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Issue: Special Edition Series #2
Publication Date: January 1974
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Issues: #2 of 3 Issues
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Publisher: FlagDynaPubs Enterprises
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Indicia Publisher: Special Edition Publishing Company
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 320
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $14.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 42 (36 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: "Created by Alan Light. Compiled by Ken Mitchell." Grayscale reprints from the original comics: The Black Condor from Crack Comics #1-#19 and The Ray from Smash Comics #14-#30. One eight-page color section reprinting the first eight pages of The Ray story from Smash Comics #20.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black & white interior
Dimensions: annual size
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Binding: perfect bound
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The Ray & Black Condor

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Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor
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Disclose Notes: Cover taken from the splash panel from Crack Comics #16.
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Blank Page

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Special Edition Series 2

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Introduction

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First Line: Whenever comics fans, nostalgia freaks, and collectors gather ...
Synopsis: Summary of life of Lou Fine.
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Disclose Notes: Credited "by James Steranko," with sign-off of "Steranko, May 16, 1974".
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The Man Who Can Fly Like a Bird

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.] (introduction, origin); Mr. Richard Grey (introduction, death); Mrs. Richard Grey (introduction, death); Father Pierre (introduction, death); Yakki Raiders (villains, introduction); Gali Kan (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: From the beginning of time, man has thought of flight...
Synopsis: Saved by his mother from a group of raiders who had murder his father, infant Grey is raised by condors with whom he seems to connect, and, as he grows, he studies the mechanics of flight, which he eventually succeeds in emulating. Taken in by a kindly Monk, Grey takes revenge on Gali Khan for killing the Monk and swears a life-long effort to bring evil doers to justice.
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The Adventure of Ali Kan

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; Andrea Kent (introduction); Denny Kent (introduction); Ada (introduction); Ali Kan (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Condor defends a British brother and sister from the clutches of Ali Kan while brandishing a new weapon: a paralyzing black ray gun.
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The Black Condor in America

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; the Princess of Singat (introduction); Ras Gyn (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: On his first trip to America, the Condor serves as protector of a friend's daughter.
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Disclose Notes: Jim Amash identifies the penciller in The Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2011 series) #1 (November, 2011), page 93.
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The Menace of Sihn Fang

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; Sinh Fang (villain, introduction, death); De Graf (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Returning to the Far East, the Condor encounters Sinh Fang and his cohort in their unconquerable fortress called Mount Doom, which was finally destroyed by the Black Ray.
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Disclose Notes: Art credits from Jim Amash in The Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2011 series) #1 (November, 2011), page 93.
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The Eagle Battalion

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Writer(s): ? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; The Sapphire King (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: On Danger island off the coast of Ceylon, the Sapphire King stops ships and takes their crews to work as slaves in his sapphire pools. The Black Condor flies to the island to free the men, but must contend with the Sapphire King's army of trained giant eagles.
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The Kite-Men

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Writer(s): ? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; The Kite-Men (villains, introduction, most die), the Master (villain, introduction); Karlo Klug (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Condor must battle the strange Karlo Klug, who, at the direction of his midget master, launches an army of "human kites".
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The Great Yaho

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Writer(s): ? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; George Allison (death); The Great Yaho (villain, introduction, a golem); Chief of the Yaqui Indians (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Condor must battle a giant golem of the Yaqui Indian tribe.
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The Menace of the Thinking Machines

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Writer(s): ? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; Lung Woe (villain, introduction, death); un-named enemy Nazi spy (villain, introduction); the Spinning Deaths (villains, introduction, sentient machines, all die)
Synopsis: The Condor must overcome the Chinese Lung Woe, who has created the drilling "spinning death machine" for his Nazi cohort. Unfortunately for them, the machine turns out to have a mind of its own and manufactures an army itself!
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Jackie Boy

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Writer(s): ? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; Dr. Patche (introduction); Jackie (introduction, crime victim); Jackie's wife (introduction); Jackie's son (introduction); Monks Gallagher (villain, introduction); Slugs (villain)
Synopsis: The Condor comes upon a man named Jackie who has been stabbed in the chest and attempts to get medical help for him. He then notifies the man's wife and lame child of what has happened and that he'll be all right. But the Condor wants to track down the attempted murderer, a man named Gallagher, who has stolen this victim's rights to citizenship and who has threatened to expose him.
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Disclose Notes: The reprint in The Quality Companion titles this story "Jackie Boy".
Art credits by Jim Amash in The Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2011 series) #1 (November, 2011), page 93.
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Sophisticated Lady

