Number 1752: Spy Smasher — hot head!

The Man In the Iron Mask...not the Alexandre Dumas Man In the Iron Mask, but a musician who fails to salute Hitler, and gets a metal helmet locked on his dome for his offense. (Some people, including evil despots, just don’t cut anyone any slack.) Not only does the musician become a metal-head, he is ordered to America to kill...Spy Smasher!

This is one of those goofy stories from three-fourths of a century ago. The story moves right along. But everything that happens in this story, including the Man In the Iron Mask putting an iron mask on Spy Smasher, is totally unbelievable. What else would you expect with a set-up like this story has? Spy Smasher, who shared Whiz Comics with Captain Marvel, has no super powers. I guess it is just good luck — and the Man In the Iron Mask stupidly leaving the room where Spy Smasher is tied up with a flaming torch roasting his head — that gives him the advantage. (Why do villains give their victims a chance to escape? Why do I foolishly ask rhetorical questions?)

If you can’t accept the story, at least you can appreciate the artwork, attributed to Emil Gershwin. From Spy Smasher #4 (1942):

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