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Whiz Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1949.
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Son of Shazam"
Another expedition returns from Egypt and opens an ancient urn, which releases a man who claims to be the son of Shazam the wizard. He even conjures Shazam's specter to verify it, who demands complete obedience from Captain Marvel for his son's plans. At first, nothing seems wrong with this, as Shazam Jr. wants to use Captain Marvel's notoriety to raise money to build a temple that will feed the poor and treat the sick. However, Shazam Jr. reveals he expects total dedication to this cause, which involves not taking breaks to fight crime. Cap flies to the Rock of Eternity to try to reconcile this. Shazam tells him yes, he did have a son, but Marvel flies back before hearing the whole story. As soon as he's back on Earth, Cap sees a poster for a magic performance. He notes the magician looks just like Shazam Jr. He confronts the wizard's supposed progeny and gets him to admit it was all an act; the thieves he wouldn't let Cap apprehend were robbing for him during their fundraising, and he was faking his ability to summon Shazam's ghost. Who appears to say Captain Marvel is his true son.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Son of Shazam"
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- Shazam Jr. (Magico)
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Synopsis for Golden Arrow: "Golden Arrow, the Robin Hood of the West and the Duo of Crime"
A disgruntled farmer, "Old Man" Forbes, is furious that the railroad office is "killing" his steers in Dry Gulch wandering on to the tracks and threatens he'll blow up the railroad some day! Two bandits, Arizoni and Sly-Eye, overhear it and decide to frame him for it so they can steal a shipment of gold. Golden Arrow catches them murdering one of his steers with a hammer (to pretend he was hit by a train) and they manage to only knock him out, tie him to the tracks and plant the dynamite they're soon to set off on top of him. Golden Arrow wriggles loose by cutting his bonds on the dead steer's horn, shooting the plunger to detonate the dynamite and punches out the bandits, earning him thanks from the Sheriff of Dry Gulch.
Appearing in Golden Arrow: "Golden Arrow, the Robin Hood of the West and the Duo of Crime"
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- Arizoni
- Sly-Eye
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- "Old Man" Forbes
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- Earth-S
- Dry Gulch
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Synopsis for Lance O'Casey: "Lancy O'Casey meets Longo of the Congo"
Lance and Mike have returned from a troublesome voyage with the Starfish in disrepair and only $400 worth of copra sold to pay to fix it! They stay at the apparently lousy Hotel Las Palma at the high price of $12 a day. They are met shockingly by a little person bellhop offering them complimentary lemonade and offering them cigars, who says his name is Longo of the Congo. Lance notes this is a name meaning "The Tall One" and that it's usually given to the King of the Gnomes. Mike foolishly assumes that the Congo is an island where a tribe of gnomes live as Lance goes to sleep. However, we soon find this is entirely the case when Longo is kidnapped by Gnomes that are strong enough to punch out two grown sailors for a few minutes, which only drives them to a minimum of excising vengeance. The Gnomes of the Congo try to use curare blowguns, holding them off.
Back on Congo Island, Longo is upset that he is forced into marrying a traditionally-unattractive woman named Drupsa, who taunts him for having left. Having waited until the blowguns stopped to take off again, Lance just walks in to Longo's chambers and learns that the only reason Longo has to marry Drupsa is because she's the daughter of the High Priest. The next morning, the High Priest tries to marry them, but the two totem poles speak that the High Priest has done wrong and they are disgusted by him. Another openly points out that these are fakes and that they are lying, only for one of the "totems" to punch him in the head, order that the marriage cannot take place and let Drupsa be stuck as a spinster. Later, Lance and Mike laugh about how they didn't actually save Longo and ruined his marriage and if they'll even see him again!
Appearing in Lance O'Casey: "Lancy O'Casey meets Longo of the Congo"
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- 1st Mate Mike Bellew
- Longo of the Congo (First appearance)
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- The High Priest of Congo Island
- Drupsa
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- Earth-S
- Congo Island
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- The Starfish
Synopsis for Freshman Freddy: "Freshman Freddy and the Baby Face Bandit"
Freddy is driving his hoopty of a jalopy, hoping it will actually get him back to school at all, since if he has to walk and he spent all his money on vacation. He then does this especially poorly by driving into a ditch. Spying an elderly farmer, he asks if he can help him untrench his car from this ditch, but the cowpoke tells him that this is the third one that month and that the only thing he can do is jump out so he doesn't sink with it! Freddy worries that he's now wet and will have to walk, so the Farmer offers him some clothes on lend until his are dry and Freddy decides to walk around the presumably small town in this area. He soon finds the Cactus Gulch Hotel (the only one in town) and heads in, only for the other four men there to totally freak out and throw money at him before running away. Freddy soon finds on the wall that this is because the “Baby Face Bandit” is wanted to the high price of $5,000 (Over $63K today!) for “every crime you can imagine!” Freddy mildly tries to tell them he's not the wanted killer, arsonist and embezzler, only to be suddenly grabbed by a lariat, then dragged for several miles by horse in cactus-laden wasteland.
This torture continues until they stop in the badlands and we find that the rider is the real Baby Face Bandit, who wants to switch clothes with Freddy, demanding that for “impersonating” him, he's stealing his shoes and leaves him to walk back to town as well, but now barefoot too! Back in town, the Farmer reasonably tells the hotel owner that Freddy didn't shoot anyone while he was there, so he's likely not the killer, so the hotel owner instead decides that Freddy was willfully trying to imitate a known criminal to scare them for fun and go after him! Luckily, when they find him and immediately disarm the gun from his hand before knocking him out with a beam to the head, do they find that Freddy is coming along behind him on barefoot and that they accidentally caught the real Baby Face Bandit! The Farmer points out that technically Freddy did actually manage to (by accident) gave them all the nerve to catch the Bandit and Freddy just has a very mild-faced breakdown how he's really tired and broke and confused and can't get back to school easily at all, so the townsfolk seem to give him a decent-looking red sedan to drive back in as reward for catching the Bandit and Freddy notes that he's not handsome, but he's happy he looks like he does now!
Appearing in Freshman Freddy: "Freshman Freddy and the Baby Face Bandit"
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- Freshman Freddy
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- An Unnamed Kindly Farmer
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- The Baby Face Bandit
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Synopsis for Ibis the Invincible: "Ibis the Invincible and the Skull of Evil"
Professor Rehan returns from an expedition to Assyria with what's reputed to be the skull of Ba-Zhan, a black magician so evil his infamy had spread to the ancient Egypt Ibis and Taia came from. Ba-Zhan's spirit still inhabits his skull, and as Rehan dreams, he tries to take over the scholar's body to live again. The newly incarnated Ba-Zhan conjures a pterodactyl and flies to rid himself of Ibis, so the heroic wizard can pose no threat to his evil ambitions. Although Ibis manages to destroy the savage Saurian, Ba-Zhan's own magic powers protect him from the magic flames conjured to destroy the evil wizard himself. Ibis resorts to more mundane methods to see off his enemy, punching Ba-Zhan from behind as he tries to air-walk away out the window and breaking his concentration. This causes the evil wizard to fall to his death on the street below.
Appearing in Ibis the Invincible: "Ibis the Invincible and the Skull of Evil"
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- The Skull of Ba-Zhan (Destroyed)
- A Pterosaur
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- Prof. Waldo Rehan (Dies)
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Trivia
- Despite the cover, "Shazam, Jr." does not sit on his father's throne at either his Secret Subway Cave or the Rock of Eternity. He also never uses a flailing mace either.
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