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| Month = 6
  
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| Year = 1940
  
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| Publisher = Fawcett
   
 
| Executive Editor = Wilford H. Fawcett
  
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| Speaker = {{a|[[Amentep (Earth-S)|Ibis the Invincible]]}}
  
| Speaker = {{a|[[Amentep (Earth-S)|Ibis the Invincible]]}}
   
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| StoryTitle1 = The Slaves of Dr. Lake
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| StoryTitle1 = Captain Marvel: "The Slaves of Dr. Lake"
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| StoryTitle2 = Enter: Carol Braddock
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| StoryTitle2 = Golden Arrow: "Enter: Carol Braddock"
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| StoryTitle3 = The Bucket O' Blood
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| StoryTitle3 = Lance O'Casey: "The Bucket O' Blood"
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| StoryTitle4 = Sea Dogs
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| StoryTitle7 = Dan Dare: "The Great Rollo Mystery"
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| StoryTitle9 = Ibis the Invincible: "Showdown With Murder Malone"
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| StoryTitle5 = The Convict's Ghost
 
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| StoryTitle6 = Schlitzoff's Spy Plot
  
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| StoryTitle7 = The Great Rollo Mystery
  
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| StoryTitle8 = The Kingdom of Scorpia
  
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| StoryTitle9 = Showdown With Murder Malone
  
   
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| Synopsis1 = After five years a careful planning, a phantom genius of crime perfects a fiendishly clever scheme for wholesale robbery. A crime wave sweeps America, $250 billion worth of it, done by preadolescent boy thieves, hypnotized and coordinated by local "Fagins" in several cities, using hypnotizing machines. In Washington DC, Mr. Scar runs one such ring, supervising burglaries and purse-snatchings, accumulating a fortune in gold watches and pen knives. Billy Batson joins this gang and gets hypnotized and sent out on a gem robbery, but fortunately gets hit in the head with a pistol butt during a simultaneous robbery in the same store; the K.O. destroys the brain-paralyzing effects of the hypnotizer. Captain Marvel takes out the adult robbers, and their getaway driver, then returns to Scar's abandoned-factory-basement hideout and busts him, and hypnotizes him; Scar tells what he knows but it's not much. Billy Batson spends a week in New York looking for one gang of Fagins, and eventually infiltrates it, and takes down another boss in Chinatown, but this one doesn't know the big picture either. Captain Marvel flies from New York to Chicago to San Francisco, breaking up gang after gang of hypnotized boy robbers. Finally, in a luxurious mansion in Nob Hill, after transforming from Billy Batson to Captain Marvel during a spanking, C.M. beats up Doctor Aloysius Lake, sinister inventor of the modern Fagin robbery ring.
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| Synopsis1 = After five years a careful planning, a phantom genius of crime perfects a fiendishly clever scheme for wholesale robbery. A crime wave sweeps America, $250 billion worth of it, done by preadolescent boy thieves, hypnotized and coordinated by local "Fagins" in several cities, using hypnotizing machines. In Washington DC, Mr. Scar runs one such ring, supervising burglaries and purse-snatchings, accumulating a fortune in gold watches and pen knives. Billy Batson joins this gang and gets hypnotized and sent out on a gem robbery, but fortunately gets hit in the head with a pistol butt during a simultaneous robbery in the same store; the K.O. destroys the brain-paralyzing effects of the hypnotizer.
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Captain Marvel takes out the adult robbers, and their getaway driver, then returns to Scar's abandoned-factory-basement hideout and busts him, and hypnotizes him; Scar tells what he knows but it's not much. Billy Batson spends a week in New York looking for one gang of Fagins, and eventually infiltrates it, and takes down another boss in Chinatown, but this one doesn't know the big picture either. Captain Marvel flies from New York to Chicago to San Francisco, breaking up gang after gang of hypnotized boy robbers. Finally, in a luxurious mansion in Nob Hill, after transforming from Billy Batson to Captain Marvel during a spanking, C.M. beats up Doctor Aloysius Lake, sinister inventor of the modern Fagin robbery ring.
 
