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| Year = 1942
  
| Year = 1942
 
| Publisher = Quality
  
| Publisher = Quality
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| Title = Smash Comics
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| Volume = 1
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| Issue = 34
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| Executive Editor = Everett M. Arnold
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| CoverArtist1 = Gill Fox
   
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| Quotation = RED FIRE! An acid vat!! Every morsel of FLESH eaten away! Now, the killer who killed th' killer has been killed !!
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| Executive Editor =
 
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| Speaker = [[David Clark (Quality Universe)|Midnight]]
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| CoverArtist1 =
 
   
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| Editor1_1 =
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| Editor1_1 = Gill Fox
 
| Writer1_1 =
 
| Writer1_1 =
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| Penciler1_1 =
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| Penciler1_1 = Lou Fine
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| Inker1_1 =
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| Inker1_1 = Lou Fine
 
| Colourist1_1 =
 
| Colourist1_1 =
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| Letterer1_1 =
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| StoryTitle1 = The Ray: "In Hungary"
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| Synopsis1 = Hungarian resistance fighters dress themselves in medieval armor, invade a Gestapo get-together, and kill a bunch of German officers, using medieval weapons. Bloody reprisals follow very quickly; many random civilians are lined up and shot.
   
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Happy Terrill's frantic editor needs this story, and yanks Happy out of Istanbul, to Hungary pronto, and on a fake passport at that. Bud also is along for the ride. Other reporters in Hungary haven't found out anything yet. Then Baron Von Fritz, riding in an open car, gets shot dead right outside the cafe where the reporters are huddled. This is the work of a nearby doorman, with a smoking pistol still in his pocket; Bud and Happy converse with this guy, and leave without telling on him. Happy telephones in this story fragment to his editor, then watches the doorman for more developments.
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| Quotation =
 
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| Speaker =
 
   
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That evening, the Gestapo shows up and takes the doorman away. Happy transforms himself into the Ray and follows them, to a castle on a cliff. The Nazis drag the doorman inside and get ready to torture him, but the Ray bursts in and rescues him, then whisks him away to hide in a Gypsy camp. The camp turns out to be a mobile base for the resistance movement, from which they coordinate sabotage projects all over Europe. The Ray volunteers to help, and flies off. He returns to town, changes back into Terrill, and goes straight to the Gestapo with news of an upcoming grain-burning project. Gestapo men check out his story, and even when it turns out to be true they don't trust Happy, until he encounters some resistance men on the street, and they attack him. This persuades the Germans that he's on the level.
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| StoryTitle1 =
 
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| Synopsis1 =
 
   
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That night, at the targeted grain field, the Germans have set a deadly ambush, but the Ray arrives ahead of the resistance arsonists, to warn them what's up. Meanwhile an open car full of foreign journalists, with Bud along, is en route to the field; Bud is despondant over Happy's apparent treachery. Ray's warning doesn't work out, and he punches out the resistance fighters, and steals their torches, then zooms over to the Hunyadi Granary and lights it up. He also encircles the German infantry unit with fire, and several of them are killed. Photographers show up and capture their doom. Bud is jubilant that Happy isn't a traitor after all. Happy is happy that he'll be returning to Turkey, where he was having a good time.
 
| Appearing1 =
 
| Appearing1 =
 
'''Featured Characters:'''
  
'''Featured Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[Happy Terrill (Quality Universe)|Ray]]}}
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* <br/>
  
 
'''Supporting Characters:'''
  
'''Supporting Characters:'''
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* <br/>
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* Bud
 
'''Villains:'''
  
'''Villains:'''
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* {{a|[[Nazi Party|Gestapo]]}}
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* <br/>
  
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** Baron Von Fritz {{dies}}
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** Occupation Army {{green|many die}}
 
'''Other Characters:'''
  
'''Other Characters:'''
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* Hungarian resistance fighters
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* <br/>
  
 
'''Locations:'''
  
'''Locations:'''
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* {{a|[[Budapest]]}}, occupied {{a|[[Hungary]]}}
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* <br/>
  
