Wow Comics
#9
(January 6, 1943)
Fawcett,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-12-09
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Fawcett Publication [Triangle]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Wilfred H. Fawcett (credited as W. H. Fawcett) (president); Roger Fawcett (credited as Roger K. Fawcett) (vice-president); Allen E. Norman (credited) (secretary); Gordon Fawcett (credited) (treasurer); Eliott D. Odell (credited) (advertising director); Roscoe Fawcett (credited as Roscoe K. Fawcett) (circulation director); Ralph Daigh (credited) (editorial director); Al Allard (credited) (art director)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 1.
[no title indexed]
Mary Marvel / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Introducing - Mary Marvel the Shazam girl now starring in her own feature with Captain Marvel!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Shazam
- Reprints
-
in Mary Marvel Fanzine (Mike Bromberg, 2004 series) #7 (January 2007) - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #430 - Mary Marvel: Volume 1 ([March] 2017), #2069 - The Golden Age Mary Marvel Giant #1 ([August] 2018) [cover]
-
Wow Wishes You a Merry Christmas!
table of contents / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Marc Swayze
- Inks
- Marc Swayze
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?; typeset
- Characters
- Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Indexer Notes
Panel reproduced from page 11, panel 7.
The Night Before Christmas
Mary Marvel / comic story / 14 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, here you are, sis! I've brought you over to Wow Comics!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Mr. Scarlet [Brian Butler]; Pinky the Whiz Kid [Pinky Butler]; Peeves; Mrs. Bromfield; Spike; Monk
- Synopsis
- Mary fights crooks who are smuggling jewels in toys.
Indexer Notes
First Mary Marvel strip.
Last appearance in Captain Marvel Adventures #19, based on cover dates; based on "on-sale" dates, this comic PRE-cedes Captain Marvel Adventures 19 (which is a Christmas story, and this being "The Night Before Christmas" might actually make more sense being her second appearance, instead of third appearance.)
Last Ship from Marseilles
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- Conklin; Pierre Desmoulins; Etienne de Lannec; Kurt von Schroeder; Mr. Waithe
- Synopsis
- Captain Conklin is having trouble getting his ship out of Marseilles.
- Keywords
- Marseilles
The Mystery of the Make-Believe Mastermind!
Mr. Scarlet and Pinky / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- Henry Lynne Perkins (plot); ? (script)
- Pencils
- Binder Studio
- Inks
- Binder Studio
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Mr. Scarlet; Pinky the Whiz Kid; The Black Sphinx; The Boss of Crime College; Miss Wade; Charley; Joey; Cholmondely Creep
- Synopsis
- Mr. Scarlet and Pinky fight crooks using paper mache structures.
Indexer Notes
Brian Butler loses his job as DA.
Plot and art credit revision per Will Murray in Alter Ego #157 (March 2019).
Down Under
Phantom Eagle / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- aviation
- Characters
- Phantom Eagle; Shorty; Katie (kangaroo); Flogg
- Synopsis
- The Japanese plan to wipe out the allied airfields and ground crews while the planes are fighting a decoy force.
Creepy Fantasy
Spooks / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Spooks; Bensonhurst; Tony Dominic; Looey-the-Lug; Peggy Ann Dominic
- Synopsis
- Spooks takes over a dead man's body and lets him testify in court.
Indexer Notes
Last Spooks story. Contents page title.
The Terrific Toy
Commando Yank / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Commando Yank; Dr. Sven Nordlung; Bjorne Sondergunn; Eric; Ludwig
- Synopsis
- Commando Yank has to get some tank plans from a Norwegian castle.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Introducing - Mary Marvel the Shazam girl now starring in her own feature with Captain Marvel!"]
Mary Marvel -
1.
["Go get the Marvel gang"]
-
2.
Wow Wishes You a Merry Christmas!
-
3.
The Night Before Christmas
Mary Marvel -
4.
Last Ship from Marseilles
-
5.
["The big 3 in comics"]
-
6.
[no title indexed]
-
7.
The Mystery of the Make-Believe Mastermind!
Mr. Scarlet and Pinky -
8.
Down Under
Phantom Eagle -
9.
Creepy Fantasy
Spooks -
10.
The Terrific Toy
Commando Yank -
11.
["A best-seller in books!!"]
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12.
["Look, fellas-- my favorite magazine"]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Jochen G.
- Del Gruber
- Clint Maxwell
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
- James Zieff
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