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| The Captain Marvel story has a fun change of pace with college hi-jinks and a crooked coach. Interestingly, the bad guys aren't actually caught in this story. They just lose money betting against Cap's team, while the coach resigns in disgrace. |
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| That's strange. In this issue and the next Cap doesn't wear his cape, though it's still there on the cover and in the splash panel. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | Hurray For Captain Marvel! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] |
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| Comic Story | Mystery of Marvel College (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy is ordered to enroll at Marvel College and get the low-down on their football coach, Slug Samson, a former convict. As Captain Marvel, he must stop the coach from doing anything in his power to make the team lose the big game against State University. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Stereling Morris; Dean Scroggle (Dean of Marvel College); Ben Strang (football team Captain); Costanza [Pete Costanza] (Marvel College football player); Slug Samson (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Except for the masthead, Captain Marvel wears no cape in the story.
The last panel of the story states that Whiz Comics #12 would be on sale November 22nd.
Inker revision from Beck to Costanza by Craig Delich (see note below).
Beck sometimes drew Pete Costanza into some of the Captain Marvel stories, such as this one, which Costanza then inked. Information verified by P. C. Hamerlinck in Alter Ego #126 (July 2014) and added by Craig Delich. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Black Bill (Villain; Intro); Hatchet Jones (Villain; Intro) |
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| Comic Story | Terror on Thunder Island (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Baron Von Graff (Villain; Intro; Death) |
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| Comic Story | South American Sabotage (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Spy; Superhero | Characters: The Mask (Villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Pirate Sub of Nantucket (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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| Text Story | Death's Turnpike (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
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| Synopsis | Okoro trains vampire bats to feed on the Blancas. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Maxinya; Okoro (Villain); Doctor Voodoo [Hal Carey]; Nikko; Molomolo; Jappa (jaguar) |
| Notes | story continues in next issue. |
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| Comic Story | The Walking Sphinx (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Grom Deeters (Villain; Death) |
| Notes | story continues in next issue |
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