 "Smilin' Jack and the Daredevil Girl Pilot" was "A New Story [prose, 248 pp., w. 20 full-page illustrations] Based on the Famous Comic Strip", published in 1942 by the Whitman Publishing Co.In 1943 Universal Studios produced a serial, "The Adventures of Smilin' Jack".Smilin' Jack Martin (Tom Brown) works with the Chinese government to stop the Black Samurai, a Japanese covert spy ring led by the German operative Fraulein von Teufel.