Smash Comics #6 for Sale - First Appearance of The Invisible Hood - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series)
Issue: #6
Publication date: January 1940
Key date: 1940-01-00
On-sale date: 1939-11-17
Indicia publisher: E. M. Arnold
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of The Invisible Hood - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Gill Fox; inks: Gill Fox	The Invisible Hood First
2	Famine and Gold	comic story	9	script: Erwin; pencils: Erwin; inks: Erwin	Black X; Thalga (villain, introduction); Marshal Stadt (villain, introduction); Captain Von Keil (villain, introduction); Batu; Colonel Atwater
3	The Affair of the Fabricating Bridegroom	comic story	2	script: John Devlin; pencils: John Devlin; inks: John Devlin	Philpot Veep; Waldo
4	Mystery of the Missing Button	comic story	4	script: George Brenner; pencils: George Brenner; inks: George Brenner	Clip Chance; Professor Devlin (introduction); Red
5	Mission in Morania	comic story	4	script: Vern Henkel; pencils: Vern Henkel; inks: Vern Henkel	Chic Carter; King Ludwig (introduction); Princess Maria (introduction)
6	The Texas Oil Fire	comic story	4	script: Paul Gustavson; pencils: Paul Gustavson; inks: Paul Gustavson; letters: Paul Gustavson	Flash Fulton; Gabby; Andy; Nick (villain, introduction); Tony (villain, introduction)
7	-	comic story	1	script: John Devlin; pencils: John Devlin; inks: John Devlin
8	The Emerald of Erin	comic story	7	script: George Brenner; pencils: George Brenner; inks: George Brenner	Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Boss Spiro (villain); Lippy (villain); Baldy (villain, introduction, death); B. B. Moss (villain)
9	King Horace of Spatoonia	comic story	2	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner	Archie O'Toole; King Horace XI (villain, introduction); Suzy Sweet
10	-	comic story	4	pencils: Stan Asch; inks: Stan Asch	Captain Cook; The Chief
11	Framed for Murder	comic story	4	script: Vern Henkel; pencils: Vern Henkel; inks: Vern Henkel	Abdul; Khabar (villain, introduction); Hassan; Tommy
12	Archie Sandromani	comic story	1	script: Gill Fox; pencils: Gill Fox; inks: Gill Fox
13	The Sound of Death	comic story	5	pencils: Harry Campbell; inks: Harry Campbell	John Law; The Avenger (villain); Roger Carlin; June
14	The Master of Mu [Part 1]	text story	2	script: Robert M. Hyatt
15	He Beat the Depression!	comic story	0.4	script: Stookie Allen; pencils: Stookie Allen; inks: Stookie Allen	George Daynor
16	-	statement of ownership	0.4	script: Everett M. Arnold
17	The Helium Hijackers	comic story	5	script: Art Pinajian; pencils: Art Pinajian; inks: Art Pinajian	Invisible Justice [Kent Thurston]; Commander Stone; Slug (villain, introduction); Lane (villain, introduction); Slug and Lane's gang (villain, introduction)
18	The Counterfeit Thousand Dollar Bills	comic story	2	script: Gill Fox; pencils: Gill Fox; inks: Gill Fox	Wun Cloo (introduction); the Chief of Police; Jimmy
19	The Munitions Smuggling Case	comic story	7	script: Vern Henkel; pencils: Vern Henkel; inks: Vern Henkel	Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt
20	How Jimmy Got His Bike	comic story	1	letters: typeset	Jimmy; Jimmy's dad; Jimmy's mother

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Golden-Age Treasury #2	2003	On eBay ›
Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017 #[nn] ISBN 1-50670-355-0; 978-1-50670-355-8	2017	On eBay ›
The Complete Smash Comics: Volume 2 ISBN 978-1546728429	2017	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Golden-age paper is brittle. Ask about page suppleness and check edges for chips in the photos.
Check for trimmed edges, married covers, and clipped coupons - all common on books this old.
Confirm the indicia matches this plate; many golden-age titles changed names mid-run.

Series context

‹ #56 of 85#7 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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