Number 2095: Midnight meets Gabby

Gabby is a talking monkey. Gabby got the ability to speak after a series of operations by a beautiful woman known only as Miss O’Day. Gabby becomes the partner of crime fighter, Midnight, but Miss O’Day...she does not fare so well.

Dave Clark, radio announcer, was Midnight. Midnight, drawn by Jack Cole, looked like another Quality Comics character wearing a blue suit and a domino mask, the Spirit.

This is the original appearance of Gabby. Another of Midnight’s cronies, Doc Wackey, came along a few issues later. Midnight gives comic art fans another reason to appreciate Jack Cole and his special art of cartooning. Herein is a crimefighter story made much more fun by Cole’s great gifts for comic exaggeration.

From Smash Comics #21 (1941):

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