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| Synopsis9 = In our previous episode the beautiful Taia had been kidnapped into the Ibisship speedplane by Murder Malone, ruthless killer and outlaw munitions maker; the plane takes off with Malone at the controls. Arriving late, Ibis the Invincible commands the Ibistick to create a supersensitive airplane detector, and a 400-mph (3000 hp) monoplane, and pursues them, but by mistake chases a commercial airliner instead, then luckily finds a small clearing in a thick forest where the Ibisship has crashed. Ibis turns his own airplane into a parachute and lands at the spot, and gets jumped by a cougar which he turns into a fawn, then examines the Ibisship's wreckage and follows Malone's tracks into the woods.
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| Synopsis9 = In our previous episode the beautiful Taia had been kidnapped into the Ibisship speedplane by Murder Malone, ruthless killer and outlaw munitions maker; the plane takes off with Malone at the controls. Arriving late, Ibis the Invincible commands the Ibistick to create a supersensitive airplane detector, and a 400-mph (3000 hp) monoplane, and pursues them, but by mistake chases a commercial airliner instead, then luckily finds a small clearing in a thick forest where the Ibisship has crashed. Ibis turns his own airplane into a parachute and lands at the spot, and gets jumped by a cougar which he turns into a fawn, then examines the Ibisship's wreckage and follows Malone's tracks into the woods. He neutralizes an electrified barbed-wire fence then encounters a rifle-toting guard, whom he turns into a duplicate of Rodin's statue "The Thinker." He finds Malone's cabin, where Taia is being menaced by Malone with a bullwhip; Ibis plays some preliminary pranks on Malone, then confronts him, while turning a kitten into a wildcat and then into a straightjacket. Taia is freed but then two thugs jump Ibis from behind and wrest away the Ibistick and hand it to Malone. Malone tries to use the stick to turn Ibis into a toad, this backfires on him; then Ibis turns the two thugs into toads as well. He turns the wreckage of the Ibisship into a new autogiro, and he and Taia fly away. En route to New Thebes, over the ocean, Ibis accidentally drops the Ibistick out of the canopy and it falls towards the ocean. To be continued!
  
   
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Along the way, Ibis neutralizes an electrified barbed-wire fence then encounters a rifle-toting guard, whom he turns into a duplicate of Rodin's statue "The Thinker." He finds Malone's cabin, where Taia is being menaced by Malone with a bullwhip; Ibis plays some preliminary pranks on Malone, then confronts him, while turning a kitten into a wildcat and then into a straightjacket. Taia is freed but then two thugs jump Ibis from behind and wrest away the Ibistick and hand it to Malone. Malone tries to use the stick to turn Ibis into a toad, this backfires on him; then Ibis turns the two thugs into toads as well. He turns the wreckage of the Ibisship into a new autogiro, and he and Taia fly away. En route to New Thebes, over the ocean, Ibis accidentally drops the Ibistick out of the canopy and it falls towards the ocean.
   
 
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| Appearing1 =
 
'''Featured Characters:'''
  
'''Featured Characters:'''
 
* {{a|[[William Batson (Earth-S)|Billy Batson]]}} / {{a|[[William Batson (Earth-S)|Captain Marvel]]}}
 
* {{a|[[William Batson (Earth-S)|Billy Batson]]}} / {{a|[[William Batson (Earth-S)|Captain Marvel]]}}
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'''Antagonists:'''
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
  
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'''Villains:'''
  
 
* Doctor Aloysius Lake {{Only}}
  
* Doctor Aloysius Lake {{Only}}
 
* Mister Scar {{Only}}
  
* Mister Scar {{Only}}
 
* Mister Chung {{Only}}
  
* Mister Chung {{Only}}
 
'''Other Characters:'''
  
'''Other Characters:'''
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* unnamed FBI Chief
 
* Joe {{Only}}
  
* Joe {{Only}}
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* Mr. Levy (jewelry store owner)
 
'''Locations:'''
  
'''Locations:'''
 
* {{a|[[Earth-S]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Earth-S]]}}
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** {{a|[[Washington, D.C.]]}}
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** {{a|[[Fawcett City|New York City]]}}
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*** {{a|[[New York City Chinatown|Chinatown]]}}
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** {{a|[[Chicago]]}}
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** {{a|[[San Francisco]]}}
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*** Nob Hill
 
'''Items:'''
  
'''Items:'''
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* [[Earth-S#Science|Lake's Hypnotizing Machines]]
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* hypnotizing machines <br/>
  
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'''Vehicles:'''
  
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| Appearing2 =
 
'''Featured Characters:'''
  
'''Featured Characters:'''
 
* {{a|[[Roger Parsons (Earth-S)|Golden Arrow]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Roger Parsons (Earth-S)|Golden Arrow]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
  
'''Supporting Characters:'''
 
* {{a|[[White Wind (Earth-S)|White Wind]]}}
  
* {{a|[[White Wind (Earth-S)|White Wind]]}}
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'''Villains:'''
  
 
* {{a|[[Bronk Braddock (Earth-S)|Bronk Braddock]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Bronk Braddock (Earth-S)|Bronk Braddock]]}}
 
* {{a|[[Brute Braddock (Earth-S)|Brute Braddock]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Brute Braddock (Earth-S)|Brute Braddock]]}}
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'''Other Characters:'''
  
'''Other Characters:'''
 
