Moon Face

Artie Shaw - Moon Face. November  1936. Vocals by Peg La Centra

Hugh Hazard and His Iron Man

from  Smash Comics #5 (December 1939)

George E. Brenner (1913 - 1952) was an American cartoonist in the mid 20th Century. He created comics such as The Clock, Bozo the Iron Man, and 711.

Brenner was first employed by the Comics Magazine Company before moving to Everett "Busy" Arnold's Quality Comics group in late 1937, attaining the title of Executive Editor. He subsequently worked on titles such as Crack Comics, Doll Man Quarterly, Feature Comics, Police Comics, and Smash Comics. The cover for Smash Comics #22 was drafted by Brenner. One of the pseudonyms he used was "Wayne Reid".

He also had a small part as a guest in the 1946 movie The Razor's Edge.

The circumstances of his death are unknown, but Brenner is remembered as creator of the first (1936) masked hero in comics (other masked heroes like the Shadow and Zorro had previously appeared in pulps); the face covering worn by The Clock was nothing more than a simple black cloth with a flounce on the bottom.

story an art by  George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]

Bozo the Robot, the first Iron Man

from  Smash Comics #3 (October 1939)

Story and art   by George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]

Dan Hastings, Little Nemo and others from 1937

some pages from  Star Comics #5 (July-August 1937)

"The Mad Martian"

Ken Fitch wrote a lot of text stories for Action Comics. He also is credited with some HOURMAN stories. It might have been a house name. This story is from STAR COMICS #4, June 1937. Click once or twice for full size to be able to read.

"I Flirted with Trouble"

art by Lee Elias

From

Love Lessons #4 (April 1950)

Elektro

Elektro is the nickname of a robot built by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in its Mansfield, Ohio facility between 1937 and 1939.

Seven feet tall  and  weighing 265 pounds , humanoid in appearance, he could walk by voice command, speak about 700 words (using a 78-rpm record player), smoke cigarettes, blow up balloons, and move his head and arms. Elektro's body consisted of a steel gear, cam and motor skeleton covered by an aluminum skin. His photoelectric "eyes" could distinguish red and green light. He was on exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair and reappeared at that fair in 1940, with "Sparko", a robot dog that could bark, sit, and beg.

 Elektro toured North America in 1950 in promotional appearances for Westinghouse, and was displayed at Pacific Ocean Park in Venice, California in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also appeared as "Thinko", in Sex Kittens Go to College (1960). In the 1960s, his head was given to a retiring Westinghouse engineer.

Elektro survived the scrap pile and is currently the property of the Mansfield Memorial Museum.

(I would take a road trip to that museum and get some color  3D shots of the monster, but their web site says they are closed and it hasn't been updated since 2010)

Here is a low res shot provided by the museum.

Sparko seems to have gone to t̶h̶e̶ ̶j̶u̶n̶k̶p̶i̶l̶e̶  Robot Doggie Heaven.

1939, at the Fair

similar, probably nowhere near as sophisticated