parent nodes: Captain Midnight | Crime Smasher | Popular Super Heroes
Alan Armstrong is an expert pilot, a wealthy playboy, and the confidant of his fiancé Eve's father, Admiral Corby. The Admiral suspected that spies had infiltrated America and needed help, so Armstrong put on a costume and became the Spy Smasher. When this turned out to be a fruitless endevour, he changed his name to Crime Smasher and shifted his focus towards fighting crime. Eve sometimes helps him since she knows his secret identity.
He is considered to be relatively low powered; instead, he uses both his super smarts and his Gyrosub, which combines "the functions of an airplane, auto gyro, speedboat, and submarine."
Having shown incredible intellect from a young age, Alan was eventually put into the SPSS due to percieved benefit he would give to a team of heroes. After high school, he joined the Air Force, where he became an ace pilot. Eventually, after being used as a tool to root out spies in America, and leaving the military, he went and joined up with a super hero team in Austin, Texas. Another notable member of that team is Captain Midnight.