Smash Comics # 42 (April 1943)
Midnight feature (Presenting Midnight the World's Greatest Detective! And the Second Best...Sniffer Snoop!)
This baleful issue introduces a character that I consider the most rage-inducing in the Midnight pantheon, Sniffer Snoop. Imagine someone inept, arrogant, and useless and you've got Sniffer Snoop. He was the animated incarnation of the Dunning-Krueger Effect. As exhibit A in my prosecution, I point you to Snoop's letter of introduction.
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| I'm not sure the writer thought through the explanation for how Sniffer found Midnight. If he did so by reading Smash, then that means the world of Smash is our world, right? But if that's the case, then wouldn't everyone who read Smash know Midnight's "secret" identity? |
After he invades our hero's life, Snoop brings along his pet polar bear cub Hot Foot (where'd this doofus acquire a polar bear cub? Who knows?)
After being a real jerk to our classic trio, Snoop gets offended and storms off. (This is a high point of the story, wherein one might entertain the futile hope that Sniffer will never be seen again. Alas, dear reader, you are not so fortunate.)
Ambling through Big City in an envious stupor, Snoop believes he's hit upon a brilliant idea to put Midnight in his place.
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| Well, I can't imagine any way that this could possibly go wrong. |
In the first example of the dumb luck Snoop was to become famous for, the world's most-annoying detective stumbles across a dead body in the museum (that is...y'know...after committing felony breaking and entering).
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