The Hairless Hound Caper

KAOS Agent: "Who is he?"
Second KAOS Agent: "He's Smart!"
Third KAOS Agent: "He doesn't look it!"

The Hairless Hound Caper
Issue	#1 (June 1966); reprinted in issue #8
Writer	Uncredited
Artist	Dick Giordano (uncredited, pencils), Sal Trapani (uncredited, inks)
Pages	31 (13 + 11 + 7)
Story Number	1
Villain	Zula
Next Story	Self Defeat

Get Smart comic Story #1 (Issue #1, reprinted in Issue #8).

Three-part story with the second and third parts subtitled "It's a Gas!" and "The Bare Facts" respectively.

Plot

Max, 99 and Fang go to a bald-headed men's convention in Atlantic City in search of a KAOS agent who is believed to have a secret code tattooed on his scalp.

Synopsis

Characters

CONTROL

• Maxwell Smart
• Agent 99
• Chief
• Fang
• Motorcycle Rider

KAOS

• Zula
• Paulette
• Fedor
• Irving

Others

• Henri
• Policeman
• Watchman

Weapons and Gadgets

• Armored T-Shirt
• Sleep Pellets
• F-37 Cigarette Lighter (shoots bullets)
• G-32 Cigarette Lighter (emits sleeping gas)
• Shoe Phone
• Personal Jet Propulsion
• X-001 Chewing Gum
• Boutonnière Gas Spray
• Tear Gas (in heel of other shoe)
• Swordcane (drawn from scabbard in cane) (KAOS)

Locations

• Paris
• Atlantic City

Trivia

• For reasons best known to the anonymous author, in this first comic story, Max continually calls the Chief "Control", while 99 calls Max "Chief".
• The central plot point of a bald-headed men's convention comes some two years before the KAOS League of Bald-Headed Men is introduced in the television episode "Diamonds Are a Spy's Best Friend".

Reality Check

• The second part subtitle, "It's a Gas!" is a play on the expression popularized in the Jazz Age.

Note

• Artist credits are from Martin O'Hearn's blog. Trapani's signature can be seen in the first panel.