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Shield-Wizard
Date | Number: 1 | Lang: English (en)
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   By Peter B. Gillis
I have to say, the Wizard origin stuff is much wilder than I expected. To date, the only strips I'd read were him in present day, and didn't impress me in the slightest. But the idea of a revolutionary war super-hero inventing airplanes, radio (and steamboats!) is really stimulating fun. And it's well-handled on top of it. I am digging this.
   By Peter B. Gillis
Oh wait...This is the ancestor of the modern day wizard. Not quite as cool--it'd be more fun having the modern Wiz be a couple hundred years old--but it's still, for 1940, one of the only stories from that era that I'd say, "Hey--read this one!"
  
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PublicationSummer 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly
 
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: The Spirit of '76
 
 
Comic StoryThe Origin of the Shield (12 pages)
SynopsisWhen his father is killed by German spies in 1916, young Joe Higgins continues his work to create a formula to give a person super strength and invulnerability. He uses those powers to clear his late father's reputation involving the Black Tom explosion.
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: J. Edgar Hoover; Lt. Tom Higgins (Joe's father, introduction, death); Dick (District Attorney); Hans Fritz (villain, introduction); unnamed Nazi spies (villains)
NotesStory takes place chronologically before Pep Comics #1.
 
Comic StoryThe Origin of the Shield: Part 2 (10 pages)
SynopsisJoe Higgins joins the F.B.I and goes on his first case to rescue John Ingot from kidnappers.
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: J. Edgar Hoover; John Ingot (introduction); Ruby Ingot (John's daughter, introduction); unnamed company guards (villains, introduction for all)
NotesNext chronological Shield appearance is in Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) #1 (January 1940).
 
Comic StoryLou Zefke's Murder Syndicate (8 pages)
SynopsisJoe Higgins and Ju Ju Watson are sent to investigate why all the witnesses in Lou Zefke's trial end up dead.
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: J. Edgar Hoover; unnamed District Attorney; unnamed Mayor; Ilia Morgan (introduction); Ilia's father (death); Lou Zefke (villain, introduction); unnamed lawyer for Zefke (villain)
 
NotesShows the cover of Pep Comics #7.
 
Text StoryThe Vampire Murders (2 pages)
SynopsisThe Shield fights a vampire.
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: J. Edgar Hoover; John Bascom; Jean Bascom
 
Comic StoryThe Historical Story of Blane Whitney (11 pages)
SynopsisThe story of the first Wizard who fought in the Revolutionary War.
ContentGenre: Historical; Superhero | Characters: John Whitney (Blane's father, death); Mary Whitney (Blane's mother); Grover Whitney (Blane's brother); General George Washington; Paul Revere; Thomas Jefferson; Samuel Adams; Ezra Sellers (villain, introduction); the Indians (villains); the British (villains)
 
Comic StoryThe Battle of Bunker Hill (11 pages)
SynopsisThe Wizard helps out with several battles of the Revolutionary War.
ContentGenre: Historical; Superhero | Characters: General George Washington; Nathan Hale; James Blane (Blane's uncle, introduction); The British (villains); General Rahl; Ezra Sellers
NotesAll stories take place during the Revolutionary War.
 
Comic StoryThe Treason of Benedict Arnold (8 pages)
SynopsisThe Wizard helps with more battles in the Revolutionary War.
ContentGenre: Historical; Superhero | Characters: General George Washington; Colonel Benedict Arnold (villain); the British (villains); Ezra Sellers (villain, death); General Henry Cornwallis (villain); Major John Andre (villain, introduction); Mad Anthony Wayne; General Gates; Admiral De Grasse
 
NotesShows the cover of Top-Notch Comics #8.
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesRemington Rand Inc. Back cover.
 
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