Ohhh, little boys who like to play with fire! That's my favorite game too! 
- — Wildfire
Smash Comics #27 is an issue of the series Smash Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1941.
Synopsis for The Ray: "The Atom Smasher"
The Ray battles spies who have a mobile atom-smasher.
Appearing in The Ray: "The Atom Smasher"
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- Bud
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- Unnamed Major (Dies)
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- Camp Reade
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- Atom Smasher
Synopsis for Espionage Starring Black X: "Good Neighborliness"
Appearing in Espionage Starring Black X: "Good Neighborliness"
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- Batu
- Colonel Atwater
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Synopsis for The Jester: "The Debutante's Masquerade Ball"
Officer Lane's guarding the door at a debutante's ball, but Purdy Stone and his gang prove not to be gatecrashers, they have engraved invitations to be let in. Extremely suspicious, Lane slinks away to become the Jester. The only people he stands out to at the masquerade ball are the Stone gang, who are indeed there to rob the members of high society. The Jester beats them up, and McGinty shows up just in time for one of the crimefighter's trademark rubber balls to hit him in the face as the Jester makes a dramatic exit.
Appearing in The Jester: "The Debutante's Masquerade Ball"
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- Sergent McGinty
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- Purdy Stone
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- Mrs. Van Horton
- Lady Thomas
- Jean Waldorf
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Synopsis for Wildfire: "The Fire Cult"
The Fire Devil and his gang, equipped with an armored car and an artillery-sized flame-thrower, and striking by night, set fire to tiny Pleasantville, then leave. They'll be back, with a few demands. In the next town, Carol Vance Martin is awakened by a bad dream, spots the distant fire, and blazes into action as Wildfire. She arrives to find the understaffed and ill-equipped fire department overwhelmed by the size of the multiple fires, but Wildfire quickly pulls all the fire out of all the houses, forms it into a large ball, and drops it into the nearby river. The town's mayor tells Wildfire about the armored car, then gets a phone call from the Fire Devil, who wants $50,000. The Mayor blows him off, so the gang piles back into their armored car and returns for a second attack. Wildfire intercepts them; they try to shoot her with the flame-thrower; she turns that against them, then grabs their vehicle and flings it across a field, to smash against a big tree. They all survive that crash, pile out, and start shooting, but that's futile against her Fire Shield; she conjures up a big fire hand which yanks them away (apparently un-burned) to the police station.
Appearing in Wildfire: "The Fire Cult"
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- The Fire-Devil
- three henchmen
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- Pleasantville, (a small town near Carol Martin's home town)
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- flame-thrower armored car
Synopsis for Midnight: "The Ghost of Robin Hood"
A killer dressed as Robin Hood stalks the night, murdering fifteen millionaires in two weeks! Midnight tries to lure him out by substituting himself for a millionaire ordered to pay a fortune or die, but when the hero's shot Gabby gives the ruse away by talking and saying Midnight's name (he'd survived by wearing a corked under-armor vest). Robin escapes in his car while Midnight and Gabby borrow one to pursue him, driving after him on the wheel rims after their tires are blown off by tacks. After getting caught but getting the upper hand when Gabby distracts him, "Robin Hood" is unmasked as a former millionaire getting revenge on other rich men because all his wealth had been stolen by a crooked business partner.
Appearing in Midnight: "The Ghost of Robin Hood"
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- Ghost of Robin Hood
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- Van Topps
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Synopsis for Wings Wendall: "The Bacteria Shipment"
Appearing in Wings Wendall: "The Bacteria Shipment"
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- Military Intelligence
- Spinner Benson
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- Captain Kargas
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Synopsis for Invisible Justice: "The White Wizard"
Appearing in Invisible Justice: "The White Wizard"
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- White Wizard
- Several "Shock Guards"
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- Dr. Bond
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Synopsis for Bozo the Robot: "The Super Explosive"
Appearing in Bozo the Robot: "The Super Explosive"
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Notes
- Also appearing in this issue of Smash Comics were:
- Purple Trio: "Another Story"
- Rookie Rankin: "Police Story"
- The Jester undergoes some changes as of this issue.
- The skull logo on his costume is gone.
- Inspector Mulligan becomes McGinty.
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