Golden Age Ray ("Happy" Terrill) Appreciation (2019)

[MajorHoy]

NOTE: This is a continuation of the previous "Golden Age Ray ("Happy" Terrill) Appreciation Thread" which can be read here:

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...ciation-Thread

From the original thread (started in late January of 2018)

NOTE: This thread is to discuss the character who started at Quality Comics back in 1940, not other, more recent versions. If you're looking to discuss Ray Terrill (as opposed to "Happy"), see a different thread:

Let There Be Light: The Ray (Raymond Terrill) Appreciation
https://community.cbr.com/showthread...)-Appreciation

The original Ray, reporter "Happy" Terrill, first appeared as a feature in Smash Comics #14 (September 1940) from Quality Comics. Other characters with features in that title at the time were:

Magno!
Espionage (Black X)!
Invisible Hood!
Clip Chance at Cliffside!
Wings Wendall!
Chic Carter!
Bozo the Robot!

In The Ray's first story, he plans to cover the dangerous launch of a "strato-balloon" as a member of the crew!

However, when things start going wrong during the flight, something strange winds up happening to "Happy"!

to be continued . . .

[MajorHoy]

Also in the previous post, . . .

from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. XIX (September 1986):

[DrNewGod]

I always loved the idea of a guy that basically teleported inside lightbeams

[MajorHoy]

from Smash Comics #16 (November 1940):

[DrNewGod]

In his original incarnation, was The Ray able only to ride light beams? I've never seen anything that depicted his abilities to project light before the first Freedom Fighters series that followed the FF's 1970s reintroduction in the pages of JLA.