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Writer(s): ? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; Sophisticated Lady [Marta Cowen] (villain, introduction); Nickolas Gido (villain, introduction)
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The Coming of Jasper Crow

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Writer(s): ? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr., also as Senator Thomas Wright]; Senator Thomas Wright (introduction, death); Dr. Foster (introduction); Wendy Foster (Wright's daughter, introduction); Senator Jasper Crow (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Returning to the land of his birth, Richard Grey meets Senator Wright who is being bullied by Senator Jaspar Crow to vote for an appropriations bill that would provide kickbacks. When Wright refuses, Crow has him shot by his thugs, and when the Senator dies, Grey assumes the role of the late Senator and votes against the bill.
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Jasper Crow and the Miners

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Writer(s): ? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. as Senator Thomas Wright]; Wendy Foster; Senator Jasper Crow (villain)
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Disclose Notes: Art credits from Jim Amash in The Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2011 series) #1 (November, 2011), page 93.
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General Korn

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. as Senator Thomas Wright]; Wendy Foster; Dr. Foster; Carl Stark (introduction, inventor, death); General Korn (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Condor must solve the murder of inventor Carl Stark, who had created a remote control bomb that was used by a Nazi named General Korn to destroy ten tall buildings.
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The Industrial Tyrant

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. as Senator Thomas Wright]; Wendy Foster; Senator Jaspar Crow (villain)
Synopsis: After his first defeat at the hands of the Black Condor, Jaspar Crow begins a long descent into darker evil that manifests in his private endeavors. Crow creates an imposter Black Condor to attack his own workers, who were poised to go on strike. The true Condor infiltrates the plant and frightens Crow into paying his workers properly and agreeing to humane working conditions.
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Menace in Miami

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. as Senator Thomas Wright]; Senator Jasper Crow (villain); Miranda (villain, introduction)
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The Ghost-Gun Killer

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. as Senator Thomas Wright]; Jasper Crow (villain); the Ghost-Gun Killer (villain, introduction)
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A flying enemy of all evil...

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. as Senator Thomas Wright]; Wendy Foster; Dr. Foster; Senator Jaspar Crow (villain); Fifth Columnists (villains)
Synopsis: When Senator Wright sides with the Indians on a proposed tax bill, Jaspar Crow objects because he stands to gain from it. A group of fifth columnists incite the Indians, who then turn on the tax collectors, forcing the Condor to use his Black Ray to help turn some of the Indians to his side.
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The Dreaded Black Condor...

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. as Senator Thomas Wright]
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The President's Been Kidnapped

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.; Senator Thomas Wright]; Dr. Foster; Wendy Foster; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; The Hand (villain); Dutch (villain, death)
Synopsis: After the President issues a strange order, Senator Wright, as the Condor, investigates and discovers the President has been kidnapped and vows to rescue him, as well as Wendy.
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Origin of the Ray

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill] (newspaper reporter, origin); Professor Styne; Anton Rox (villain)
First Line: Confound that guy Terrill!
Synopsis: Cub reporter Happy Terrill gains incredible powers when he rides a balloon through a cosmic storm in the high stratosphere. The balloon mission of Professor Styne also uncovered a new powerful gas, which is stolen by the thug, Anton Rox.
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Disclose Notes: In this adventure only, the Ray's legs were colored as bare instead of yellow.
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Cadava the Crumbler

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Diane; Soo Choo; Cadava the Crumbler (villain, death)
Synopsis: Cadava, a once handsome man turned bitter from society's scorn, unleashes a destructive ray on the city, but dies in struggling with the Ray. To help reconstruct the city, the Ray creates a giant form of himself to lift large building materials into place.
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The Revenge of Bela Jat

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Shimego; Gar; Bela Jat (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: The Ray faces Bela Jat, a Hindu mystic, who can transform himself at will into an "ecto-fluid". His murderous reign ends when Police catch him in solid form and put a knife in his back.
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Music Hath Charm

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Stradivous (villain, introduction, death); Jennings (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: The musician Stradivous, who can hypnotize anyone with his clarinet, works with Jennings to hijack a shipment of gold.
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The Dwarf Train Robbers

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Miss White and her seven dwarfs (villains, introduction for all, all die)
Synopsis: After his transformation into the Ray, Happy hastily insists that his old self was "dead", but soon resumes his career as a newspaper reporter, trailing a band of old vaudeville dwarfs who are in alliance with one Miss White to rob trains.
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The Curse of the Marshwoods