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* Castle on a cliff over the Danube
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* Gypsy camp
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* Granary near Hunyadi
  +
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| Writer2_1 =
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| Penciler2_1 = Alex Kotzky
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| Inker2_1 = Alex Kotzky
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| StoryTitle2 = Espionage Starring Black X: "Brandon's Betrayal"
  +
| Synopsis2 =
  +
| Appearing2 =
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'''Featured Characters:'''
  +
* {{a|[[Richard Spencer (Quality Universe)|Black X]]}}
  +
'''Supporting Characters:'''
  +
* Col Atwater
  +
* {{a|[[Batu (Quality Universe)|Batu]]}}
  +
'''Villains:'''
  +
* {{a|[[Imperial Japan|Japanese Occupation Troops]]}}
  +
* LCDR Brandon {{dies}}
  +
* his Japanese wife {{dies}}
  +
'''Other Characters:'''
  +
* Douglas MacArthur {{cameo}}
  +
* Colin P. Kelly {{cameo}}
  +
* a U.S. Marine from Brooklyn {{dies}}
  +
'''Locations:'''
  +
* {{a|[[Manila]]}}, the {{a|[[Philippines]]}}
  +
  +
| Writer3_1 =
  +
| Penciler3_1 = George Brenner
  +
| Inker3_1 = George Brenner
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| StoryTitle3 = Bozo the Robot: "The Gestapo In America"
  +
| Synopsis3 =
  +
| Appearing3 =
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'''Featured Characters:'''
  +
* {{a|[[Hugh Hazzard (Quality Universe)|Hugh Hazzard]]}}
  +
** {{a|[[Bozo the Iron Man (Quality Universe)|Bozo the Iron Man]]}}
  +
'''Antagonists:'''
  +
* {{a|[[Nazi Party|Gestapo boss Krontz]]}}
  +
** {{a|[[Nazi Party|Gestapo agent Carl]]}} {{dies}}
  +
** {{a|[[Nazi Party|other Gestapo agent]]}} {{dies}}
  +
** {{a|[[Nazi Party|Gestapo agent Fritz]]}} {{dies}}
  +
'''Other Characters:'''
  +
* Kelly's boss, War Dept.
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** Kelly, messenger {{dies}}
  +
'''Locations:'''
  +
* {{a|[[Washington, D.C.]]}}
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** War Department
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** 1st spy hideout
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** 2nd spy hideout
 
'''Items:'''
  
'''Items:'''
  +
* {{a|[[Bozo the Iron Man (Quality Universe)|Bozo the Robot]]}}
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* <br/>
  
  +
  +
| Writer4_1 =
  +
| Penciler4_1 = Alex Blum
  +
| Inker4_1 = Alex Blum
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| StoryTitle4 = The Purple Trio: "Action At the Auction"
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| Synopsis4 = At a War Relief art auction, Warren uses ventriloquism to juice up the prices of the paintings. <!-- Now how ethical is that? --> The auction host's butler, and two thugs, steal all the paintings at the end of the auction, and load them in a truck. Warren fools them into thinking they've had a tire blow out, they stop, and the Purple Trio apprehend them.
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| Appearing4 =
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'''Featured Characters:'''
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* The {{a|[[Purple Trio (Quality Universe)|Purple Trio]]}}:
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** Rocky Hill, strongman
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** Tiny Todd, midget
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** Warren, ventriloquist
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'''Villains:'''
  +
* Frazer's butler
  +
* two more hench
  +
'''Other Characters:'''
  +
* Frazer
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* art snobs
  +
'''Locations:'''
  +
* Frazer's office on Broad Street
  +
'''Items:'''
  +
* truckload of stolen paintings
 
'''Vehicles:'''
  
'''Vehicles:'''
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* <br/>
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* truck
   
