I'm afraid we'll accomplish nothing by prolonging this meeting so I move we adjourn for action .. c'mon Spinner! 
Smash Comics #37 is an issue of the series Smash Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1942.
Synopsis for Midnight: "Doc Wackey Goes Berserk!"
The mad scientist comes to collect on his bargain, where he injects Doc Wackey with a solution that gives him super-speed. Seeing him build a house and win a track meet, both in the blink of an eye, a gangster approaches Wackey with an offer of partnership. Soon Midnight and the mad scientist manage to catch up to Doc, but he's so fast all his words come out as a super-fast buzz, which they solve by going to a "make a record" kiosk and playing it back at super-low speed. He declares he's done with humanity and is getting into crime. Midnight takes the injection himself to catch Doc and return the loot from his robberies, then his friends manage to talk sense into him. After arresting Scull Duggery, Doc's speed injection wears off, returning things to normal.
Appearing in Midnight: "Doc Wackey Goes Berserk!"
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- Skull Duggery
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- The Professor
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Synopsis for Espionage Starring Black X and Batu: "Rescuing Papa"
Appearing in Espionage Starring Black X and Batu: "Rescuing Papa"
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- Peter Van Doorne
- his daughter, Tinka Van Doorne
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Synopsis for The Jester: "Tough Tony"
Officer Chuck Lane requests the judge to parole the district's toughest juvenile offender into his custody, hoping that this approach will lead him to some tire thieves. When he realizes the gang are a bunch of dirty backstabbers, while Officer Lane was really a symbol of justice like the Jester, Tony turns over a new leaf and helps catch his former compatriots.
Appearing in The Jester: "Tough Tony"
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- Inspector Mulligan
- Tough Tony
Antagonists:
- Dagger Joe
- Trigger
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Synopsis for Wildfire: "Dean of Darkness"
During a test of the city's blackout readiness, the Dean of Darkness kidnaps three volunteer Air Raid Wardens, and one of them is Carol Vance Martin. All three kidnapees are from wealthy families, and the Dean plans to hold them for ransom, a very bad idea, which quickly backfires on him. Carol takes out the Dean in her Wildfire identity, then sets a garbage fire that forces his two henchmen to flee. Carol knows which way they have to run, changes back into her Warden uniform, then ambushes and punches the hell out of these thugs, right in front of the other two A.R.Wardens. She's tired of being thought of as just an idle playgirl, and has now made her point.
Appearing in Wildfire: "Dean of Darkness"
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- Dean of Darkness
- two henchmen
Other Characters:
- two other volunteer Air Raid Wardens
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- Riverfront hideout of the Dean of Darkness
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Synopsis for Bozo the Robot: "The Kidnapping of Peter Percy Gotgelt III"
Appearing in Bozo the Robot: "The Kidnapping of Peter Percy Gotgelt III"
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- The Terrible Trio
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- Peter Percy Gotgelt III
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Synopsis for The Ray: "The Frozen Lands of the Midnight Sun"
Happy's puzzled by a ship that was wrecked with no crew in Newfoundland. Looking into it, he finds it's a broadcasting station for Nazis who use invisible infrared lights to secretly convey their information. Not invisible to the Ray, who's empowered by all light. One of them manages to escape, but the Ray thinks little of it since he managed to seize all of their plans and records. When American and British planes fly to Nazi-occupied Norway with an eye toward liberating it, the Germans are surprisingly ready for them. After charging up as the Ray because of the Aurora Borealis, he manages to devastate the ground forces repelling them. The one who warned the occupying forces turns out to be the agent the Ray let go the first time, because he has an uncanny ability to memorize map details, and simply recreated all of his cell's plans from memory.
Appearing in The Ray: "The Frozen Lands of the Midnight Sun"
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- Bud
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Synopsis for Wings Wendall: "The Undersea Wolf"
A U.S.Naval observation blimp on antisubmarine patrol spots a surfacing U-boat and bombs it, but also is damaged by gunfire from the sub's deck gun. One engine and some control surfaces are damaged; the airship starts to drop toward the surface. U-boat Captain Kroll and a life-raft full of submariners escape the bombed sub, position themselves under the blimp, and use the mooring lines to swarm aboard the gondola.
For some time afterward, U-boat crews in the Atlantic become more successful at penetrating allied convoys and sinking allied ships. Wings Wendall is dispatched to investigate; he and Spinner Benson go on antisubmarine patrol in a blimp. Spinner is unimpressed with this approach, until Wings explains how stealthy a blimp is, from a submarine's perspective. They find and follow a convoy, which they observe is already being shadowed by another U.S. blimp. Inside it are Captain Kroll and his men, wearing American uniforms and receiving position reports from the convoy. Wendall's crew's radioman overhears this, recognizes the security breach, and alerts Wings. Kroll sends a bogus radio message to throw Wendall's blimp off the trail; Wendall plays along by changing course, while carefully observing the other blimp. He observes a messenger pigeon being released, and the blimp follows the bird, which leads them to a tiny island, with a set of U-boat piers.
By this time, Kroll's blimp has caught up, and the crew opens fire on Wendall's airship. Spinner steers the blimp right into the enemy blimp, while Wings Wendall uses a mooring line to tarzan-swing from one gondola to the other. He kicks his way in thru a hatch, and punches out everybody inside. But while that went on, the entire wolfpack (four or more subs) has gotten underway, and is no doubt en route to attack the convoy. Wings and Spinner steer their blimps in pursuit. They overtake the wolfpack before it can close a trap on the convoy, and bombs it until every sub is wiped out.
Appearing in Wings Wendall: "The Undersea Wolf"
Featured Characters:
- Wings Wendall (Final appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Military Intelligence
- Spinner Benson (Final appearance)
Antagonists:
- Captain Kroll, the "Undersea Wolf"
- U-boat Base Commander, (wears a monocle) (Dies)
- Many German Sailors (die)
Other Characters:
- Joe, Radioman
Locations:
- Atlantic Ocean
- Tiny Island
- Washington, D.C.
- Military Intelligence Headquarters
Vehicles:
- Two U.S. Blimps
- German Submarine U-28 (Destroyed)
- German Squadron of U-Boats (all destroyed)
- Convoy of Cargo Ships
Synopsis for Marksman: "The Amazing Adventures of the Three Shadows"
The Marksman's team of international underground couriers is assembled, comprising three concentration camp escapees, one Czech, one Austrian, and one Pole.
Appearing in Marksman: "The Amazing Adventures of the Three Shadows"
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- Vorka
- The Three Shadows
Antagonists:
- Schtuper
Notes
- Espionage
- Introductory blurb for this issue's story bills it as "ESPIONAGE Starring Black X and Batu"
- Wildfire
- This is the final Golden Age appearance of Wildfire.
- She was originally intended to be a member of the All-Star Squadron, but DC vetoed the idea, as there was already a character called Wildfire active in another team book. Instead, a female heroine named Firebrand was introduced into the All-Star Squadron series.
- Last issue for Wings Wendall.
- He adds at minimum one more enemy submarine crew to his body count in this last episode.
- Captain Kroll, the "Undersea Wolf" is captured alive.
- This issue of Smash Comics also featured:
- Rookie Rankin: "A G-Man Is Loose Among Crooks", art by Arthur Peddy.
- Purple Trio: "Ghastly Web of Revenge", art by Alex Blum. This is the final appearance of The Purple Trio.
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