| Additional Information |
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| Publication | March 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] |
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| Comic Story | The Origin of Dr. Sivana (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy is awarded the trophy for doing the most outstanding radio work for the year. Later, he takes Beautia out to eat and is accosted by some thugs. Not realizing they work for Sivana, Billy soon learns of the evil scientist's Ultra-Frequency device, which is so delicately tuned that it can cancel out, by interference, Billy's magic word which turns him into Captain Marvel. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson); Sterling Morris; Beautia Sivana (origin); the Glompers (giant frogs from Venus); Sivana's un-named father (flashback); Thaddeus Bodog Sivana [aka Dr Footu Yu] (villain, origin in flashback); Magnificus Sivana (villain, Sivana's son, introduction, origin); Rocco (villain) |
| Notes | The last name of Beautia and relationship with Sivana is revealed.
Next appearance of Magnificus Sivana is in World's Finest Comics (DC) #253. |
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| Comic Story | The Crimes of the Crystal (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Companions Three [Don (introduction); Spike (introduction); Nifty (introduction)]; The Crystal (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Next appears in MASTER COMICS #14 |
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| Comic Story | The Taming of El Tigre (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: El Tigre (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Corruption of Spy Smasher (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Eve is kidnapped by Grosso, who is under the spell of the Mask, but Spy Smasher is on the spot, saving her and killing the giant kidnapper. However, Alan is ambushed by another of the Mask's men and is taken to the lair of the villain, who discovers Spy Smasher's true identity, then subjects him to the Brainograph. Now an evil menace to democratic society, Spy Smasher turns on the Mask and kills him, but Captain Marvel promises to stop him at all costs. |
| Content | Genre: Spy; Superhero | Characters: Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] (cameo); Eve Corby; Admiral Corby; Jane; The Mask (villain, death); Grosso (villain, death) |
| Notes | Part 1 of Captain Marvel vs. Spy Smasher storyline, which continues in the Captain Marvel story in next issue. |
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| Comic Story | The Air Pirates (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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| Text Story | Fire Devil (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Synopsis | Hal and handful of Blancas are captured by the army of a surviving Inca city. The queen of the city demands Hal's hand in marriage until her fountain of youth fails her. On returning to the Blanca village, Hal is detained by a Japanese national, demanding to know the location of Maxwell Webb's diamond mine. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Queen Zoe (introduction, death); Doctor Voodoo [Hal Carey]; Tola; Mopolo; Doctor Hashimura |
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| Comic Story | The Giant Spider (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Trug (villain); Rimson (villain, death) |
| Notes | story continues in next issue |
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| Publisher advertisement | Captain Marvel's in the Movies! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Captain Marvel |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] |
| Notes | Illustrated promotional advertisement on the inside back cover, with figure of Captain Marvel, for the Captain Marvel serial from Republic Pictures. A coupon is included for readers to send to the Editor of Whiz Comics on which they can list the name of the theatre and its address so that the editor can notify the proper people to feature the serial at that theatre. |
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