Whiz Comics
#25
(December 26, 1941)
Fawcett,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 5
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- every four weeks
- On-sale Date
- 1941-11-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Fawcett Publication [Triangle]
- Editing
- France Herron
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
Mighty Captain Marvel Stops the Turbine of Death!
Captain Marvel / Shazam! / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
- Reprints
-
in The Shazam! Archives (DC, 1992 series) #4 (2003 [April 2004]), #4 (2003 [April 2004]) - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1935 - Golden Age Captain Marvel Treasury: Volume 2 ([December] 2018)
-
- Keywords
- turbines
[no title indexed]
Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Ed Herron (plot); Bill Woolfolk
- Pencils
- C. C. Beck (pp 1-10, 12-16); Mac Raboy (pp 11, 17)
- Inks
- C. C. Beck (pp 1-10, 12-16); Mac Raboy (pp 11, 17)
- Colors
- Ed Herron
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He's here, folks! Smashing his way right out of Master Comics and into our own Whiz, Captain Nazi is cutting a path of sabotage and destruction across the country!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman] (introduction, origin); Sterling Morris; Whitey Murphy; Jacob Freeman (Freddy Freeman's uncle, introduction, death); Shazam; Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger] (villain); Adolph Hitler (villain)
- Synopsis
- Captain Nazi cuts Station WHIZ off the air and Captain Marvel races for the radio sending station and saves Whitey in the process. He then must stop a powerful turbine from spinning out of control and costing the lives of innocent people. Then, in order to save the life of a young newsboy crippled by Captain Nazi, Billy passes along part of his powers to the boy.
- Reprints
- in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1977 series) ([September] 1977)
- in The Shazam! Archives (DC, 1992 series) #4 (2003 [April 2004])
-
in Un Faux Livre (Delcourt, 2017 series) #2 (octobre 2018) [Pages 4-13 condensed]
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- Keywords
- Shazam; Station WHIZ; The Seven Deadly Enemies of Man
Indexer Notes
Part 2 of the Captain Marvel / Bulletman / Captain Marvel Jr. vs. Captain Nazi trilogy. Story continued from Master Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #21 and story continues in Master Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #22. Second appearance of the Wizard Shazam.
Raboy pencilled the Freddie Freeman / Captain Marvel Jr. figures throughout.
Script and colorist revisions from France to Ed Herron by Craig Delich. Addition of Woolfolk per Alter Ego #156 (January 2019).
Strongest Man in the World
Golden Arrow / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier; superhero
- Characters
- Carol Braddock (last appearance); Great Beefo (villain; introduction)
The Origin of Shazam: 1: Solomon -- Wisest of Men
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Manly Wade Wellman [as Juan Lopez]
- Pencils
- ? (illustration)
- Inks
- ? (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
Indexer Notes
Biography of Solomon.
[America-Smasher's Ski Tank]
Spy Smasher / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- spy; superhero
- Characters
- America-Smasher (Villain)
Indexer Notes
Spy Smasher gets his green uniform in this story.
The Death Guards Ride
Dr. Voodoo / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- jungle; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Anita; Nero; Death Guards (villains; introduction); Don Luis; Herculo Svenson; Doctor Voodoo [Hal Carey]
- Synopsis
- Hal and Nero are rescued from the burning ship by Don Luis. Anita is taken from Svenson by the Death Guards who then kill him. Hal rescues Anita from the Death guards and then is equipped by Don Luis to continue his pursuit of the Golden Flask, now held by the master of the Death Guards, Black Marco
- Keywords
- Castle of Doom; castles; dogs; sailing ships; the Golden Flask; time travel
Indexer Notes
Part 8 of Golden Flask Quest.
The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them
Ibis the Invincible / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Otto Binder ?
- Pencils
- Binder Studio (credited)
- Inks
- Binder Studio (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ibis; Taia; Birbo (villain, introduction, death); Rameses [Rameses II?] (villain, introduction, death but revived in this story)
Indexer Notes
Story continues in next issue.
Script credit by Craig Delich, per Bill Schelly, in Alter Ego #147 (July 2017).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Mighty Captain Marvel Stops the Turbine of Death!
Captain Marvel / Shazam! -
1.
["He's here, folks! Smashing his way right out of Master Comics and into our own Whiz, Captain Nazi is cutting a path of sabotage and destruction across the country!"]
Captain Marvel / Shazam! -
2.
Strongest Man in the World
Golden Arrow -
3.
The Origin of Shazam: 1: Solomon -- Wisest of Men
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4.
[America-Smasher's Ski Tank]
Spy Smasher -
5.
[Red Bart's Evil Plot]
Lance O'Casey -
6.
The Death Guards Ride
Dr. Voodoo -
7.
The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them
Ibis the Invincible
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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