Spy Smasher's Shiny New Year

1942 was an onslaught of a year for America, and it needed a fresh start after spending the whole thing in WWII. Who better to screw up this new chance than the Nazi villain known as America Smasher, who formally went by the handle Mailed Fist because he wore a pail of spiked gauntlets. His previous attempts at smiting his enemy Spy Smasher were all for naught, but his final appearance in Whiz Comics #39 gave him one last chance. On New Year's Eve, Alan Armstrong was a rich sportsman partying with his love interest Eve along with her father Admiral Corby who wastes the young lovers' time with his plans on testing a new kind of tank branded the Axis Smasher, which goes to show you how far writer Otto Binder was willing to go with the whole Smasher motif. American Smasher kidnaps Corby and Alan changes into his Spy Smasher getup to bust in on the Nazis' scheme to steal the Axis Smasher plans. Spy Smasher saves the Admiral but has to chase American Smasher down to a military office to get the codes for the Azis Smasher. American Smasher knocks out Spy Smasher and instead of just shooting him in the head, he sets up a pointless time bomb and sets the clock for midnight. Using the supervillain cliche of assuming his death trap all went to plan, America Smasher leaves Spy Smasher tied up to go boom. Fortunately, Spy Smasher talks a plastered wanderer in a tux into freeing him and the superhero wrecks American Smasher's plans for a great 1943. Whether America Smasher was kept as a war criminal after this is never revealed because this is the last we ever saw of the hammer-handed goose-stepper. Spy Smasher went back to his party, kissed his girl, and when the war ended, he retired his green threads to become a private dick labeled Crime Smasher. American Smasher was a standard comic book Nazi, but at least he rang in the New Year by getting a good ol' Nazi-punch to the face!