Whiz Comics
#43
(June 1943)
Fawcett,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 8
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-05-12
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Fawcett Magazine
- Editing
- Rod Reed (credited) (executive editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 38, Numbers 1-4. January-December 1943. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 586226. Fawcett also reported to the Copyright Office that this issue was still volume 7 and that the publication date was June 9. Neither appeared in this actual issue printed.
[no title indexed]
Captain Marvel / Shazam! / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Have you seen the sinister spies on page 19?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]
- Reprints
-
in Whiz Comics (L. Miller & Son, 1950 series) #89 ([circa 1953])
-
- Keywords
- Japan; maps; television
Indexer Notes
Possibly the first appearance of a television on the cover of an American comic.
Sabotage at the Printing Plant
Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Ibis; Golden Arrow [Roger Parsons]; Captain Marvel. Jr. [Freddy Freeman] (cameo); Steamboat; Rod Reed (? appears); Adolf Hitler (villain); the Nazis (villains)
- Synopsis
- The Nazis try to stop Whiz Comics from being printed.
- Reprints
-
in Whiz Comics (Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited, 1941 series) #v2#10 (October 1943) [script only]
-
Spy Smasher Discovers the Streamlined Treasure Island!
Spy Smasher / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- spy; superhero
- Characters
- Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Boy King; the Japanese (villains); the Nazis (villains)
- Synopsis
- Spy Smasher discovers a modern-day Treasure Island when he is forced to defend a small island in the Atlantic from invading Japanese and German forces.
- Reprints
- in Spy Smasher Comics (Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited, 1942 series) #v2#5 (December 1943) [redrawn]
- in Whiz Comics (L. Miller & Son, 1950 series) #89 ([circa 1953])
-
in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #69 ([October] 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Story based on Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND.
Art revision from Emil Gershwin to Blum by Craig Delich 2013-10-24, per Otto Binder in article in Alter Ego #121 (November 2013).
Golden Arrow and the Petrified Forest
Golden Arrow / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier; superhero
- Characters
- Golden Arrow [Roger Parsons]
The Mystery of the Ghost Destroyer
Lance O'Casey / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Reprints
- in Whiz Comics (Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited, 1941 series) #v2#10 (October 1943) [script only]
- in Whiz Comics (L. Miller & Son, 1950 series) #89 ([circa 1953])
-
Indexer Notes
Story title corrected June 2009.
The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Ibis the Invincible / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Devil; Nero; Brutus; Robespierre
Indexer Notes
Story based on Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster".
Among Hebberd's trademarks are googly eyes and high arched eyebrows.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Have you seen the sinister spies on page 19?"]
Captain Marvel / Shazam! -
1.
In This Issue
-
2.
Sabotage at the Printing Plant
Captain Marvel / Shazam! -
3.
Spy Smasher Discovers the Streamlined Treasure Island!
Spy Smasher -
4.
Golden Arrow and the Petrified Forest
Golden Arrow -
5.
The Mystery of the Ghost Destroyer
Lance O'Casey -
6.
As Good as Dead
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7.
The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Ibis the Invincible
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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