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| Where's Miss Liberty?
Is Miss Liberty all MLJ reprints? |
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| Publication | 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | Steel Sterling appears in the cover art but does not appear in any interior stories in this comic.
Appears to be a traced swipe of Irv Novick’s original art from page 10 of the Steel Sterling story from Zip Comics (Archie, 1940 Series) #46. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Miss Liberty (inset) |
| Notes | Steel Sterling appears in the cover art but does not appear in any interior stories in this comic.
Appears to be a traced swipe of Irv Novick’s original art from page 10 of the Steel Sterling story from Zip Comics (Archie, 1940 Series) #46. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | There is no "Miss Liberty" character in any interior story. The contents listed are the same as for Shield-Wizard Comics #13 and includes the cover. |
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| Comic Story | The Invasion (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. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: 4-L (agent); Mr. Smith; Nazi commander (villain); the Nazis (villains, some fake deaths) |
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| Comic Story | Devils of the Deep (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. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Fritz Kessel (villain, a Nazi spy, death); unnamed Nazi Kapitan (villain, death); Nazi sailors (villains, all die) |
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| Text Story | Blackmail (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. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Roger Callway (former government worker); Donald Callway (Roger's son); Bill Cramer; three Nazi agents (villains) |
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| Comic Story | Merchants of Murder (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. |
| Content | 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) |
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| Credits | Pencils: Bill Vigoda [as Wm. Vigoda] (signed) | Inks: Bill Vigoda [as Wm. Vigoda] (signed) |
| Notes | House ad for 7 MLJ titles: Pep Comics, Top-Notch Laugh, Black Hood Comics, Zip Comics, Shield Wizard, Archie, and Jolly Jingles. |
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| Comic Story | The Little Rug That Wasn't There (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. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Imar the Mystic; some thugs (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Vain Robot (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. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Professor Westley (an inventor); Jonathon (a robot); Willy Blane (circus owner); Nazi soldiers (villains) |
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