Whiz Comics #39

(January 1943)

[Contents Page] (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

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Captain Marvel Finds Utopia (Table of Contents)

Captain Marvel / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Marc Swayze?

Inks:

Marc Swayze?

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Content Information

Genre:

superhero

[The Framing of Jim Brant] (Table of Contents)

Golden Arrow / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Louis Cazeneuve

Inks:

Louis Cazeneuve

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Content Information

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Golden Arrow; White Wind (horse); Sprig McCoy (crooked rancher); Nick (foreman); Ellen Huggins (rancher); Cal Huggins (rancher); Jim Brant

Synopsis:

McCoy wants to buy the ranches of his neighbors, but none will sell. He then kills one and lets the other get the blame for the murder.

Indexer Notes

First line: "The awful shadow of false guilt hangs over an innocent man's head!"
Originally credited to Parkhurst, but this is not him. He has very different horses, and the head of Golden Arrow rather small with long, broad neck, and very special hair locks in the back of the same neck, as in #44.
The art looks like Dick Ayers' very lively inking and figures, and Cazeneuve is credited to have ghosted him on "Boy Commandos". He is aso credited on Golden Arrow for 1943-45 by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. The art is very similar to his work on "Aquaman" in Adventure Comics #124, and credited stories in Star Sprangled Comics #45. So this story is most probably his.

Colonel Porterhouse Rides Again (Table of Contents)

Colonel Porterhouse / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Script:

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Pencils:

George Storm

Inks:

George Storm

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Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Colonel Porterhouse

Indexer Notes

Parody of this issue's Golden Arrow story; last Colonel Porterhouse story; artist George Storm appears in background of panel 5 on last page.

Buys a Bond (Table of Contents)

Mad Artist / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Indexer Notes

contents page title

Jungle Raid (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Claude Dunnagan

Letters:

Typeset

The New Year's Eve Plot (Table of Contents)

Spy Smasher / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

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Content Information

Genre:

spy; superhero

Characters:

America-Smasher (villain)

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Spy Smasher Comics (Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited, 1942 series) #v2#7 (February 1944) [script only; script only, new artwork by Canadian artists]

Indexer Notes

Story takes place Dec. 31, 1942-Jan. 1, 1943.

[South China New Year's] (Table of Contents)

Lance O'Casey / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Clem Weisbecker

Inks:

Clem Weisbecker

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Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

America-Smasher (Villain)

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Lance O'Casey [Mighty Midget Comic] (Samuel E. Lowe & Co., 1943 series) #12 (1943)

Indexer Notes

Story takes place December 31, 1942-January 1, 1943. First line: "New Year's Eve in South China - a night for revelry and celebration!"

The Slave of the Lamp (Table of Contents)

Ibis the Invincible / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Bob Hebboa?

Inks:

Bob Hebboa?

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Content Information

Genre:

occult; superhero

Characters:

Slave of the Lamp (Villain; Intro; a genie)