The designs on it are unmistakably Arabic! It might even have come from the ancient Arabian Nights era! 
Whiz Comics #108 is an issue of the series Whiz Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1949.
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Magic Coat"
Once, a wicked king ordered a tailor to make him a splendid coat, but ordered the tailor to be beheaded when he asked for payment. Just before his execution, the tailor cursed the coat so that it would change whoever wore it into their opposite. This led to the king's death, when a royal guard saw him as a pathetic peasant sitting on the throne and impaled him for his impudence.
In the modern day the coat turns up in a second hand store in Fawcett City. An honest man puts it on and becomes a thief, and a hobo becomes a rich man when he wears it. Captain Marvel collects it after these strange incidents and takes it to a museum where the beautiful curator looks into it, and then puts it on, the coat's curse turning her into an ugly hag. When Billy comes to check up on the results of her research, she flings it at him in a fury, and the coat turns Billy into a simpleton.
Sterling Morris tries to get Billy to read the name on Shazam's picture as it hangs on the wall. Billy manages to babble out the name and becomes Captain Marvel, who tries to intercept some thieves speeding by. He gets bowled over by their car and has none of his strength, until the coat's torn off by the crooks' combined attack. Realizing the danger the coat poses, Cap burns it in an alleyway.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Magic Coat"
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Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- An Evil King (Flashback only)
Other Characters:
- A Magic Tailor (Flashback only)
- "Honest" Mike (Single appearance)
- "Hobo" Henry
- A Librarian
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- WHIZ Radio
- A Secondhand Store
- A Historical Museum
- New York City
Items:
- Magic Coat (Destroyed)
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Synopsis for Golden Arrow, the Robin Hood of the West: "Winged Victory"
On the edge of Dry Gulch, Blue Hawk, a Native outlaw, and his unnamed partner arrive in town to bilk the locals out $10 apiece for the “chance” to defeat Blue Hawk in marksmanship. Blue Hawk mysteriously does better than everyone until Golden Arrow arrives, but Blue Hawk and his partner agree to let him soon. The outlaws offer that Blue Hawk was “tired” after beating everyone else that day and they should have a return match next week. To make sure they'll win, they break into Golden Arrow's house to give him loaded arrows that will not fire straight. The next day, they drum up bets for who will win and have “Ole Zeke” Peters hold the money. They start for best of 3 with Blue Hawk starting and manages to get an inner ring and a bullseye shot. Golden Arrow manages to sense his arrows are weighted, but can't change that, so he instead adjusts his aim and fires sideways, making one arrow almost carry the other to hit a double bullseye! Blue Hawk and his partner decide to just whip a blanket over Old Zeke's head and try to run off, but are stopped when Golden Arrow fires the weighted arrows with the blanket to blind their horses, making them rear and get punched out by the Robin Hood of the West before he walks them to the Sheriff.
Appearing in Golden Arrow, the Robin Hood of the West: "Winged Victory"
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Antagonists:
- Blue Hawk
- Blue Hawk's Unnamed White Partner
Other Characters:
- "Old Zeke" Peters
- crowd of contestants and gamblers
Locations:
- Earth-S
- American Old West
- Dry Gulch
- American Old West
Items:
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Synopsis for Lance O'Casey: "The Bandit Birds!"
Lance O' Casey and 1st Mate Mike Bellew are out on a dock and with only a single silver dollar to their cumulative names due to not shipping for two months now. He offers if they should eat lunch or dinner. They decide to flip for it and their last dollar falls into the Pacific. Mike goes to jump for it, but Lance tells him there's a soft mud bottom here, so he's just not going to find. They decide to actually do work and decide to meet up at the pier to get some stevedore work, but they find that the local cargo ship is full up and leaving in a few minutes. Suddenly, a white haired man in a green suit dashes forward, but is too late to catch the ship. Lance says one will come next month, but the man insists he must be at Lafios Island within the week. They offer that they could take him and his cargo and the man agrees, pending good credentials, promising them a C-note if they can make it safe travel. He hands over a satchel for them to keep especially safe as Mike tries to ask for an advance payment, but the man in the green suit merely says he'll get his pay from an associate of his when they get to Lafios.
They're soon attacked by giant condors the size of airplanes attack the Starfish, with Lance being completely bowled over when one knocks him with one talon. Mike heads below deck to get the two ship guns for them, but the bird is already gone when Mike finds Lance isn't dead. What's worse, the condor definitely stole the satchel from them. Mike points out nobody would believe this as Lance agrees and charts a course for the bearing the bird was heading to. By light of dawn, they soon find an atoll covered by the enormous birds, dropping anchor and heading ashore. Within a coral cove, a small man with a beard receives the satchel and orders the Condors out to kill them. They find rocks they pick up are generally useless and one of the Condors steals Mike and drops him from a great height, tearing up his shirt and seemingly killing him! The bearded man appears to pull a gun on Lance and says he's joining them, but decides to brag about his Giant Condors and that he's famed mad ornithologist Professor Damien who didn't seemingly drown three years ago. Instead, he's been hiding out in the South Seas training Giant Condors and he's going to show those rotten liars at the University! He leads him by gunpoint to show off his condor eggs and that they newest ones can forage and plunder for him. The only issue is that these Giant Condors die very quickly, living only a week. Lance asks why he's telling him all this and Prof. Damien admits he wanted to tell someone, so he decided to tell someone known for not telling tales. Before he can shoot, a rock knocks the gun out of his hand and Mike appears, revealing he wasn't dead. Prof. Damien scarpers on to a Giant Condor and Lance has Mike hold off from chucking more rocks, since Prof. Damien mistakenly took an older Condor, which dies mid-flight, drowning him. Two days later, they make port at Lafios Island and turn over the satchel to another man in a green suit, finding out to their annoyance that their precious cargo was a stuffed Tibetan owl.
