I wonder if in some future day, there will arise another Headsman to carry on the awful work...! Stranger things have happened! 
Smash Comics #38 is an issue of the series Smash Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1942.
Synopsis for Midnight: "Riddle of the Caveman Menace"
Appearing in Midnight: "Riddle of the Caveman Menace"
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Synopsis for Espionage Starring Black X: "The Middle East"
Appearing in Espionage Starring Black X: "The Middle East"
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- Black Ogre
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- Tonga Bey
- Von Pap
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Synopsis for Bozo the Robot: "The Cornfield-McJug Feud"
Lem Cornfield and Cy McJug are feuding in the backwoods of Kentucky, but after realizing they've been at this for 30 years without getting anywhere, both separately decide to take a vacation to the big city. There, gang bosses "Scar" Maloin and "Shiv" Blades are planning to back a party in the upcoming elections that wants to bring back prohibition, so they can make a killing off of bootlegging again. Both are short of cash for such an endeavor and go for a walk to come up with an idea to raise some quick cash. Lem and Cy run into each other and try to shoot one another only to remember they don't have their guns. By chance they both run into Maloin and Blades, who the hillbillies try to hire to kill their rival. Hearing about a fight over the radio, Hugh Hazard swoops down wearing Bozo and sees Blades and Maloin engaged in mortal combat with each other and knocks them out with his robot fists. He's amazed when he hears about how the fight got started, and breaks it up by telling the hillbillies that by luring two master crooks into the open where he captured them, Lem and Cy did far more good together than they'd ever done as rivals. They call off their feud, but it breaks out again when Cy suggests they get some "food," much to Hugh's amusement.
Appearing in Bozo the Robot: "The Cornfield-McJug Feud"
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- Scar Maloin
- Shiv Blade
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- Lem Cornfield
- Cy McJug
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Synopsis for The Ray: "The Man of a Hundred Heads"
A dying man stumbles into Happy Terrill's office, whom he recognizes as a detective who was looking for a nefarious ax murderer called the Headsman. Happy prints a column that he's looking into some leads the detective gave him, even though he learned nothing, to try and lure the killer into coming to silence him. When the Headsman does indeed sneak into Happy's apartment to add the reporter's head to his collection, Happy uses the radiance from a flashlight to become the Ray and easily overwhelm Headsman, who falls out the window but catches himself on the side with his ax, then takes Sue hostage. Ray follows to the swamps outside town, where he finds a scene that makes it look as if Sue has been beheaded but kept alive. Ray grapples with Headsman again, and suddenly the killer's nerve breaks and he says he doesn't want to be a victim of his family's inherited bloodlust any more. In trying to flee he stumbles into a quicksand bog and is soon gone from sight. After finding out Sue's situation was only a clever deception and she's fine, Happy does a little research and finds a genealogical record showing a nefarious historical killer who looks just like his enemy. He wonders if such inherited bloodlust might strike again in someone else, someday.
Appearing in The Ray: "The Man of a Hundred Heads"
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- Headsman
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- Sue
- Detective Kincaid (Dies)
- Henry Gorgon (In a photograph only)
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- New York City
- nearby swamp
- nearby swamp
Synopsis for Yankee Eagle: "Men Marked for Death!"
Appearing in Yankee Eagle: "Men Marked for Death!"
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- Japanese Military (plenty die)
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Synopsis for The Jester: "Another Story"
Terwilliger J. Thump is an elderly kleptomaniac who unwittingly terrorizes a department store, but when McGinty recognizes him, knows he can't do anything because the man is the commissioner's uncle. Chuck Lane solves the issue by switching to the Jester and zipping in front of Thump any time he tries to lift something, warning him the police have orders to shoot the department store thief on sight. It seems this scare has cured Thump's urges, until he steals McGinty's badge...and his pants!
Appearing in The Jester: "Another Story"
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- Police Chief Hustace McGinty
- his cops
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- Terwilliger J. Thump (First appearance)
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- Quinopolis
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- Yankee Eagle
- Larry Noble, Yankee Eagle is not known to be related to or affiliated with Jerry Noble, Yankee Eagle.
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- The Midnight story received an article in the book The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Featuring the 50 Strangest Supervillains in the History of Comics
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Look at how sad this is making Batman. You did this.
