He used to say, "I've got my wealth in my hands," and that's all anyone knows. 
- — Inspector McGinty
Smash Comics #30 is an issue of the series Smash Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1942.
Synopsis for The Ray: "The Von Ribboncounter Affair"
Nazi spies conspire to sabotage the demonstration of a new bomber that's supposed to be able to break 700 MPH. They'll use a super-magnet to make it crash and seem to be a failure, so the project will be abandoned. Unfortunately for them, Happy Terrill and Bud are covering the story, and Bud happens trip and fall face-first in the dirt. While he's down there, he feels the vibrations of the magnet, which leads the two to the Nazis' secret hideout. The Ray foils their plans, but the Nazis are able to escape when he's distracted tending to a shot Bud. While their plan to spoil the demonstration failed, the Nazis attempt to flee with the plans, but the Ray rides a spotlight up to their escape plane and pummels them into submission.
Appearing in The Ray: "The Von Ribboncounter Affair"
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- Bud
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- Von Ribboncounter
- Adolph
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- experimental Army dive bomber
Synopsis for The Jester: "Speed Malone"
Speed Malone just died, and left nothing but an old house to his daughter. McGinty and Lane mull over how strange this is, and how Malone left a cryptic clue about where he hid all his money, but no-one ever found it. Malone's daughter comes by and asks for the police's help then, since the probate lawyer refuses to tell her where the house is until it's been fully modernized. McGinty agrees, but since it's far out in the country, he insists on Chuck going along to make sure she gets there. Chuck, finding the whole affair extremely bizarre and having no idea where the money to modernize the house could be coming from, agrees to go so he can look around. When a chandelier almost crushes them, Malone's daughter faints, allowing Chuck to freely change to the Jester, because someone obviously doesn't want snoopers around. In the course of beating up the crooked lawyer and his thugs, a suit of armor falls over and knocks one of them out. When the Jester rights it, the gauntlet falls off revealing Speed Malone's money hidden in the arm.
Appearing in The Jester: "Speed Malone"
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- Speed Malone's lawyer
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- Speed Malone's daughter
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Synopsis for Wildfire: "Big Tom's Oil Saboteurs"
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- Big Tom
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Synopsis for "Invisible Justice: The White Wizard and his Invisible Raiders"
Appearing in "Invisible Justice: The White Wizard and his Invisible Raiders"
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- White Wizard
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Synopsis for Midnight: "The Case of the Yehudi Murder"
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- Professor Craft
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Synopsis for Wings Wendall: "The Legions of the Red Menace"
Appearing in Wings Wendall: "The Legions of the Red Menace"
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- The Red Menace
- his legions
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Synopsis for Espionage Starring Black X: "U-Boats off California"
Appearing in Espionage Starring Black X: "U-Boats off California"
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- Batu
- Colonel Atwater
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Synopsis for "Bozo and the Defense Plant Hold-Up"
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Notes
- Also appearing in this issue of Smash Comics are:
- Rookie Rankin, art by Arthur F. Peddy
- The Purple Trio, art by Alex Blum
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