Smash! comic books issue 11

Issue #11

Cover art by Gill Fox. In Finland starring Espionage Starring Black X, script and art by Will Eisner [as Erwin]; Continued from last issue: Black X smuggles Tommy, the Commissioner's son back from Russia to Finland where he can get passage for them back to America. Chic Carter story, script and art by Vernon Henkel. Abdul the Arab story, script and art by Bob Powell [as Powell Roberts]. The Mystery of the Luminous Eyes starring Captain Cook of Scotland Yard, script and art by William A. Smith. Wings Wendall story, script and art by Vernon Henkel. Invisible Justice story, script and art by Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon]. Bucky Walters-Sportraits page by Gill Fox. Sweet Snare starring John Law, script and art by Harry Francis Campbell. Clip Chance at Cliffside story, script and art by George Brenner. Flash Fulton story, script and art by Paul Gustavson. Hugh Hazard and His Iron Man story, script and art by George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Tom McNamara and others. One of Fawcett's most popular superheroes, Spy Smasher fights saboteurs, fifth columnists, Quislings and collaborators during WWII. In South America, Spy Smasher realizes that Vasquez has been kidnapped and replaced by an Axis imposter. Spy Smasher investigates "haunted" defense plants, where he sees strange ghostly shapes and machines moving of their own accord. A mysterious soldier of fortune with no homeland begins to work for the Axis, in a story that features a Nazi-punching two-page opening spread. The Phantom Machines!; Menace over South America!; The Demlins; The Man Without a Flag!; Dead Mans Vengeance; The Battle-Scarred Cloak! Final issue of the series; Spy Smasher's adventures continued in Whiz Comics, where he became Crime Smasher after the war, and had a one-issue series under that title. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by A. C. Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Max Plaisted, Adolphe Barreaux and Gene Leslie. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Reporter Ray Hale suspects foul play when a rival reporter scoops him on a woman's murder, in a story with plentiful good-girl art. Gail Ford goes undercover as a gangster's moll, in a story more like the violent pre-Code crime comics of other publishers. Sally The Sleuth and "The Chief" pretend to be psychic detectives to find out if an elderly heiress is really being haunted. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Muscling-In to Doom; Sally the Sleuth: Ghostly Quest; Ray Hale, News Ace; Death Is the Prize; The Nemesis of Evil; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: The Trap For a Booby. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Version with full color back cover. Spy Smasher stars in "Once a Navy Man, Always a Navy Man," "Virginia, Mother of Fighting Americans," and "The Island of Whanno!" This comic measures approximately 5" X 4" and features 34 pages in black, white, and red. Also features full color cover. Listed as Mighty Midget Comics in Overstreet.

Version with War Bond stamp on an otherwise blank back cover. Spy Smasher stars in "Once a Navy Man, Always a Navy Man," "Virginia, Mother of Fighting Americans," and "The Island of Whanno!" This comic measures approximately 5" X 4" and features 34 pages in black, white, and red. Also features full color cover. Listed as Mighty Midget Comics in Overstreet.

Dick Tracy in Smashing the Famon Racket (1938 Whitman BLB) #11, 3 3/4" x 3 1/2", softcover, 130 pages. Buddy Book-ice cream premium, by Chester Gould