Whiz Comics #2

(February 1940)

[Introducing Captain Marvel] (Table of Contents)

Captain Marvel / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Parker

Pencils:

C. C. Beck

Inks:

C. C. Beck

Colors:

Bill Parker

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] (introduction, origin); Shazam (introduction); Sterling Morris (introduction, radio station head); Hammond (radio station receptionist); Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain, introduction); Ebenezer Batson (villain, introduction, in flashback)

Synopsis:

After being taken by a mysterious stranger to meet the ancient wizard, Shazam, and gaining the powers of Captain Marvel, Billy Batson learns of a mysterious boss called the Phantom Scientist, and decides to report it to the heaqd of Amalgamated Broadcasting Company.

Reprints:

• in The Great Comic Book Heroes (Dial Press, 1965 series) #[nn] (1965)
• in Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-4 (October-November 1974)
• in Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Crown Publishers, 1976 series) #[nn] (1976)
• in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #[nn] (1977)
• in The Shazam! Archives (DC, 1992 series) #1 ([September 1992])
• in Millennium Edition: Whiz Comics 2 (DC, 2000 series) #[nn] (March 2000)

Keywords:

Seven Deadly Enemies of Man (introduction); Station WHIZ (introduction)

[Ibis Lives Again] (Table of Contents)

Ibis the Invincible / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Parker

Pencils:

C. C. Beck

Inks:

C. C. Beck

Colors:

Bill Parker

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult; superhero

Characters:

Ibis the Invincible [Prince Amentep] (introduction); Princess Taia (introduction)

Synopsis:

From the Egyptian wing of a famous American museum, young Prince Amentep rises from the dead as prophesied, and, with the help of the Ibistick, begins helping people in need. He then boards a ship, embarking on a search for the Princess Taia.

Reprints:

• in Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-4 (October-November 1974)
• in Millennium Edition: Whiz Comics 2 (DC, 2000 series) #[nn] (March 2000)

Keywords:

Ibistick

Indexer Notes

Story continues next issue.

[Origin of Golden Arrow] (Table of Contents)

Golden Arrow / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Parker

Pencils:

Pete Costanza

Inks:

Pete Costanza

Colors:

Bill Parker

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Golden Arrow [Roger Parsons](introduction, origin); Prof. Paul Parsons (introduction, death); Gloria Parsons (introduction, death); White Wind (his horse, introduction); Nugget Ned (prospector, death); Brand Braddock (villain, introduction); Bronk Braddock (villain, introduction); Brute Braddock (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

A band of criminals shoot down a hot air balloon piloted by Professor Paul Parsons, his wife and son, in order to get a secret gas formula. The young son is rescued by a lioness, which is shot by an old prospector who raises the child to manhood. That young man, now called Golden Arrow, tracks down the men responsible for his parent's deaths.

Reprints:

• in Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-4 (October-November 1974)
• in Millennium Edition: Whiz Comics 2 (DC, 2000 series) #[nn] (March 2000)

Indexer Notes

Artist revision from Greg Duncan to Pete Costanza by Craig Delich 2011-28-11 per P.C. Hamerlinck in Alter-Ego #6 (Autumn, 2000).

[The Coming of Spy Smasher] (Table of Contents)

Spy Smasher / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Parker

Pencils:

C. C. Beck

Inks:

C. C. Beck

Colors:

Bill Parker

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy; superhero

Characters:

Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong] (introduction); Admiral Corby (introduction, Naval Intelligence Officer); Eve Corby (introduction, Adm. Corby's daughter); The Mask (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Spy Smasher goes on the trail to capture the Mask, who is after designs of the new naval mine layer from a safe in Admiral Corby's home.

Reprints:

• in Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-4 (October-November 1974)
• in Millennium Edition: Whiz Comics 2 (DC, 2000 series) #[nn] (March 2000)

Keywords:

Gyro-Sub (introduction)

[The Radium Theft of Dr. Death] (Table of Contents)

Scoop Smith / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Parker

Pencils:

Greg Duncan

Inks:

Greg Duncan

Colors:

Bill Parker

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Scoop Smith (introduction); Dr. John Galt (introduction, hospital President); Blimp Black (introduction, cameraman); Bruce Lane (introduction, newspaper Editor); Dr. Death [Dr. James Kirk!] (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Scoop is hired to recover $35,000 in radium stolen from a local hospital.

Reprints:

• in Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-4 (October-November 1974)
• in Millennium Edition: Whiz Comics 2 (DC, 2000 series) #[nn] (March 2000)

[Incident At Maloana] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Bill Parker

Pencils:

Bob Kingett

Inks:

Bob Kingett

Colors:

Bill Parker ?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Lance O'Casey (introduction); Mr. Hogan (Lance's chimp, introduction); Skipper Jones (retired sea Captain, introduction); Barracuda Brent (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Finding the owner of the Moloana Trading Company severely injured, Lance learns that natives made the attack and kidnapped an American girl and her father in the process. Lance and Mr. Hogan track down the kidnapper and rescues the pair.

Reprints:

• in Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-4 (October-November 1974)
• in Millennium Edition: Whiz Comics 2 (DC, 2000 series) #[nn] (March 2000)

Indexer Notes

Continued in the next issue.

Seals of Doom (Table of Contents)

Dan Dare / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Parker

Pencils:

Greg Duncan

Inks:

Greg Duncan

Colors:

Bill Parker

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Dan Dare (introduction); Carol Clews (introduction); un-named Police Chief; Seminole Sam (death); Carlos Peseta (villain); Manuel (villain, Peseta's servant); Portugese Pete (villain)

Synopsis:

Dan is engaged to investigate the murder of a man on the estate of wealthy Carlos Peseta, but, in the process, uncovers a drug smuggling operation.

Reprints:

• in Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-4 (October-November 1974)
• in Millennium Edition: Whiz Comics 2 (DC, 2000 series) #[nn] (March 2000)

Indexer Notes

Continued in the next issue. Preliminary stoiry title given in last panel is "$500,000 or Else".

[Lucky Seven Cash Contest] (Table of Contents)

activity / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

various

Inks:

various

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Ibis [Prince Amentep]; Lance O'Casey; Dan Dare; Golden Arrow [Roger Parsons]; Scoop Smith; Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]

Synopsis:

Illustrated contest page in which readers are asked to name their favorite Whiz Comics character in a 50 word or less letter. There are $25 in cash prizes awarded: $10 for 1st place, $5 for 2nd place and $1 each for the next 10 places. Deadline for entry is given as January 15, 1940.

Indexer Notes

Sequence added by Craig Delich 2012-6-25.