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Smash Comics 2

SMASH COMICS #2

Cover Date: September 1939
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1939-07-19

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Cover Credits:


Story: "Espionage!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWill Eisner
ArtWill Eisner
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Black Ace

Supporting Character(s):

Batu
Colonel Atwater

Villain(s):

Dynamo and Duke (first appearance for both; two crooks who steal the X-Beam and plan on selling it to either Japan or Russia; both die)

Other Character(s):

Ellis Cravin (first appearance; inventor of the X-Beam, which will bring down airplanes)

Location(s):

New York City, NY
Langley Field, VA
Hong Kong, China


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Second Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGeorge Brenner
ArtGeorge Brenner
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Hugh Hazzard (installs mechanisms in the Iron Man that allow it to fly)
Bozo the Iron Man

Supporting Character(s):

Commissioner Hunt

Villain(s):

Gyp Catrone and his gang (first appearance for all; kidnap a banker's daughter)


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Third Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryArt Pinajian
ArtArt Pinajian
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Invisible Hood (now has an invisible costume)

Villain(s):

Garrick Spade and his gang (first appearance for all; dies)

Other Character(s):

Professor Hans Van Dorn (first appearance; a chemist who invents an invisibility formula; applies it to Hood's costume, rendering him invisible; dies)

Location(s):

Littleton, PA


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryVernon Henkel
ArtVernon Henkel
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Chic Carter

Supporting Character(s):

Pop
Inspector Monahan (first appearance; NYPD Inspector)

Location(s):

New York City, NY
Atlantic Ocean


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryVernon Henkel
ArtVernon Henkel
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Wings Wendall

Villain(s):

Spies (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Mitchel Field, Long Island, NY
New York City, NY


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