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| Writer5_1 = Robert Turner
  +
| Penciler5_1 = Jim Mooney
  +
| Inker5_1 = Jim Mooney
  +
| StoryTitle5 = Wildfire: "Mad Merlin the Magician"
  +
| Synopsis5 =
  +
| Appearing5 =
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'''Featured Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[Carol Vance Martin (Quality Universe)|Wildfire]]}}
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'''Villains:'''
  +
* Mad Merlin <!-- no apparent magic moxie, no apparent relation to any other Merlin -->
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** his gang, in medieval armor
  +
'''Other Characters:'''
  +
* Anne Haynes
  +
* John Haynes
  +
'''Locations:'''
  +
* The Haynes's big old house in the mountains
  +
'''Items:'''
  +
* trunkful of gold coins
  +
'''Vehicles:'''
  +
* Carol's roadster
  +
  +
| Writer6_1 = Jack Cole
  +
| Penciler6_1 = Jack Cole
  +
| Inker6_1 = Jack Cole
  +
| Letterer6_1 = Jack Cole
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| StoryTitle6 = Midnight: "In Hollywood"
  +
| Synopsis6 =
  +
| Appearing6 =
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'''Featured Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[David Clark (Quality Universe)|Midnight]]}}
  +
'''Supporting Characters:'''
  +
* {{a|[[Gabby the Monkey (Quality Universe)|Gabby]]}}
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* {{a|[[Mortimer Wackey (Quality Universe)|Doc Wackey]]}}
  +
'''Villains:'''
  +
* insane make-up man
  +
'''Other Characters:'''
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* Joy Devine, actress {{dies}}
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* Buzzbe, movie director {{dies}}
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* Jones, movie cameraman {{dies}}
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* Thompson, agent {{dies}}
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* {{WP|Ann Sheridan}} {{Cameo}}
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* {{WP|Betty Grable}} {{Cameo}}
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* {{WP|Hedy Lamarr}} {{Cameo}}
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* {{WP|Myrna Loy}} {{Cameo}}
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* {{WP|Rita Hayworth}} {{Cameo}}
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* {{WP|Veronica Lake}} {{Cameo}}
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* {{WP|Lana Turner}} {{Mentioned}}
  +
'''Locations:'''
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* {{a|[[Hollywood]]}}
  +
'''Items:'''
  +
* Midnight's Vacuum Gun
  +
  +
| Writer7_1 = Vernon Henkel
  +
| Penciler7_1 = Vernon Henkel
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| Inker7_1 = Vernon Henkel
  +
| StoryTitle7 = Wings Wendall: "Dr. Reinhardt Missing!!"
  +
| Synopsis7 =
  +
| Appearing7 =
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'''Featured Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[Wings Wendall (Quality Universe)|Wings Wendall]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
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* {{WP|Military_Intelligence_Service_(United_States)|Military Intelligence}}
  +
** Spinner Benson
  +
'''Villains:'''
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* {{a|[[Nazi Party|Fieldherr Kunkle]]}} {{dies}}
  +
* {{a|[[Nazi Party|Major Pincer]]}} {{dies}}
  +
* Miss Reinhardt {{dies}}
  +
'''Other Characters:'''
  +
* Dr. Reinhardt {{dies}}
  +
'''Locations:'''
  +
* {{a|[[Germany]]}}
  +
'''Items:'''
  +
* Reinhardt's Formula for ''Helium X''
  +
'''Vehicles:'''
  +
* Allied 2-engine bomber {{destroyed}}
  +
* stolen German 1-engine fighter
  +
  +
| Writer8_1 = Ed Cronin
  +
| Penciler8_1 = Alex Koda
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| Inker8_1 = Irving Tirman
  +
| StoryTitle8 = The Marksman: "Captain Krass's Double"
  +
| Synopsis8 =
  +
| Appearing8 =
  +
'''Featured Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[Baron Povalski (Quality Universe)|Marksman, Major Hurtz]]}}
  +
'''Supporting Characters:'''
  +
* Vorka
  +
'''Villains:'''
  +
* {{a|[[Nazi Party|Occupation Officers]]}}
  +
** Captain Krass
  +
** Occupation Troops {{green|several are killed}}
  +
'''Other Characters:'''
  +
* John Powell
  +
'''Locations:'''
  +
* occupied {{a|[[Poland]]}}
  +
** Nazi Regional Headquarters, formerly Povalski Castle
  +
'''Vehicles:'''
  +
* English fighter plane
  +
* half dozen German motorcycles
  +
  +
| Writer9_1 = Paul Gustavson
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| Penciler9_1 = Paul Gustavson
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| Inker9_1 = Paul Gustavson
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| StoryTitle9 = The Jester: "Oscar Oople"
  +
| Synopsis9 =
  +
| Appearing9 =
  +
'''Featured Characters:'''
  +
* {{a|[[Charles Lane (Quality Universe)|Jester]]}}
  +
'''Supporting Characters:'''
  +
* McGinty
  +
'''Villains:'''
  +
* Oscar Oople
  +
** two thugs
  +
* Petunia
  +
'''Other Characters:'''
  +
* Terwilliger, jeweler
  +
'''Locations:'''
  +
* {{a|[[New York City]]}}
  +
** Tiffaties Jewelers
  +
'''Items:'''
  +
* Oople's telescoping high-tension walking cane
  +
* six million dollars worth of stolen diamonds
  +
  +
| Writer10_1 =
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| Penciler10_1 = Arthur F. Peddy
  +
| Inker10_1 = Arthur F. Peddy
  +
| StoryTitle10 = Rookie Rankin: "Bodyguard Botchup"
  +
| Synopsis10 =
  +
| Appearing10 =
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'''Featured Characters:'''
  +
* Rookie Rankin
  +
'''Supporting Characters:'''
  +
* Sarge
  +
'''Villains:'''
  +
* Mitzie, Curtis' secretary
  +
* Chopper
  +
* a butcher
  +
'''Other Characters
  +
* Lionel Curtis
  +
'''Locations:'''
  +
* City Hall
   
