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Smash Comics 14

SMASH COMICS #14

Cover Date: September 1940
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Gill Fox


Story: "The Legion of Living Bombs" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWill Eisner
ArtDan Zolnerowich
LetteringDan Zolnerowich
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Black X

Supporting Character(s):

Batu

Villain(s):

Madame Doom (next in issue #20)
Count Mirov (first appearance; wants to kill attendees to a conference to take control of South America; probably dies)
Living Bombs (first appearance; zealots who drink a potion that allows them to explode; all die)

Location(s):

New York City, NY
Washington, DC

Comment(s):

Eisner and Zolnerowich credited as Erwin.


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Second Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryPaul Gustavson
ArtPaul Gustavson
LetteringPaul Gustavson
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Magno

Villain(s):

Professor Abbot and his gang (first appearance for all; ousted Physics professor of Stamton College; creates a paralysis ray; dies)


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Third Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryVernon Henkel
ArtVernon Henkel
LetteringVernon Henkel
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Wings Wendall (poses as a newspaper reporter)

Villain(s):

An invading nation south of Tronvik (first appearance for all; probably Nazis)

Location(s):

Tronvik (first appearance; a small Scandinavian country)


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Fourth Story: "The Ray" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWill Eisner
ArtLou Fine
LetteringLou Fine
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Ray (Lanford "Happy" Terril; first appearance, a reporter for the (Philadelphia) Telegraph; becomes altered by "cosmic rays")

Villain(s):

Anton Rox and his gang (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Professor Styne (first appearance; a scientist; later revealed to be working with RONOL; also invents an explosive gas)
Light Entity (revealed to be behind the scenes in ...)

Comment(s):

This story takes place in April, 1939. A retelling of this story in Ray Vol. 2 #9 places it at a later date (December 7, 1941), which is too late and must be considered to take place in an alternate universe, but some version of that flashback did occur in the DCU.


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Fifth Story: "Invisible Justice" (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryArt Pinajian
ArtArt Pinajian
LetteringArt Pinajian
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Invisible Justice

Villain(s):

Darke (first appearance; a violent mine owner; dies)

Location(s):

A Pacific Island

Comment(s):

Art Pinajian credited as Art Gordon.


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryVernon Henkel
ArtVernon Henkel
LetteringVernon Henkel
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Chic Carter

Villain(s):

Grayson (first appearance; an explorer who goes insane and captures men to work a gold mine; dies)

Location(s):

Yakut, Canada


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Seventh Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtAlex Blum
LetteringAlex Blum
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Purple Trio
Rocky Hill (dresses up as a rug merchant)
Tiny Todd (dresses up as a little girl and a rug merchant)
Warren (dresses up as Tiny's nanny and a rug merchant)

Villain(s):

Spies (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Warren's Uncle Jim (first appearance; owns a steamship company)

Location(s):

Dardanelles (a strait going through Northern Turkey)

Comment(s):

Alex Blum credited as S. M. Regi.


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Eighth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGeorge Brenner
ArtGeorge Brenner
LetteringGeorge Brenner
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Hugh Hazzard (rides inside Bozo and uses a remote to control him)
Bozo the Iron Man

Villain(s):

an unnamed scientist (first appearance; uses a "Thyroid Serum" to animate a large cadaver; dies)
Brutus (first appearance; a giant cadaver that was animated; destroyed)

Comment(s):

George E. Brenner credited as Wayne Reid.


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