred in a namesake, four-page weekly feature published in a Sunday-newspaper comic-book insert colloquially...

for #86-90 (Dec 1949 - Aug 1950).

Smash Comics starred a variety of superhero

Superhero

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es and other crimefighters, including the Ray

Ray (comics)

The Ray is the name of four fictional characters, all superheroes in the DC Comics universe.The first Ray was a Quality Comics character who was one of those purchased by DC Comics. He was later retconned as a member of the Freedom Fighters...

 (cover feature on #15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27), Midnight (cover feature from #28-85), the Invisible Hood

Invisible Hood

The Invisible Hood is a fictional superhero in the DC Comics Universe. He was originally owned by Quality Comics, but was later acquired by DC Comics, along with other Quality characters...

, Magno

Magno (Golden Age)

Magno is a fictional superhero originally published by Quality Comics. He was created by Paul Gustavson. His first appearance was in Smash Comics #13 . He was one of the characters that were purchased by DC Comics when Quality Comics sold their assets. However, the copyright on these comics...

, The Jester, Black X (cover feature on several issues), and the robot Bozo the Iron Man

Bozo the Iron Man

Hugh Hazzard and his Robot, Bozo the Iron Man was a fictional character featured in issues 1-42 of the Smash Comics comic book from Quality Comics. Hugh Hazzard's adventures were written and crudely drawn by Quality Comics editor George Brenner...

 (cover feature on #8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26). Reprints of the four-page crimefighter feature "Lady Luck", originally published in the Sunday-newspaper

Newspaper

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 insert colloquially called "The Spirit Section

The Spirit

The Spirit is a crime-fighting fictional character created by writer-artist Will Eisner. He first appeared June 2, 1940 in "The Spirit Section", the colloquial name given to a 16-page Sunday supplement, distributed to 20 newspapers by the Register and Tribune Syndicate and reaching five million...

", also appeared.

The title was used again in 1999 as a part of the DC Comics

DC Comics

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 crossover

Fictional crossover

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 story arc "Justice Society Returns

Justice Society Returns

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Note - This is not related to the British comic Smash! published in the United Kingdom by Odhams / IPC.