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  • Whiz Comics Vol 1 5
Trivia
  • * The tagline for this issue is "Captain Marvel Scores Again".
Indicia Publisher
  • Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Letterer1
  • Bill Parker
Inker1
  • C.C. Beck
  • Pete Costanza
  • Bob Kingett
  • Greg Duncan
Inker1
  • C.C. Beck
  • Pete Costanza
  • Bob Kingett
  • Greg Duncan
Writer1
  • Bill Parker
Penciler1
  • C.C. Beck
  • Pete Costanza
  • Bob Kingett
  • Greg Duncan
Writer1
  • Bill Parker
StoryTitle
  • Captain Marvel: "The Slaves of Dr. Lake"
  • Dan Dare: "The Great Rollo Mystery"
  • Golden Arrow: "Enter: Carol Braddock"
  • Ibis the Invincible: "Showdown With Murder Malone"
  • Lance O'Casey: "The Bucket O' Blood"
  • Scoop Smith: "The Kingdom of Scorpia"
  • Spy Smasher: "Schlitzoff's Spy Plot"
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  • 0.1
Editor1
  • Bill Parker
Penciler1
  • C.C. Beck
  • Pete Costanza
  • Bob Kingett
  • Greg Duncan
Appearing
  • Featured Characters: * / Supporting Characters: * Adversaries: * Doctor Aloysius Lake * Mister Scar * Mister Chung Other Characters: * unnamed FBI Chief * Joe * Mr. Levy Locations: * ** ** *** Chinatown ** ** *** Nob Hill Items: * hypnotizing machines Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Carol Clews Adversaries: * Miss Montros * Rollo Other Characters: * Mr. Haskel * Marie Mynard * Luigi * Jack Storms Locations: * Items: * Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Adversaries: * * Other Characters: * Carol Braddock Locations: * 19th Century Items: * Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Adversaries: * * Other Characters: * Admiral Corby Locations: * Items: * Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * * Adversaries: * Other Characters: * Locations: * Items: * Vehicles: * Brian Boru
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Adversaries: * Murder Malone Other Characters: * Locations: * Items: * the of Prince Amentep Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Adversaries: * King Cortes Other Characters: * Bruce Lane Locations: * Items: * Vehicles: *
Letterer1
  • Bill Parker
Brand/Imprint
  • A Fawcett Publication
Editor1
  • Bill Parker
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CoverArtist
  • C.C. Beck
Country
  • USA
ReleaseDate
  • 1940-04-26(xsd:date)
Executive Editor
  • Wilford H. Fawcett
Issue
  • 5(xsd:integer)
Pages
  • 68(xsd:integer)
Links
  • * Captain Marvel at Wikipedia * Captain Marvel at Toonopedia * Captain Marvel at DCU Guide * Dan Dare at Wikipedia * Golden Arrow at Wikipedia * Golden Arrow at Toonopedia * Ibis the Invincible at Wikipedia * Ibis the Invincible at Toonopedia * Ibis the Invincible at DCU Guide * Lance O'Casey at Wikipedia * Marvel Family at Toonopedia * Scoop Smith at DCU Guide * Shazam at Wikipedia * Shazam at DCU Guide * Spy Smasher at Wikipedia * Spy Smasher at Toonopedia * Spy Smasher at DCU Guide * Whiz Comics article at Wikipedia * Whiz Comics series index at the Grand Comics Database * Whiz Comics #5 entire issue * Whiz Comics #5 index entry * Whiz Comics #5 spoilers
Volume
  • 1(xsd:integer)
Title
  • Whiz Comics
Day
  • 26(xsd:integer)
Month
  • 4(xsd:integer)
  • 6(xsd:integer)
Synopsis
  • After five years a careful planning, a phantom genius of crime perfects a fiendishly clever scheme for wholesale robbery. A crime wave sweeps America, $250 billion worth of it, done by preadolescent boy thieves, hypnotized and coordinated by local "Fagins" in several cities, using hypnotizing machines. In Washington DC, Mr. Scar runs one such ring, supervising burglaries and purse-snatchings, accumulating a fortune in gold watches and pen knives. Billy Batson joins this gang and gets hypnotized and sent out on a gem robbery, but fortunately gets hit in the head with a pistol butt during a simultaneous robbery in the same store; the K.O. destroys the brain-paralyzing effects of the hypnotizer. Captain Marvel takes out the adult robbers, and their getaway driver, then returns to Scar's abandoned-factory-basement hideout and busts him, and hypnotizes him; Scar tells what he knows but it's not much. Billy Batson spends a week in New York looking for one gang of Fagins, and eventually infiltrates it, and takes down another boss in Chinatown, but this one doesn't know the big picture either. Captain Marvel flies from New York to Chicago to San Francisco, breaking up gang after gang of hypnotized boy robbers. Finally, in a luxurious mansion in Nob Hill, after transforming from Billy Batson to Captain Marvel during a spanking, C.M. beats up Doctor Aloysius Lake, sinister inventor of the modern Fagin robbery ring.
  • In our previous episode the beautiful Taia had been kidnapped into the Ibisship speedplane by Murder Malone, ruthless killer and outlaw munitions maker; the plane takes off with Malone at the controls. Arriving late, Ibis the Invincible commands the Ibistick to create a supersensitive airplane detector, and a 400-mph monoplane, and pursues them, but by mistake chases a commercial airliner instead, then luckily finds a small clearing in a thick forest where the Ibisship has crashed. Ibis turns his own airplane into a parachute and lands at the spot, and gets jumped by a cougar which he turns into a fawn, then examines the Ibisship's wreckage and follows Malone's tracks into the woods. Along the way, Ibis neutralizes an electrified barbed-wire fence then encounters a rifle-toting guard, whom he turns into a duplicate of Rodin's statue "The Thinker." He finds Malone's cabin, where Taia is being menaced by Malone with a bullwhip; Ibis plays some preliminary pranks on Malone, then confronts him, while turning a kitten into a wildcat and then into a straightjacket. Taia is freed but then two thugs jump Ibis from behind and wrest away the Ibistick and hand it to Malone. Malone tries to use the stick to turn Ibis into a toad, this backfires on him; then Ibis turns the two thugs into toads as well. He turns the wreckage of the Ibisship into a new autogiro, and he and Taia fly away. En route to New Thebes, over the ocean, Ibis accidentally drops the Ibistick out of the canopy and it falls towards the ocean. To be continued!
Notes
  • * "The Slaves of Dr. Scar" is reprinted in Shazam Archives, Volume 1. ** Billy Batson gets knocked unconscious with a pistol butt, the first concussion of his long career. ** Confronting a tommy-gun-wielding robber, "Captain Marvel holds his hand over the barrel and the machine gun explodes in the gangster's face." It's hard to understand how the robber is not killed by this move. * Ibis the Invincible, body count: Ibis has now killed one submarine crew, turned two guys into statues, and turned four guys into animals. * Also appearing in this issue of Whiz Comics were: ** Lance O'Casey: "Sea Dogs" ** "The Convict's Ghost"
quotation
  • Your boss is lonely - I think you'd better become toads too.
Publisher
  • Fawcett Publications
Year
  • 1940(xsd:integer)
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