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| Date | | Number: 13 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Shield Wizard Comics 13 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Frequency: quarterly |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Japanese |
| Pencils | Harry Sahle ? Harry Sahle ? |
| Inks | Harry Sahle ? Harry Sahle ? |
| Advertisement | "Remove Ugly Blackheads or No Cost" / Vacutex Blackhead Remover (1 page) |
| Characters | Jim; Bob |
| Notes | Found on the inside front cover with indicia. Illustrated advertisement from the Ballco Products Company in New York for the Vacutex, which extracts ugly blackheads from a person's face. Available on a 10-day trial, cost being $1 plus postage. |
| Comic Story | The Invasion / The Shield with Dusty the Boy Detective (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Shield and Dusty take part in a play production to convince Americans to support the war effort. In the play, the pair make their way to the underground in a small town and are advised that the Nazis are bringing in a munitions train, which the duo wish to blow up. However, an American, who believes that the Germans are not so bad, betray the crimefighters to the German commander. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | 4-L (agent); Mr. Smith; Nazi commander (villain); the Nazis (villains, some fake deaths) |
| Script | Bill Vigoda |
| Pencils | Bill Vigoda |
| Inks | Bill Vigoda |
| Notes | The artwork is identical to the next Shield story in this issue signed by Vigoda. Compare the special way of running and the many close up faces and rapid inking. |
| Comic Story | Devils of the Deep / The Shield with Dusty the Boy Detective (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Shield and Dusty spot an F.B.I.-wanted spy at Coney Island and watch him boarding a Nazi submarine. They soon board the vessel but are overcome by gas, and the Shield is packed in a coffin and dumped into the sea to drown. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Fritz Kessel (villain, a Nazi spy, death); unnamed Nazi Kapitan (villain, death); Nazi sailors (villains, all die) |
| Script | Bill Vigoda (signed) |
| Pencils | Bill Vigoda (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Vigoda (signed) |
| Text Story | Blackmail / The Shield (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Shield helps a former government worker to save his son, who has been kidnapped by the Germans and forced to pay blackmail to them. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Roger Callway (former government worker); Donald Callway (Roger's son); Bill Cramer; three Nazi agents (villains) |
| Comic Story | Merchants of Murder / The Wizard (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A parrot is being used as a spy messenger by the Nazis, and it's up to the Wizard to investigate the activities of a suspect munitions company. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | unnamed U.S. Army general; Jim (F.B.I. agent, cameo); Mr. Dorman (munitions manufacturer); Mary (villain, a parrot); fake Dorman (villain); fake Dorman's partner (villain) |
| Pencils | Warren King |
| Inks | Warren King |
| Notes | Face close-ups with long nose are found in many signed Vigoda stories, but it also looks very much like Ed Robbins. Art credits suggested by the Who's Who. ODDITY: After throwing his cape into a wind machine to save his life, the Wizard races away to get the villains, wearing the cape, which is never seen again in the story. |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Pencils | Bill Vigoda (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Vigoda (signed) |
| First Line | MLJ Leads the Way |
| Notes | House advertisement for 7 MLJ titles: Pep Comics, Top-Notch Laugh, Black Hood Comics, Zip Comics, Shield-Wizard, Archie, and Jolly Jingles. Feature characters shown to the covers. |
| Comic Story | The Little Rug That Wasn't There / Roy the Super-Boy (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Roy gets a job as a salesman in a rug department in order to earn money to buy the Wizard a Christmas present and meets a mystic with a flying carpet. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Imar the Mystic; some thugs (villains) |
| Notes | Original indexer must have confused the Dusty strip with the Roy strip. Story title corrected by Dick Sabo via the GCD Error Tracker. Roy is thinking about buying Christmas presents in this story. |
| Comic Story | The Vain Robot! / The Wizard with Roy the Super-Boy (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | A thinking and speaking robot escapes from his inventor and finds a Nazi training camp. It's up to the Wizard and Roy to track him down, and they find him at a circus as a side-show performer. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Professor Westley (an inventor); Jonathon (a robot); Willy Blane (circus owner); Nazi soldiers (villains) |
| Pencils | Al Camy (signed) |
| Inks | Al Camy (signed) |
| Notes | The Wizard's next appearance in Fly Man #33. Roy's next appearance in Mighty Crusaders #4. |
| Advertisement | Pickwick Books (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Found on the inside back cover. Illustrated advertisement from the Pickwick Company in New York for a series of books published by their form, including books on Police wrestling, Police Jiu-Jitsu, judo, French, boxing, tap dancing, and more. |
| Advertisement | American Seeds (1 page) |
| Pencils | ?; ? (photo) |
| Inks | ?; ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Uncle Sam; Gene Autry; boy and girl (photo) |
| Notes | Found on the back cover. Illustrated (and with photo) advertisement from the American Seed Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, asking readers to send for their Big Prize Book and 40 packages of seeds to sell for 10 cents per pack, which they can apply to prizes they can win, such as a Gene Autry guitar, candid-type camera, axe and telescope set, and many more. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |

