Whiz Comics #27 is an issue of the series Whiz Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1942.
Synopsis for "The Redskin Riddle"
Billy's invited to do a report on the isolationist Katonka Indians, but everyone's surprised when Skullface, the god of the tribe, denounces chief Maha for allowing a white man into their civilization. Skullface orders Maha and his family banished, and Billy becomes Captain Marvel and easily helps carry all of Maha's worldly possessions away. In the wilderness, Maha tells Marvel that Skullface has always advised their people well before, including leading them to the land they currently inhabit. Deciding to go back and try to talk some sense into the tribe, but knowing they'll never listen to Captain Marvel after he pummeled all their warriors before, the hero changes to Billy to make his appeal. There he meets Hokan, a city-educated man who reveals to Billy there's a very valuable secret hidden on the tribe's land, and is offering to cut him in when Skullface suddenly appears and denounces Hokan as a traitor too.
The two of them are about to be burned at the stake, but Billy just says his magic word and Captain Marvel easily fights the entire tribe off. Finding out Hokan fled into the mountains, Marvel pursues him and finds the secret: caves laden with valuable tungsten ore. Marvel changes back to Billy to inform the tribe, only to be noosed by Skullface and unable to say his word. When the boy's about to be hanged, suddenly a second Skullface saves him before attacking the first. The original Skullface is revealed to be Hokan, who loses the fight because with his city-born education he doesn't have the skills of a wilderness warrior. He wanted Maha thrown out so he could become chief and secretly profit from the tungsten. The second Skullface was Maha, the original chief.
Marvel tells the tribe about the tungsten to make sure they all become wealthy from it, and in gratitude the tribe makes him an honorary chief.
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Synopsis for "Golden Arrow"
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Synopsis for "Spy Smasher"
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Synopsis for "Lance O'Casey"
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Synopsis for "Dr. Voodoo"
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Synopsis for Ibis the Invincible: "The Flying Dutchman"
While en route to a visit to Egypt, Ibis and Taia fly into the air to investigate the vibrations of dark supernatural forces: a ghost ship firing some very modern weapons at US Naval ships. Ibis returns the torpedo whence it came, but when he confronts the captain of the vessel, learns it's none other than the legendary Flying Dutchman, and its captain is under obligation to the Prince of Darkness sink ships or his own soul will descend to the inferno. Ibis tries to stop this supernatural rampage, but his magic fails to have any effect on the devil's work, and then when the Ibistick falls overboard from one of the ghost crewman trying to use its powers, prompting Ibis to dive after it.
While Ibis is wrestling his wand out of the gills of a marauding shark, the ghost captain boards their ship and kidnaps Taia, because a woman offering her love is the only way to escape his curse. She refuses, and when Ibis catches up to him again, the captain summons his demonic patron for aid, only for Taia to ward him off with magic powered by feminine love. She then does the same to the captain to end his scourge, although Taia sheds a tear of pity as his remains crumble to naught but a skeleton.
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- The Flying Dutchman and Ibis will meet again issue 37
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