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| Date | | Number: 43 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Notes | June 9, 1943 - 400 dpi scan of a coverless comic. Front and back covers from Heritage, inside back cover from fiche. Inside front cover recreated from color version of the ad found in Wow Comics #14, fiche copy included for completion. No matching paper copy of the IBC ad could be found, but a very close copy from Exciting Comics #27 has been included as a bonus for readability. Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher have two-page opening spreads which have been combined into a single image. The individual pages are included after the rest of the book for those who would rather read it that way. Featuring Captain Marvel, Spy Smasher, Golden Arrow, Lance O'Casey, and Ibis the Invincible! There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page | |||
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| Additional Information | |
| Name | Whiz Comics 43 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 38, Numbers 1-4. January-December 1943. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 586226. Fawcett also reported to the Copyright Office that this issue was still volume 7 and that the publication date was June 9. Neither appeared in this actual issue printed. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong] |
| Pencils | C. C. Beck |
| Inks | Pete Costanza ? |
| First Line | Have you seen the sinister spies on page 19? |
| Notes | Possibly the first appearance of a television on the cover of an American comic. |
| Contents | In This Issue (1 page) |
| Comic Story | Sabotage at the Printing Plant / Captain Marvel / Shazam! (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Nazis try to stop Whiz Comics from being printed. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Ibis; Golden Arrow [Roger Parsons]; Captain Marvel. Jr. [Freddy Freeman] (cameo); Steamboat; Rod Reed (? appears); Adolf Hitler (villain); the Nazis (villains) |
| Pencils | C. C. Beck |
| Inks | C. C. Beck |
| Comic Story | Spy Smasher Discovers the Streamlined Treasure Island! / Spy Smasher (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spy Smasher discovers a modern-day Treasure Island when he is forced to defend a small island in the Atlantic from invading Japanese and German forces. |
| Genre | Spy; Superhero |
| Characters | Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Boy King; the Japanese (villains); the Nazis (villains) |
| Script | Otto Binder |
| Pencils | Alex Blum |
| Inks | Alex Blum |
| Notes | Story based on Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND. Art revision from Emil Gershwin to Blum by Craig Delich 2013-10-24, per Otto Binder in article in Alter Ego #121 (November 2013). |
| Comic Story | Golden Arrow and the Petrified Forest / Golden Arrow (9 pages) |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Golden Arrow [Roger Parsons] |
| Pencils | Harry Parkhurst |
| Inks | Harry Parkhurst |
| Comic Story | The Mystery of the Ghost Destroyer / Lance O'Casey (8 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Notes | Story title corrected June 2009. |
| Text Story | As Good as Dead (2 pages) |
| Script | Ray Tender |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | War |
| Comic Story | The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil / Ibis the Invincible (10 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Devil; Nero; Brutus; Robespierre |
| Pencils | Bob Hebberd ? |
| Inks | Bob Hebberd |
| Notes | Story based on Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster". Among Hebberd's trademarks are googly eyes and high arched eyebrows. |
| 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 | |
