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Publication | June 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
Notes | Possibly the first appearance of a television on the cover of an American comic. |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong] |
Notes | Possibly the first appearance of a television on the cover of an American comic. |
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Contents | In This Issue (1 page) |
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Comic Story | Sabotage at the Printing Plant (15 pages) |
Synopsis | The Nazis try to stop Whiz Comics from being printed. |
Content | 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) |
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Comic Story | Spy Smasher Discovers the Streamlined Treasure Island! (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. |
Content | Genre: Spy; Superhero | Characters: Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Boy King; the Japanese (villains); the Nazis (villains) |
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). |
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Comic Story | Golden Arrow and the Petrified Forest (9 pages) |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Golden Arrow [Roger Parsons] |
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Comic Story | The Mystery of the Ghost Destroyer (8 pages) |
Content | Genre: Adventure |
Notes | Story title corrected June 2009. |
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Text Story | As Good as Dead (2 pages) |
Credits | Script: Ray Tender | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War |
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Comic Story | The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil (10 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Devil; Nero; Brutus; Robespierre |
Notes | Story based on Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster".
Among Hebberd's trademarks are googly eyes and high arched eyebrows. |
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