Whiz Comics
#30
(May 15, 1942)
Fawcett,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 5
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- every four weeks
- On-sale Date
- 1942-04-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Fawcett Publication [Triangle]
- Editing
- Otto Binder (editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
[no title indexed]
Captain Marvel / Shazam! / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- C. C. Beck
- Inks
- C. C. Beck (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- With a crash of thunder, mighty Captain Marvel leaps to battle!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] (also inset); Billy Batson (inset)
- Keywords
- lightning; Shazam (magic word); stereotyping of the Japanese; submarines
Indexer Notes
Inker revision from Costanza ? to Beck, per P. C. Hamerlinck, added by Craig Delich.
The Heritage of the Batsons
Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] Steamboat; B. X. Batson (introduction, possibly Billy's grandfather)
Golden Arrow Elects a Sheriff
Golden Arrow / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier; superhero
Indexer Notes
The story title is from the contents page.
Mr. Zero
Spy Smasher / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- spy; superhero
- Characters
- Herr Zero [Carl Davis] (villain, introduction)
Indexer Notes
contents page title
Shazam! Mercury, Swifter than Thought
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Manly Wade Wellman (credited as Juan Lopez)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
Indexer Notes
The sixth and final part of the Origin of Shazam series.
[Pearl Dive of Doom]
Lance O'Casey / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Lance O'Casey; Hogan (a monkey); Aber; Suli; Meli (Suli's sister); Boss Dubbin (villain, a pearler); Hawkins (villain, reforms); Carse (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- O'Casey and Hogan are ship-wrecked during a typhoon and are washed up on an island, where they meet a brother and sister who tell him that a local pearler is cheating the divers by not paying them. O'Casey agrees to act as diver for Boss Dubbin, but is double-crossed, which almost costs him his life!
- Keywords
- Boru Bu; The Starfish
Indexer Notes
Story title taken from the contents page.
Last appearance of Hogan.
March of the Crusaders!
Dr. Voodoo / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- historical; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Anita; Nero; Doctor Voodoo [Hal Carey]; Emir Abdullah; Sir Gavain
- Synopsis
- Hal and Nero join a group of Crusaders on the trail of Abdullah and Anita. The Crusaders win a battle with Abdullah's men and Hal and Nero sneak into the Saracens' fortress and free Anita and secure the Flask.
- Keywords
- jousting; knights; the Crusades; the Golden Flask; time travel
Indexer Notes
Part 12 of Golden Flask Quest.
The Headless Horseman
Ibis the Invincible / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the contents page.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["With a crash of thunder, mighty Captain Marvel leaps to battle!"]
Captain Marvel / Shazam! -
1.
[contents page]
-
2.
The Heritage of the Batsons
Captain Marvel / Shazam! -
3.
Golden Arrow Elects a Sheriff
Golden Arrow -
4.
Mr. Zero
Spy Smasher -
5.
Shazam! Mercury, Swifter than Thought
-
6.
[Pearl Dive of Doom]
Lance O'Casey -
7.
March of the Crusaders!
Dr. Voodoo -
8.
The Headless Horseman
Ibis the Invincible
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
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