 
| Notes =
 
| Notes =
  +
* Carol Martin's friend Anne Haynes doesn't recognize Carol in her '''Wildfire''' identity. Wildfire's costume has no mask.
  +
* Also appearing in this issue of ''Smash Comics'' were:
  +
** "Archie O'Toole", art by John Devlin
  +
** Wun Cloo: "Stuffed Animals", art by Jack Cole
  +
** "The Cobra Test" (text story, featuring Jimmy Christian), by Robert M. Hyatt
 
| Trivia =
 
| Trivia =
 
| Recommended =
 
| Recommended =

Revision as of 10:33, 5 September 2020

"The Ray: "In Hungary"": Hungarian resistance fighters dress themselves in medieval armor, invade a Gestapo get-together, and kill a bunch of German officers, using medieval weapons. Bloody reprisals follow very quickly; many random civilians are lined up and shot.

Quote1 RED FIRE! An acid vat!! Every morsel of FLESH eaten away! Now, the killer who killed th' killer has been killed !! Quote2
— Midnight

Smash Comics #34 is an issue of the series Smash Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1942.

Synopsis for The Ray: "In Hungary"

Hungarian resistance fighters dress themselves in medieval armor, invade a Gestapo get-together, and kill a bunch of German officers, using medieval weapons. Bloody reprisals follow very quickly; many random civilians are lined up and shot.

Happy Terrill's frantic editor needs this story, and yanks Happy out of Istanbul, to Hungary pronto, and on a fake passport at that. Bud also is along for the ride. Other reporters in Hungary haven't found out anything yet. Then Baron Von Fritz, riding in an open car, gets shot dead right outside the cafe where the reporters are huddled. This is the work of a nearby doorman, with a smoking pistol still in his pocket; Bud and Happy converse with this guy, and leave without telling on him. Happy telephones in this story fragment to his editor, then watches the doorman for more developments.

That evening, the Gestapo shows up and takes the doorman away. Happy transforms himself into the Ray and follows them, to a castle on a cliff. The Nazis drag the doorman inside and get ready to torture him, but the Ray bursts in and rescues him, then whisks him away to hide in a Gypsy camp. The camp turns out to be a mobile base for the resistance movement, from which they coordinate sabotage projects all over Europe. The Ray volunteers to help, and flies off. He returns to town, changes back into Terrill, and goes straight to the Gestapo with news of an upcoming grain-burning project. Gestapo men check out his story, and even when it turns out to be true they don't trust Happy, until he encounters some resistance men on the street, and they attack him. This persuades the Germans that he's on the level.

That night, at the targeted grain field, the Germans have set a deadly ambush, but the Ray arrives ahead of the resistance arsonists, to warn them what's up. Meanwhile an open car full of foreign journalists, with Bud along, is en route to the field; Bud is despondant over Happy's apparent treachery. Ray's warning doesn't work out, and he punches out the resistance fighters, and steals their torches, then zooms over to the Hunyadi Granary and lights it up. He also encircles the German infantry unit with fire, and several of them are killed. Photographers show up and capture their doom. Bud is jubilant that Happy isn't a traitor after all. Happy is happy that he'll be returning to Turkey, where he was having a good time.

