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Wham Comics
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PublicationDecember 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly
 
FeaturingBlue Fire
CreditsPencils: Lew Glanzman | Inks: Lew Glanzman
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Fire [Jack Knapp]; The Frost
 
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FeaturingRemington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesInside front cover.
 
SynopsisJack Knapp, who spends his time experimenting with chemicals, causes an explosion that surrounds him with blue flame. While the fire engulfs him, he can pass through any object. Memorizing the formula, he goes to investigate an ocean liner sabotaged by a strange man encased in ice. Blue Fire discovers the Frost, a foreign agent who can freeze himself and his surroundings by consuming a small pill. Their powers produce a stalemate, but Jack only captures him temporarily.
FeaturingBlue Fire
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Fire [Jack Knapp] (introduction, origin); The Frost (introduction)
NotesThe story was intended to continue in the next issue, but Centaur Publications, Inc. cancelled all of its titles and folded. Script credit from Who's Who.
 
ActivityBoys--Girls! Solve this Puzzle!
CreditsLetters: typeset
 
SynopsisOn Saturn, the dwarf scientist Quino sends Solarman to help the people of Earth. His first assignment is to capture a fugitive gangster attempting to leave the country on a forged passport and bring him to justice.
FeaturingSolarman
ContentGenre: Science Fiction; Superhero | Characters: Solarman (introduction, origin); Quino (Saturian scientist, introduction); Al Ravoni (villain, gangster); Joe (villain); Tony (villain)
NotesScript credit from Who's Who.
 
SynopsisThe Sparkler must track down Queen Marie and her mob who are smuggling diamonds.
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: The Sparkler [Red Morgan]
NotesScript credit from Who's Who.
 
Comic StoryHow the Buzzard Came to Be! (7 pages)
SynopsisThe Mayor gives an unidentified man a device that produces a gas that makes all see him as the "nemesis of the underworld", The Buzzard (an odd man in tails with glasses, a large beak-like nose and a receding hairline)! When the Chief of Police hears that his forces have a gang cornered in a building, he rushes to the scene, expressing his annoyance over his son Flash's presence in the police department. To his dismay, the Buzzard routs the gang before the police can do anything. Flash and his girlfriend are amused by the Chief's frustration, as they know that Flash is in fact the Buzzard.
FeaturingBuzzard
CreditsScript: Martin Filchock [as Filchock] (signed) | Pencils: Martin Filchock [as Filchock] (signed) | Inks: Martin Filchock [as Filchock] (signed)
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: The Buzzard [Flash] (introduction, origin); The Mayor (introduction); The Police Chief (introduction); Flash's girlfriend (introduction)
NotesTechnically, the title applies to the three-panel strip that briefly gives the Buzzard's origin before the main story starts. Writing credit from Who's Who.
 
Text StoryLight Signals (2 pages)
SynopsisBlue Fire corners the Frost and his spy Tanya, preventing them from attacking an ocean liner. But they escape his grasp once more.
FeaturingBlue Fire
CreditsScript:? [as Eric Reid] | Pencils: Frank Thomas? [as F. T.] (signed) | Inks: Frank Thomas? [as F. T.] (signed) | Letters: typeset
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Fire [Dick Knapp] (name was Jack Knapp in the lead story); The Frost; Tanya Gerhst (introduction)
NotesWho's Who identifies Eric Reid as a byline.
 
SynopsisProfessor Larry Hunter is detoured on his way to a lecture and is imprisoned by Dr. Z, who has been studying the same topics of thought reception. Dr. Z forces Larry to work to complete his thought receiver, but with the help of fellow captive Mary Brown and the now-working receiver, Larry and Mary both escape. Larry vows to use the receiver to fight crime.
FeaturingLarry Hunter
CreditsPencils: Patrick Weld (signed) | Inks: Patrick Weld (signed)
ContentCharacters: Larry Hunter (introduction, origin)
 
SynopsisSpark uses radio to help the police catch a gang that's been blowing up buildings.
FeaturingSpark O'Leary
CreditsPencils: Charles Pearson [as Chas Pearson] (signed) | Inks: Charles Pearson [as Chas Pearson] (signed)
ContentGenre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Spark O'Leary
 
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FeaturingJeb Tinker
CreditsPencils: Arthur Hoffman (signed) | Inks: Arthur Hoffman (signed)
ContentGenre: Detective-mystery
 
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ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: Craig Carter; Nikky Darnier; Professor Darnier; Zeus; Pluto; Thor
NotesScript credit from Who's Who.
 
IllustrationBerg "Stout Fellow" (1 page)
ContentGenre: Non-fiction; Animal
 
FeaturingWilson Chem. Co., Inc.
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesInside back cover. Some panels tinted pink, otherwise black and white.
 
FeaturingJohnson Smith & Company
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesBack cover.
 
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