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Timothy Marshwood (introduction); Mr. Marshwood (flashback, introduction, death, in flashback); Jud Marshwood (villain, Tim's uncle, introduction); Slyme (villain, Marshwood family butler, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Happy has been assigned to cover the waterfront for his newspaper and discovers Timothy Marshwood trying to drown himself. Rescuing him, Tim relates the gruesome family history of family members dying violent deaths, usually by their own hands.....and Happy decides to investigate.
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Slash Scraponi's Escape

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Lanford "Happy" Terrill]; unnamed Warden of Bedlam Island prison; Slash Scraponi (villain, introduction); Corny Hogan (villain, death); unnamed fake Warden of Bedlam Island prison (villain)
Synopsis: Corny Hogan turns state's evidence on Slash Scarponi, and the criminal is sentenced to Bedlam Island prison for twenty years. However, Slash is still able to control his mob on the outside because he has a phony warden in charge of the prison. When Happy Terrill begins putting the heat on Scarponi, the mobster decides it's time to break out of prison and get Terrill.
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The Empire of Captain Blue

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Jackie (introduction, later known as Bud); Keefer; Rogers; Captain Blue (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: The Ray, a boy and two men are stranded on a Pacific Island after their plane is shot down by "asiatics". There he meets Captain Blue, a pirate who intends to attack Hawaii, then take over the world after the Americans and the "mongols" destroy each other. Blue imprisons the Ray in a circle of light, and the Ray must rely on his human strength to send Blue over a ledge to his death.
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The Return of Captain Blue

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud [once known as Jackie]; Lupo (villain, a wraith, dream); King Peveral (villain, dream); Blitzen (villain, a six-legged horse, dream); Kulik (villain, dream); Captain Blue (villain, dream)
Synopsis: Bud returns home as the ward of Happy Terrill, whom he no longer remembers to be the Ray for some reason. That night, Bud has a dream that wraith Lupo kidnaps him and takes him on Blitzen to Elixir, the realm of King Percival, where he and the Ray battle Captain Blue again.
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The Beetle and the Tongs

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Tom Lum (introduction); The Beetle (villain, introduction); Long Woo (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: To help out during a case involving feuds between rival clans in Chinatown, The Ray gives Bud a "ray ring" that emits a beam to blind people.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Vera; Wonder Horse; The Great Ivan; Pietro
First Line: Who killed the Great Ivan, master of trapeze art at Farnum's Circus...or was it an accident?
Synopsis: The Ray and Bud temporarily join the circus after saving some aerialists from attack. In the process, they discovered an FBI agent is also there to take down Vera, the equestrienne.
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Mitch Mouldin

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Mitch Mouldin
First Line: Banks are looted...
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Disclose Notes: Art credit in Smash Comics #25 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).
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Cyanide Gas and Sabotage

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Alan Hale (death)
First Line: Happy is in Washington...
Synopsis: The Ray shows great concern for keeping young Bud out of harm's way after the lad witnesses a shooting. However, Bud places himself in danger afterwards when he seeks help from the Secret Service.
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Disclose Notes: On page two, The Ray borrows Superman's tag line: "This is a job for the Ray!"
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The Atom Smasher

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bud; Dr. Kompf (villain); Hugo (villain)
First Line: With his little pal, Bud, Happy is heading for Camp Reade...
Synopsis: The Ray battles fifth columnists who have a mobile atom-smasher that can turn people into liquid or dust, and also has the capability to immobilze the Ray.
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Zimmerman's Spy Ring

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Chita; Zimmerman (villain); Zimmerman's spy ring (villains)
First Line: Happy Terrill and his friend Bud are heading home...
Synopsis: The Ray and Bud break up a Mexican spy ring.
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War Games and Mexican Bandits

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; The Chief; El Lobo (villain)
First Line: Amid the boom of big guns and the rumble of mule-drawn caissons, war games get underway at Fort Sherman, Texas...
Synopsis: German spies and Mexican bandits terrorize Fort Sherman, Texas.
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The Von Ribboncounter Affair

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Von Ribboncounter (villain); Adolf (villain)
Synopsis: Von Ribboncounter tries to sabotage the Army's test of a new dive bomber.
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Disclose Notes: In his article in Alter Ego #127 (August 2014), Ken Quattro states that, by this issue of Smash (#30), Fine was collaborating with new Quality artist Bob Fujitani. He doesn't state that Fujitani worked with Fine on this story, but art spotters might want to check this out.
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Page One of The Ray from Smash Comics #25

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]
First Line: Happy Terrill, star reporter in civil life, can transform himself in the greatest single anti-crime force ...
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Disclose Notes: Page one of The Ray story from Smash Comics #25 (August 1941) reprinted in color. No other text.

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