Appearing in The Ray: "In Hungary"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Bud

Villains:

  • Gestapo
    • Baron Von Fritz (Dies)
    • Occupation Army (many die)

Other Characters:

  • Hungarian resistance fighters

Locations:

  • Budapest, occupied Hungary
  • Castle on a cliff over the Danube
  • Gypsy camp
  • Granary near Hunyadi


Synopsis for Espionage Starring Black X: "Brandon's Betrayal"


Appearing in Espionage Starring Black X: "Brandon's Betrayal"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Villains:

Other Characters:

  • Douglas MacArthur (Cameo)
  • Colin P. Kelly (Cameo)
  • a U.S. Marine from Brooklyn (Dies)

Locations:

Synopsis for Bozo the Robot: "The Gestapo In America"


Appearing in Bozo the Robot: "The Gestapo In America"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • Kelly's boss, War Dept.
    • Kelly, messenger (Dies)

Locations:

Items:

Synopsis for The Purple Trio: "Action At the Auction"

At a War Relief art auction, Warren uses ventriloquism to juice up the prices of the paintings. The auction host's butler, and two thugs, steal all the paintings at the end of the auction, and load them in a truck. Warren fools them into thinking they've had a tire blow out, they stop, and the Purple Trio apprehend them.

Appearing in The Purple Trio: "Action At the Auction"

Featured Characters:

  • The Purple Trio:
    • Rocky Hill, strongman
    • Tiny Todd, midget
    • Warren, ventriloquist

Villains:

  • Frazer's butler
  • two more hench

Other Characters:

  • Frazer
  • art snobs

Locations:

  • Frazer's office on Broad Street

Items:

  • truckload of stolen paintings

Vehicles:

  • truck

Synopsis for Wildfire: "Mad Merlin the Magician"


Appearing in Wildfire: "Mad Merlin the Magician"

Featured Characters:

Villains:

  • Mad Merlin
    • his gang, in medieval armor

Other Characters:

  • Anne Haynes
  • John Haynes

Locations:

  • The Haynes's big old house in the mountains

Items:

  • trunkful of gold coins

Vehicles:

  • Carol's roadster

Synopsis for Midnight: "In Hollywood"


Appearing in Midnight: "In Hollywood"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Villains:

  • insane make-up man

Other Characters:

Locations:

Items:

  • Midnight's Vacuum Gun

Synopsis for Wings Wendall: "Dr. Reinhardt Missing!!"


Appearing in Wings Wendall: "Dr. Reinhardt Missing!!"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Villains:

Other Characters:

  • Dr. Reinhardt (Dies)

Locations:

Items:

  • Reinhardt's Formula for Helium X

Vehicles:

  • Allied 2-engine bomber (Destroyed)
  • stolen German 1-engine fighter

Synopsis for The Marksman: "Captain Krass's Double"


Appearing in The Marksman: "Captain Krass's Double"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Vorka

Villains:

Other Characters:

  • John Powell

Locations:

  • occupied Poland
    • Nazi Regional Headquarters, formerly Povalski Castle

Vehicles:

  • English fighter plane
  • half dozen German motorcycles

Synopsis for The Jester: "Oscar Oople"


Appearing in The Jester: "Oscar Oople"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • McGinty

Villains:

  • Oscar Oople
    • two thugs
  • Petunia

Other Characters:

  • Terwilliger, jeweler

Locations:

Items:

  • Oople's telescoping high-tension walking cane
  • six million dollars worth of stolen diamonds

Synopsis for Rookie Rankin: "Bodyguard Botchup"


Appearing in Rookie Rankin: "Bodyguard Botchup"

Featured Characters:

  • Rookie Rankin

Supporting Characters:

  • Sarge

Villains:

  • Mitzie, Curtis' secretary
  • Chopper
  • a butcher

Other Characters

  • Lionel Curtis

Locations:

  • City Hall

Notes

  • Carol Martin's friend Anne Haynes doesn't recognize Carol in her Wildfire identity. Wildfire's costume has no mask.
  • Also appearing in this issue of Smash Comics were:
    • "Archie O'Toole", art by John Devlin
    • Wun Cloo: "Stuffed Animals", art by Jack Cole
    • "The Cobra Test" (text story, featuring Jimmy Christian), by Robert M. Hyatt



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