Wednesday, September 14, 2022

They Don't Call Me Spy Detainer - Episode 64

Spy Smasher! A hero in a red cape, green flight suit, aviator cap and goggles delivers a punishing blow to three men who are knocked across the room. Another man stands in the background. The logo on Spy Smasher's chest is a diamond with black center. Caption at upper left reads: "The cabin swarms with spies!"

The moment you’ve been waiting for! Falk fights back-to-back with a comic book and movie serial superstar who couldn’t keep the momentum going when he switched from espionage to crime-fighting after the war and faded from memory: Spy Smasher! Which spies need smashing? Find out!

They Don’t Call Me Spy Detainer, episode 64 of This Gun in My Hand, was covertly surveilled by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How can you tell where my loyalties lie? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
Spy Smasher is a public domain comic book character who first appeared in Whiz Comics Number 2 (February 1940). You can find the complete twelve chapter cliffhanger serial Spy Smasher from 1942 on Youtube at https://youtu.be/lQhrlF8goDM . Full issues of Whiz Comics and Spy Smasher comics are available at https://digitalcomicmuseum.com .

Credits:
The opening and ad break music clips are from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Some music and sounds taken from the public domain serial Spy Smasher (1942).

Sound Effect Title: Smash.ogg
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/egomassive/sounds/536777/

Sound Effect Title: G26-23-Fight Scuffle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438342/

Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html

Sound Effect Title: Light bulb breaking
By Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/105-Light-Bulb-Breaking.html

Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html

Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/  

Sound Effect Title: Various Handcuff Sounds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jtnewlin13/sounds/349864/

Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from Whiz Comics Number 2 (February 1940), public domain, artist unknown.