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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published June 24, 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Otto Binder ?

Cover Details

Genre spy; superhero
Pencils Gus Ricca ?
Inks Gus Ricca ?

1 page filler "contents page"

17 page Spy Smasher story "Death Over Washington"

Characters Death [Baroness Von Todt] (Villain; Intro; Death); "Satan" (Villain; Intro; a German spy)
Genre spy; superhero
Pencils Gene McDonald?
Inks Gene McDonald?
Notes contents page title

13 page Spy Smasher story "The Two-Faced Killer!"

Characters Spy Smasher; Bruno (Villain; Intro)
Genre spy; superhero
Pencils Emil Gershwin
Inks Emil Gershwin
Notes Art formerly attributed to Gene McDonald with a question mark. The Gershwin attribution is from the reprint.
Reprinted in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #3

6 page Thrilling Spy Tales story "The Woman Who Doomed a Million Men"

Characters Mrs. Greenhow (Intro; Confederate spy); Abraham Lincoln (Guest Star); General George McClellan (Guest Star); Allan Pinkerton (Guest Star)
Genre spy

11 page Spy Smasher story "Spy Smasher Vs. America Smasher"

Characters Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; America Smasher; Admiral Corby; Eve Corby; Alan Armstrong
Synopsis America Smasher escapes from the FBI agent guarding him and steps up his attack on America's morale by projecting propaganda films on a giant screen in the sky, and when the screen is destroyed shines them on buildings. It is up to Spy Smasher to figure out where he is projecting from so that he can stop the propaganda.
Genre spy; superhero
Pencils Gene McDonald?
Inks Gene McDonald?
Notes contents page title, first sentence in the story is [Fighting flesh-and-blood spies is hard enough work.]
Reprinted in Golden-Age Men of Mystery (AC, 1996 series) #10 (1998) [in black and white]

2 page text story "The Chinese Pheasant"

Script Paul Sinderson
Letters typeset

13 page Spy Smasher story "The Victory Battalion"

Characters The Victory Battalion (Spy Smasher's kid club; Intro); Herr Schnitzel and his spies (including Louie the Bull; Villain; Intro)
Genre spy; superhero
Pencils Gene McDonald?
Inks Gene McDonald?
Notes contents page title