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| Name | Smash Comics 25 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Gill Fox |
| Inks | Gill Fox |
| First Line | The Ray in another daring adventure |
| Advertisement | Quaker Puffed Wheat (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | Boys! Girls! So easy to get exciting things free with guarantee seals from the new Quaker Puffed Wheat and Rice "Sparkies" |
| Comic Story | Mitch Mouldin / The Ray (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | A gang member kidnaps some reporters and brings them to his boss. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Bud; Mitch Mouldin; Mike; Snapper; Mr. Humpel |
| Pencils | Reed Crandall (signed) |
| Inks | Reed Crandall (signed) |
| First Line | Banks are looted... |
| Notes | Art credits revised from Lou Fine to Reed Crandall by Craig Delich 2011-27-11 per article/interview with Gill Fox in Alter-Ego #12 (January, 2002). The splash page for this story was reprinted in B/W. |
| Story | Archie O'Toole (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The king has to raise $7.65 for the national treasury. |
| Genre | Humor; Children |
| Characters | King Archie O'Toole; Jerk |
| Script | John Devlin |
| Pencils | John Devlin |
| Inks | John Devlin |
| First Line | The national treasury is lower than the seat of a midget's pants! |
| Comic Story | Liver-Lip McGaw / Midnight (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doc Wackey creates a new invention he calls the Visoscope, with which he could survey any part of the city......an invention useful to Midnight in locating a nefarious villain. |
| Genre | Adventure; Superhero |
| Characters | Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Liver-Lip McGraw (villain) |
| Script | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Letters | Jack Cole (signed) |
| First Line | In all the history of crime never was there so cruel an individual as Liver-Lip McGaw! |
| Comic Story | Captain Krawl / Wings Wendall (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Krawl captures a battleship using a submarine and gas. |
| Genre | Adventure; Aviation |
| Characters | Spinner Benson; Captain Krawl; Captain Bennett |
| Script | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Pencils | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Inks | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| First Line | America works night and day to match weapons of foreign powers, to keep this country free of aggression.. and no patriotic sentinel works harder than Wings Wendall.. |
| Notes | Wears a costume in this story. |
| Story | Invisible Justice (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hooded men rob the rich of their treasures. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Phineas Barr; John Thorp; Joan Thorp; Tom Slade |
| Script | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| Pencils | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| Inks | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| First Line | A hazy terror of the glens brings chilly fears to those of Oakwood... |
| Comic Story | Sabotage at the Navy Yard / The Jester (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mulligan is convinced the Jester is bad when he goes to arrest a man and the Jester shoves him in the river. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Mulligan; Mike |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| First Line | Roaring mad and soaking wet, detective Mulligan rushes into his office at police headquarters, followed by several policemen... |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
| Comic Story | Basil's Gang / Espionage Starring Black X (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Black X disguises himself as Old Basil and receives some photostats from the spies. |
| Genre | Spy |
| Characters | Batu; Colonel Atwater; Max; Hugo; Heinz |
| Script | Dick French (signed) |
| Pencils | Witmer Williams |
| Inks | Witmer Williams |
| First Line | Black X is disguised as Old Basil, a spy now imprisoned |
| Notes | Williams is credited on drawing this feature. Writer revision from Eisner to French by Craig Delich. Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43). |
| Comic Story | First Night / Rookie Rankin (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rankin is ordered to arrest kids watching parked cars. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Nightstick Kane; Jimmy; Mr. Depopoloss |
| Pencils | Art Peddy (signed) |
| Inks | Art Peddy (signed) |
| First Line | Hmm...Who's that handsome policeman? |
| Story | Wun Cloo (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Wun meets a crook worth $1,000 for capture. |
| Genre | Humor; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Wun Cloo (detective); Poison Allity |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| First Line | Pardon, pal, but could you tell me what that says about me? |
| Comic Story | Introducing Wildfire / Wildfire (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Young Carol Martin is given wondrous powers by the Lord of Fire, which she uses to combat the un-American activities of a group which has kidnapped a famed U.S. Senator, trying to get him to admit to the newspapers that America will not come to the aid of other democracies. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Frank Vance (Carol's father, death); Marie (Carol's maid); Lord of Fire; Mr. John Martin; Mrs. Martin; Senator Raymond; Heinrich (villain); Dolph (villain); Green Masked Bund (villains) |
| Script | Robert Turner |
| Pencils | Jim Mooney |
| Inks | Jim Mooney |
| First Line | Fifteen years ago... |
| Text Story | The Pall of Terror (1.5 pages) |
| Synopsis | For months a strange cloud covers Fertile Valley and prevents rain from falling. |
| Feature | Jimmy Christian |
| Pencils | ? (2 spot illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (2 spot illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Jimmy Christian; Jed Haggard; Professor Hervey |
| Script | Robert Hyatt |
| First Line | Tragedy had never struck Fertile Valley. |
| Activity | Who's Missing from This Picture? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Dot-to-dot puzzle. |
| Story | Morrow Coaster Brake |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | Be sure your new bike has this famous brake! |
| Story | The Purple Trio (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Purple Trio discover a book of stock swindles. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Joe; Smokey Sam; J. C. Winsul |
| Pencils | Alex Blum (signed) |
| Inks | Alex Blum (signed) |
| First Line | Monkey shines can sometimes prove very serious business.. |
| Story | Bozo the Robot (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bozo faces a super-powered villain called The Clown, who kills with the aid of a poison. He leaves a card bearing his white-faced visage at the scene of the crime, with his sights set on taking over organized crime. Hazzard and Bozo track him down, but the Clown, by sheer brute force, throws the robot into the river. However, Bozo quickly recovers and tracks the Clown to his hideout and delivers a beating to the villain, then turns him over to the Police. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Clive Dow; The Clown (villain); Jeeves; Dip Downe |
| Pencils | George Brenner (signed) |
| Inks | George Brenner (signed) |
| First Line | Clive Dow, prominent attorney, returns home after a quiet week-end at his country estate --- |
| Notes | The opening portion is similar to the Joker's introduction in Batman #1. |
| Advertisement | Schwinn Bicycles (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Kent shows off the Schwinn bicycle he got from the Movie Cyclorama. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Kent |
| First Line | Boys and girls it's free! |
| Advertisement | Tootsie Roll (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A boy rescues his dog. |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Characters | Scotty (dog); Tom; Mary |
| First Line | The Tootsie Roll of honor |
| Notes | Tom is also called Bobbie. Back cover. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
