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1[Summer] 1941
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Spy Smasher #1

Fawcett · [Summer] 1941 · on sale 1941-06-13

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Identification plate

Series
Spy Smasher (Fawcett, 1941 series)
Issue
#1
Publication date
[Summer] 1941
Key date
1941-07-00
On-sale date
1941-06-13
Indicia publisher
Fawcett Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Charles Sultan; inks: Charles SultanSpy Smasher
1-comic story16script: Manly Wade Wellman; pencils: Charles Sultan; inks: Charles SultanSpy Smasher; Dark Angel (villain, introduction); Franklin D. Roosevelt
2-comic story14script: Manly Wade Wellman; pencils: Charles Sultan; inks: Charles SultanSpy Smasher; Vikranz (villain, introduction); Hans Bokmann (introduction)
3Shoot to Killtext story2script: Carl Formes
4Sabotage in the Training Campscomic story14script: Manly Wade Wellman; pencils: Charles Sultan; inks: Charles SultanSpy Smasher; Herman (villain, introduction); other spies (villains, introductions, deaths)
5Here Come the Indianscomic story17pencils: Charles Sultan; inks: Charles SultanSpy Smasher; War Hatchet (villain, introduction, death)

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

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CollectionYear
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Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn]
ISBN 978-1-60699-987-5
2017On eBay ›

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