''Smash Comics'' is the title of an

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Golden Age

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series, published by

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for 85 issues between 1939 and 1949. It became the series '' Lady Luck'' for #86-90 (Dec 1949–Aug 1950). ''Smash Comics'' had the distinction of being the company's first title with exclusively new material. Originally, it starred a variety of

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es and other crimefighters, including the Ray,

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, the

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, Magno the Magnetic Man, the Jester,

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, and the robot

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. The title later came to include a number of syndicated comic strips that had previously been appearing in ''

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''. About halfway through ''Smash'''s run, reprints of the four-page crimefighter feature " Lady Luck" — originally published in the Sunday-

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insert colloquially called " The Spirit Section" — also began appearing. Eventually, the ''Smash Comics'' title changed names to ''Lady Luck'' for its final five issues, #86–90. The title ''Smash Comics'' was used again in 1999 as a part of the

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story arc "

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