Whiz Comics Vol 1 36

"Captain Marvel: "The Haunted Halloween Hotel"": Sterling Morris has a brother, Cuthbert, whose wife Priscilla is a fearsome opinionated woman who berates him into buying an old hotel for their home. Trying to get help from Sterling, Cuthbert inadvertently gives him the idea of rigging up the ol

Captain Marvel: "The Haunted Halloween Hotel"
Cover
Whiz Comics Vol 1 #36
October, 1942
Publisher	Fawcett Publications
Executive Editor	Ralph Daigh
Cover Artists	Ray Harford
Captain Marvel: "The Haunted Halloween Hotel"
Pencilers	Ray Harford
Inkers	Ray Harford
Editors	Rod Reed
Golden Arrow: "The Killer of Ghost Town"
Pencilers	Al Carreno
Inkers	Al Carreno
Spy Smasher: "The Misfortune Teller"
Pencilers	Alex Blum
Inkers	Binder Studio
Lance O'Casey: "The Isle of Lonely Gods"
Pencilers	Harry Anderson
Inkers	Harry Anderson
Ibis the Invincible: "The Black Witch!"
Pencilers	Bob Hebberd
Inkers	Bob Hebberd
Colonel Porterhouse: "Porterhouse the Invincible and the Phantom of Porterhouse Manor"
Pencilers	George Storm
Inkers	George Storm
Previous Issue	Whiz Comics # 35
Next Issue	Whiz Comics # 37

Have done with this unmanly blubbering --- a Porterhouse has never been known to triumph over a beaten adversary, sir.

— Colonel Porterhouse

Whiz Comics #36 is an issue of the series Whiz Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1942.

Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "The Haunted Halloween Hotel"

Sterling Morris has a brother, Cuthbert, whose wife Priscilla is a fearsome opinionated woman who berates him into buying an old hotel for their home. Trying to get help from Sterling, Cuthbert inadvertently gives him the idea of rigging up the old place to seem haunted to scare Priscilla out of wanting to buy it. At first Billy refuses to participate on moral grounds, then sees what Priscilla's like. He tries to hand the job of escorting her over to Captain Marvel, but a vision of the hero appears to him and refuses to have anything to do with that woman.

Unknown to the Morrises, the old hotel's been used as a hideout by a group of German spies. Chaos ensues as fake ghosts, spies, and an angry society wife collide. Things only become more shambolic as Captain Marvel continues to refuse to get involved and transforms back as quickly as possible whenever Billy calls him.

Appearing in Captain Marvel: "The Haunted Halloween Hotel"

Date:

• Halloween 1942

Featured Characters:

• Captain Marvel

Supporting Characters:

• Sterling Morris
• Steamboat

Antagonists:

• two German Spies, (Karl, Emil)
• U-boat Commander
  • U-boat landing party

Other Characters:

• Cuthbert Morris (Sterling Morris' brother)
• Priscilla Morris (Sterling Morris's sister-in-law) (First appearance)
• Sid Winker (a ghost)
• Gramps, WHIZ sound engineer
• Son, WHIZ sound engineer

Locations:

• Earth-S
  • New York City
    • WHIZ Radio
    • Morris' Mansion, near the ocean

Vehicles:

• German Submarine
  

Appearing in Golden Arrow: "The Killer of Ghost Town"

Date:

• Halloween

Featured Characters:

• Golden Arrow

Supporting Characters:

• White Wind, his stallion

Antagonists:

• Murch, as King Kade's Ghost (First appearance)

Locations:

• American Old West
  • Ghost Town

Items:

• 
  

Vehicles:

• 
  
  

Appearing in Spy Smasher: "The Misfortune Teller"

Date:

• Halloween 1942

Featured Characters:

• Spy Smasher

Supporting Characters:

• Eve Corby
• Admiral Corby

Antagonists:

• The Atom (First appearance)
  • his "Goblins"

Other Characters:

• Corby's Gardener
• Old Meg

Locations:

• Corby's Mansion, near the ocean
  

Appearing in Lance O'Casey: "The Isle of Lonely Gods"

Date:

• Halloween 1942

Featured Characters:

• Lance O'Casey

Supporting Characters:

• Mike Bellew

Antagonists:

• Hirochi the Great, former stage magician
  • his Japanese Military crew

Other Characters:

• castaway yacht crewman (Dies)
• Dola Lee
• Mr. Lee

Locations:

• Para Puni, the Isle of the Lonely Gods

Vehicles:

• O'Casey's Schooner, the Starfish
• Yacht "Dola Lee", wreckage
  

Appearing in Ibis the Invincible: "The Black Witch!"

Date:

• Halloween 1942

Featured Characters:

• Prince Ibis

Supporting Characters:

• Princess Taia

Antagonists:

• The Black Witch (First appearance)
• four robbers

Other Characters:

• Van De Peyster family

Locations:

• Van De Peyster Mansion
• an abandoned "haunted" mansion

Items:

• Ibistick

Vehicles:

• Black Witch's Broomstick
  

Appearing in Colonel Porterhouse: "Porterhouse the Invincible and the Phantom of Porterhouse Manor"

Featured Characters:

• Colonel Porterhouse

Supporting Characters:

• Sis
• Brother
• Mrs. Porterhouse
• Chadwick (Flashback only)

Antagonists:

• Phantom Hag of the Heath (actually two people) (Flashback only)
  • old man
  • his ward

Other Characters:

• Sir Childron Porterhouse (in painted portrait) (Flashback only)
• little boy next door

Locations:

• England
  • Duffenshire
    • Porterhouse Towers

Items:

• Porterwand (Flashback only)

Notes

• In Captain Marvel: "The Haunted Halloween Hotel", Captain Marvel and Billy Batson have a conversation and a disagreement. This happened rarely.
• According to Colonel Porterhouse, the Porterwand was given to him by the Khedive of Egypt, in recognition of his scholarly contributions to Egyptology. It was discovered in a tomb from the Fourth Dynasty, and is a potent talisman against evil.
• Also featured in this issue of Whiz Comics was:
  • "Death Wears a False Face" (text story) by Robert Arthur

Trivia

• Most stories in this issue are set on a Halloween Night, and all of them involve sinister skulking hooded figures.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Whiz Comics series
• Images from Whiz Comics Vol 1 36

Links and References

This page is missing characters! This page is missing one or more character, location or item appearances. If you find any characters that appear in this issue, episode, movie, game or book but are not included on the page, please add them to the Appearances list of the template.