Spy Smasher Vol 1 4

""The Crime of Pearl Harbor"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

"The Crime of Pearl Harbor"
Cover
Spy Smasher Vol 1 #4
April, 1942
Publisher	Fawcett Publications
Executive Editor	Ralph Daigh
Cover Artists	Irvin Steinberg
"The Crime of Pearl Harbor"
Pencilers	Emil Gershwin
Inkers	Emil Gershwin
Editors	Ed Herron
"The Man In the Iron Mask"
Writers	Otto Binder
Pencilers	Emil Gershwin
Inkers	Emil Gershwin
Thrilling Spy Tales: "George Washington, Hope of the Patriots"
Editors	Ed Herron
"Old Soldiers March Again"
Editors	Ed Herron
"The Stolen Battleship"
Pencilers	Emil Gershwin
Inkers	Emil Gershwin
Previous Issue	Spy Smasher # 3
Next Issue	Spy Smasher # 5

Funny how a good poke makes your makeup jump away from you!

— Spy Smasher

Spy Smasher #4 is an issue of the series Spy Smasher (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1942.

Appearing in "The Crime of Pearl Harbor"

Featured Characters:

• Spy Smasher

Supporting Characters:

• Eve Corby
• Admiral Corby

Antagonists:

• Imperial Japan
• Hideki Tojo
  • his diplomats: Envoy Kurusu, Captain Hidoo
    • Embassy Attaches and Bodyguards
  • Commander Osaki (Dies)
    • his giant submarine crew (all die)
  • Japanese Navy & Air force

Other Characters:

• U.S. Secretary of State

Locations:

• Tokyo, Japan
• Washington, D.C.
  • Corby Mansion
  • Japanese Embassy
• Hawaii

Dates:

• 5 Dec ~ 8 Dec, 1941

Vehicles:

• Gyrosub
• Japanese Giant Submarine (Destroyed)
  

Appearing in "The Man In the Iron Mask"

Featured Characters:

• Spy Smasher

Supporting Characters:

• Eve Corby
• Admiral Corby

Antagonists:

• Adolf Hitler
• Man in the Iron Mask (First appearance) (Apparent Death)

Other Characters:

• Smithers (construction foreman)
  • construction workers (many die)

Locations:

• Washington, D.C. area
  • Castle Fenmore (converted into Fort Corby)

Items:

• two iron mask helmets

Vehicles:

• Gyrosub
  

Appearing in Thrilling Spy Tales: "George Washington, Hope of the Patriots"

Featured Characters:

• George Washington

Supporting Characters:

• General Lafayette
• Colonel Jameson
• Major Tallmadge
• Lieutenant Allen

Antagonists:

• General Clinton
• Major Andre (Dies)
• Benedict Arnold

Other Characters:

• Nathan Hale (Dies)
• soldiers

Locations:

• New York
  • New York City
  • West Point

Dates:

• September 1780
  

Appearing in "Old Soldiers March Again"

Featured Characters:

• Spy Smasher

Supporting Characters:

• Eve Corby
• Admiral Corby

Antagonists:

• Hintz
• other saboteur
• Doctor Marston impersonator
  • fake Confederate henchmen

Other Characters:

• Granpappy Swire, ex–C.S.A.

Locations:

• Southern Atlantic Coast
  • Rebel Point
    • Naval Experimental Pier (damaged)
    • Jeb Stuart Home For Confederate Veterans
      

Appearing in "The Stolen Battleship"

Featured Characters:

• Spy Smasher

Supporting Characters:

• Eve Corby
• Admiral Corby

Antagonists:

• Baron von Stuka
  • his crew

Other Characters:

• Mike, Corby's civilian co-worker

Locations:

• New York Harbor

Items:

• Von Stuka's trick walking-stick

Vehicles:

• Greek freight steamship
• newly-built U.S. battleship
• Armstrong's yacht
• Gyrosub

Notes

• "The Crime of Pearl Harbor" is a flashback (set in Dec 1941), from "current" Spy Smasher continuity (set in 1942).
  • The principal villains in "The Crime of Pearl Harbor" are drawn from photos and meant to indicate specific, real-world diplomats, and Admiral Tojo, and others.
  • Spy Smasher gets head-konked unconscious with a belaying pin.
  • A Japanese giant submarine is destroyed.
• In "Man in the Iron Mask", Eve Corby knows Spy Smasher's secret identity but despite abundant evidence, Admiral Corby somehow does not.
  • Although Spy Smasher believes the Man in the Iron Mask to be dead at the end of the story, he survives and returns in All Hero Comics #1.
• "Old Soldiers March Again": Grandpappy Swire will return in Spy Smasher #6.
• In "The Stolen Battleship", Baron von Stuka wears a monocle.
• Also featured in this issue of Spy Smasher were:
  • full-page ad for the Spy Smasher serial, from Republic Pictures.
  • Adventures in Stamps: "The Stamp That Moved A Canal"
  • "Murder Tests a Bomber" (text story)

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Spy Smasher series
• Images from Spy Smasher Vol 1 4

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