Appearing in Lance O'Casey: "The Bandit Birds!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- 1st Mate Mike Bellew
Antagonists:
- Professor Damien (Dies)
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- The South Seas
- Damien's island
- Lafios Island
- The South Seas
Items
- A Single Silver Dollar
Animals:
- Giant Condors (Dies)
- Stuffed Rare "Tibetian" Owl (Appears only as a corpse)
Vehicles:
- The Starfish
Synopsis for Freshman Freddy: "Tick-Tock"
Ace and Stooge see Freddy and Harriet walking together, upsetting Ace who wanted to walk with her. They decide to ruin Freddy's life and steal a ticking package off of Professor Grouch's doorstep. Ace runs up and discreetly tells Freddy that there's an armed bomb on Professor Grouch's porch and Ace insists he's not going to touch it. Freddy steels his courage and picks it up, running carefully and throwing it in a nearby lake. Meanwhile, Prof. Grouch has arrived home and finds his package is gone and Ace immediately fingers Freddy for it. Prof. Grouch angrily goes after him and throws him in the lake to go get it back. A man from a clock company arrives to speak with Prof. Grouch about the clock he needed, but when Freddy emerges from the water, it's alarm is going off still, despite having been underwater! The man from the clock company is agape at seeing the alarm works and promises Prof. Grouch a lot of big money for this and Prof. Grouch, in turn, tells Freddy he's going to be paid well too for helping to sell that clock so well! Behind him, Stooge is kicking Ace as he was told to do anytime he tried to get one over on Freddy, since he knows he'll come out on top!
Appearing in Freshman Freddy: "Tick-Tock"
Featured Characters:
- Freshman Freddy
Supporting Characters:
- Prof. Grouch
Antagonists:
- Ace
- Stooge
Other Characters:
- Harriet
Locations:
- Earth-S
- Podunk
- Podunk University
- Podunk
Items:
- Prof. Grouch's Waterproof Alarm Clock
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Synopsis for Ibis the Invincible: "Ibis the Invincible and the Menace of Gog and Magog"
A pair of envoys to a London peace conference are killed, the building crushed by what appears to have been a huge hand, prompting Scotland Yard to bring in Ibis. He and Taia investigate, finding not only a huge handprint but huge fingerprints to go with it. Ibis teleports them to a hall where statues of two demons, Gog and Magog, stand. He explains to Taia that there's a legend the two demons will return and destroy civilization, and murdering peace envoys might lead to another great war.
Indeed, as soon as Ibis and Taia are gone, the statues come to life and set out into the streets to kill them before they can warn anyone. The two demons smash the building where Ibis is staying, but he crawls out of the wreckage, unhurt. Like everyone else, as he'd used the Ibistick to make everyone in the building "impregnable". After restoring the building to as it once was, Ibis then flies to where Gog and Magog are about to carry about their insidious work, and magically turns their blood to wax, killing them.
Appearing in Ibis the Invincible: "Ibis the Invincible and the Menace of Gog and Magog"
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Other Characters:
- General Mauler
Locations:
Notes
- Also featured in this issue of Whiz Comics were:
- The Whiz Quiz (twice)
- Doc Sorebones: "Bad Advice"
- Wilbur the Waiter: "Plain Talk", and "Zip"
- Carey the Coach: "Sub-Normal"
- Comix Cards: "The Marvel Family"
- Ronnie: "Lost!"
- Wicky and O'Shawnessy: "Moitle the Toitle" (text story), by Rod Reed
- Abernathy the Author: "Old Enough!"
- The Culture Corner: "How to Keep a Cool Conk", by Basil Wolverton
- advertisement for the Captain Marvel Club
Trivia
- Despite the cover, Captain Marvel doesn't fly under the Brooklyn Bridge, nor does it show up. No less, he doesn't fly at all, making it a rare issue where he doesn't!
- In the real world, the original Gog and Magog, created by Capt. Richard Saunders in 1709, were destroyed in the Blitz during the War. They wouldn't be replaced until David Evans carved a new pair in 1953.
- In the real world, they also more closely resemble warriors in armor, wielding weapons and wearing clothes, as opposed to two large pink men in blue togas with red shoes. They are also named "Gogmagog" and "Corineus" after supposed characters from Monmouth's The History of The Kings of Britain or from a corruption of the Book of Ezekiel.
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