Spy Smasher #6 is an issue of the series Spy Smasher (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1942.
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Presidente Manco Largo (Single appearance)
- his corrupt cops and dagger men
- Admiral Royale Ricardo, DN (formerly Roy Richards, ex-USN) (reforms)
- Captain Kull (Single appearance; dies)
- his pro-Nazi crew (many die)
Other Characters:
- Rubio, fisherman
- Captain Carlo, naval volunteer
- 3 ship crews, political prisoners
Locations:
- Central America
- Dorado, a republic
- Lancho, the capital
- Dorado, a republic
Vehicles:
- Gyrosub
- Dorado's makeshift naval fleet
- U.S. tanker (Destroyed)
- 6 or more German U-boats (Destroyed)
- Corby's flagship
- Corby's fleet
- Corby's fleet
Synopsis for "Hideous Hideo"
Appearing in "Hideous Hideo"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Hideo (Apparent Death)
- five henchmen: Yuro, others (all die)
Other Characters:
- 4 high-ranking officers (all die)
- 1 pilot (Dies)
- 1 sentry (Dies)
- General James
Locations:
Animals:
- a dozen wolves
Vehicles:
- U.S. Army 4-engine transport plane (Destroyed)
- Gyrosub
- U.S. Ammunition Ship (Destroyed)
Synopsis for "The Ghost Squadron"
Appearing in "The Ghost Squadron"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Baron Von Kurtz (Apparent Death)
- Ghost Squadron
- fake Wentworth
- fake Kirby Collins
- fake Bill Denham
- fake Spy Smasher
- other fake dead U.S. pilots
Other Characters:
- Military Pilots: Brewster, others
- Major Rogers
Locations:
- Washington, D.C. Area
- U.S. Army Airbase
- Spy Smasher's Secret Hangar
- Armstrong's Apartment
- Gotham City
- Oil Refineries
Vehicles:
- Gyrosub
- four "Ghost Planes"
Synopsis for Thrilling Spy Tales: "One-Man War on the Zeppelins"
Appearing in Thrilling Spy Tales: "One-Man War on the Zeppelins"
Featured Characters:
- unknown Allied Secret Service agent
Supporting Characters:
- Commanding Secret Service Officer
- Secret Service agents
Antagonists:
- Herr von Scheer
- German Zeppelin Corps
- German Soldiers (one dies)
Locations:
- Zeppelin Base at Alhorn, Germany
- Secret Service Listening Station in England
- English Channel
Dates:
- early part of WWI
Vehicles:
- German Zeppellins (five destroyed)
Synopsis for "Virginia, Mother of Fighting Americans"
Appearing in "Virginia, Mother of Fighting Americans"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Admiral Corby
- Eve Corby
- Grandpappy Swire ex–C.S.A.
Antagonists:
- Baron Von Kurtz
- Lona
- Karl
- four thugs
Other Characters:
- U.S.Army Sgt. Robert Lee Swire
- Army Post Commander
- Soldiers
- two FBI agents
Locations:
- Southern Atlantic Coast
- Rebel Point
- Jeb Stuart Home For Confederate Veterans
- Rebel Point
- Virginia
- Army Post
- Army Prison
Notes
- "The Hideous Hideo", with cuts and contusions from being punched thru a closed window, and at least one bullet wound, is last seen stumbling out into an Alaskan blizzard. His fate is uncertain.
- Baron von Kurtz is still aboard his "ghost plane" when Spy Smasher leaps clear of it, and may still be aboard it when it crashes onto the ocean and sinks. His fate is uncertain.
- Alan Armstrong has a manor in northern Virginia, and an apartment in downtown Washington.
- "Virginia, Mother of Fighting Americans"
- Grandpappy Swire returns in this issue. He and his peg leg were first and last seen in Spy Smasher #4.
- Villain Karl wears a monocle.
- Baron von Kurtz turns out to be still alive, and in charge of Lona and Karl's spy operation.
- Also appearing in this issue of Spy Smasher were:
- "Death At the Launching" (text story) by Douglas Mann
- "True Spy Secrets" (nonfiction article on espionage incidents and techniques in comicbook format, 2 pages)
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