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Issue Details

Issue #76
Published July 1946
Cover Price 0.10
Editing Virginia Provisiero

Cover Details

Characters Captain Marvel; Spy Smasher (inset).
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Ice Follies"

Characters Captain Marvel (Billy Batson).
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder

10 page Captain Marvel story "The Subway Gold Rush"

Characters Captain Marvel (Billy Batson).
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder

6 page Ibis the Invincible story "The Flying Dutchman"

Characters Prince Ibis; Taia.
Genre occult; superhero

5 page Golden Arrow story "The Psychological Angle"

Characters Golden Arrow
Genre western
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska

2 page text story "Bank Robbery"

Genre crime
Script Cal Ranger (signed)
Letters typeset

6 page Spy Smasher story "Introduces Crime Smasher"

Characters Spy Smasher (Alan Armstrong); Crime Smasher (Alan Armstrong); Admiral Corby; Eve Corby; Jaspar Jaww (villain).
Synopsis With the war over, Spy Smasher retires. But Alan Armstrong discovers that crime hasn't taken a holiday when some thugs steal the plans for his Gyro-Sub that he plans to donate to the Smithsonian Institution.
Genre spy; superhero
Pencils Al Carreno
Inks Al Carreno
Notes Spy Smasher becomes Crime Smasher. Art revision from Ken Bald to Carreno, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-18-09.
Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #75 (2008)

Half page The Culture Corner filler "How to Contemplate the Back of Your Pate"

Characters Croucher K. Conk
Genre humor
Script Basil Wolverton
Pencils Basil Wolverton
Inks Basil Wolverton
Colors Basil Wolverton
Reprinted in Culture Corner, The (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) #[nn]