This is a job for Captain Marvel! 
Whiz Comics #3A is an issue of the series Whiz Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1940.
Synopsis for "Sivana Strikes Again!"
The mad scientist Sivana raises a supremely powerful army, with thousands of super soldiers and hundreds of streamlined tanks and artillery that can shoot 75 miles and 120 mph combat cars and the mightiest air fleet in history, and declares war on the United States, and attacks Washington DC. Captain Marvel smashes a whole lot of tanks, then routs the invading infantry, then changes to Billy and sneaks into the enemy's camp, and observes the enemy general receive orders to report to Sivana. Captain Marvel wing-surfs to Sivana's hidden fortress atop the general's airplane. He sneaks into the castle and beats up some guards, but is overcome by deadly gas, and wrapped in heavy chains. Sivana has an atom smasher about as big as a barn, set to go off in five minutes, with which to blow up C.M., but Sivana's routed (and apparently ill-disciplined) troops show up at the fortress, just then, to confront Sivana and blame him for their defeat. Captain Marvel bursts his chains and leaps out of a window, but Sivana and a large number of the troops are still inside the fortress when it gets blown up. Billy Batson announces Sivana's death on the radio, prematurely, as it turns out.
Appearing in "Sivana Strikes Again!"
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- Doctor Sivana, (his 2nd scheme)
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Synopsis for "The Rustlers of Gila Creek"
Appearing in "The Rustlers of Gila Creek"
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- 19th Century
- Gila Creek
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Synopsis for "The Search for Wilson Drake"
Appearing in "The Search for Wilson Drake"
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- Wilson Drake (Single appearance)
- Bruce Lane
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Synopsis for "The Kidnapping of Taia"
Continued from last issue: In the still-unnamed city in Europe, Ibis the Invincible pursues the thief, who uses the stolen Ibisstick to create a stone wall and other barriers in his path, and who gets away. Meanwhile back in the museum, Taia is suffocating in her airtight glass display case. The thief has hidden in a building in the poor part of town, possibly his home, and is conjuring gold coins. Ibis finds him and almost tackles him; the thief counters by commanding the stick to turn Ibis into gold, which fatally backfires on him, because Ibis can't be harmed by the stick's power. Leaving the thief's neighbors to scoop up the gold, Ibis races back to the museum and dissolves the glass in time to save Taia.
Ibis recreates the ancient city of Thebes, deep in the Sahara. It's a bad neighborhood; a local outlaw Arab chief named Hamed makes the fatal mistake of kidnapping Taia, and trying to trade her for the Ibisstick. Ibis soon finds Hamed's fortified camp, turns his cut-throat bodyguards into geese, turns Hamed into a pig.
Appearing in "The Kidnapping of Taia"
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- Hamed (Single appearance)
- Thief (Final appearance)
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- Earth-S
- a European city
- New Thebes, deep in the Sahara Desert
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Synopsis for "Death Dawson"
Appearing in "Death Dawson"
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- Death Dawson (Single appearance; dies)
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Synopsis for "Five Hundred Thousand Dollars or Else"
Appearing in "Five Hundred Thousand Dollars or Else"
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- Carol Clews
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- Dynamite Davis (Single appearance)
- Taki (Single appearance)
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- Barbara (Single appearance)
- J. Morgan Bucksworth (Single appearance)
- Bucksworth's wife (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for "Spy Smasher Unmasks"
Appearing in "Spy Smasher Unmasks"
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- Admiral Corby
- Zambo
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Notes
- This series was published by Fawcett Publications. All characters and likeness(es) thereof associated with the Captain Marvel family of titles became the legal property of National Periodical Publications (DC Comics) in 1991.
- There were two issue number threes published for this title. Whiz Comics #3A was published with a cover date of March, and Whiz Comics #3B was published with a cover date of April.
- "Sivana Strikes Again" is reprinted in Shazam Archives, Volume 1.
Trivia
- This issue features a two-page text story entitled "Diamond of Death".
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Marvel Family Recommended Reading
- Whiz Comics (Volume 1)
- Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1)
- Captain Marvel, Jr. (Volume 1)
- Mary Marvel (Volume 1)
- Master Comics (Volume 1)
- Wow Comics (Volume 1)
- The Marvel Family (Volume 1)
- Hoppy the Marvel Bunny (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam!: The New Beginning (Volume 1)
- The Power of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder (Volume 1)
- Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil (Volume 1)
- The Trials of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 2)
- Shazam! (Volume 3)
- Shazam! (Volume 4)
- The New Champion of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 5)
Links and References
- Captain Marvel article at Wikipedia
- Captain Marvel article at Toonopedia
- Captain Marvel biography page at DCU Guide
- Dan Dare article at Wikipedia
- Golden Arrow article at Wikipedia
- Golden Arrow article at Toonopedia
- Ibis the Invincible article at Wikipedia
- Ibis the Invincible article at Toonopedia
- Ibis the Invincible biography page at DCU Guide
- Lance O'Casey article at Wikipedia
- Marvel Family article at Toonopedia
- Scoop Smith biography page at DCU Guide
- Shazam article at Wikipedia
- Shazam biography page at DCU Guide
- Spy Smasher article at Wikipedia
- Spy Smasher article at Toonopedia
- Spy Smasher biography page at DCU Guide
- Whiz Comics article at Wikipedia
- Whiz Comics #3 (3a) entire issue