* Carol Braddock <small>(Bronk and Brute's niece)</small> {{1st}}
  
* Carol Braddock <small>(Bronk and Brute's niece)</small> {{1st}}
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'''Locations:'''
  
'''Locations:'''
 
* {{a|[[19th Century]]}}
  
* {{a|[[19th Century]]}}
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'''Items:'''
  
'''Items:'''
 
* <br/>
  
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'''Featured Characters:'''
  
'''Featured Characters:'''
 
* {{a|[[Lance O'Casey (Earth-S)|Lance O'Casey]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Lance O'Casey (Earth-S)|Lance O'Casey]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
  
'''Supporting Characters:'''
 
* {{a|[[Monk Hogan (Earth-S)|Mister Hogan]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Monk Hogan (Earth-S)|Mister Hogan]]}}
 
* {{a|[[Daniel Doom (Earth-S)|Daniel Doom]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Daniel Doom (Earth-S)|Daniel Doom]]}}
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'''Villains:'''
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'''Antagonists:'''
 
* <br/>
  
* <br/>
 
'''Other Characters:'''
  
'''Other Characters:'''
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* [[Brian Boru]] {{Destroyed}}
  
* [[Brian Boru]] {{Destroyed}}
   
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| Penciler6_1 = C.C. Beck
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'''Featured Characters:'''
  
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| Inker6_1 = Pete Costanza
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| Letterer6_1 = Bill Parker
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
  
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| StoryTitle6 = Spy Smasher: "Schlitzoff's Spy Plot"
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'''Villains:'''
  
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'''Featured Characters:'''
  
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| Appearing6 =
 
| Appearing6 =
 
'''Featured Characters:'''
  
'''Featured Characters:'''
 
* {{a|[[Alan Armstrong (Earth-S)|Spy Smasher]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Alan Armstrong (Earth-S)|Spy Smasher]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
  
'''Supporting Characters:'''
 
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'''Antagonists:'''
 
* {{a|[[Mask (Earth-S)|The Mask]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Mask (Earth-S)|The Mask]]}}
 
* {{a|[[Nazi Party|Gerald Schlitzoff]]}} {{Only}}
  
* {{a|[[Nazi Party|Gerald Schlitzoff]]}} {{Only}}
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'''Other Characters:'''
  
'''Other Characters:'''
 
* Admiral Corby
  
* Admiral Corby
 
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'''Locations:'''
 
* {{a|[[Earth-S]]}}
  
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'''Featured Characters:'''
 
* {{a|[[Daniel Dare (Earth-S)|Dan Dare]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Daniel Dare (Earth-S)|Dan Dare]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
  
'''Supporting Characters:'''
 
* Carol Clews
  
* Carol Clews
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'''Villains:'''
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* Miss Montros
  
* Miss Montros
 
* Rollo
  
* Rollo
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| StoryTitle8 = Scoop Smith: "The Kingdom of Scorpia"
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| Synopsis8 = Editor Bruce Lane sends Scoop Smith and Blimp Black to Mexico to look for the Invisible Revolutionary Army. In a remote and well-defended valley they find an underground kingdom of alien enemies, and a second underground kingdom of ancient Mexican enemies. Hiding out from both hostile factions, Smith uses a radio transmitter, which he brought along, to contact the President of Mexico, and warn him of the two imminent attacks. The President personally takes the call, and is very grateful for the warning; he dispatches troops to search beneath Mexico City, to repel the invaders and rescue the informants. Scoop and Blimp are meantime being captured by first one enemy army then the other.
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In a vast system of tunnels under Mexico City, the Scorpian and Subterrinian armies clash with one another, creating enough distraction for Scoop and Blimp to escape and hook up with a detachment of Mexican troops. Using explosives, the regular Mexican Army wipes out both enemy armies. Scoop and Blimp get a headline-making story!
 
| Appearing8 =
 
| Appearing8 =
 
'''Featured Characters:'''
  
'''Featured Characters:'''
 
* {{a|[[Scoop Smith (Earth-S)|Scoop Smith]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Scoop Smith (Earth-S)|Scoop Smith]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
  
'''Supporting Characters:'''
 
* {{a|[[Blimp Black (Earth-S)|Blimp Black]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Blimp Black (Earth-S)|Blimp Black]]}}
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* Bruce Lane, Editor
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* King Cortes {{Only}}
  
* King Cortes {{Only}}
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** his alien legions {{dies}}
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* Subterrine General {{Only}}
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** Invisible Revolutionary Army {{dies}}
 
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'''Other Characters:'''
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* Mexican Troops
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* Bruce Lane
  
 
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'''Locations:'''
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* {{a|[[Fawcett City|New York City]]}}
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* {{a|[[Mexico]]}}
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** Valley of Pyramid Temples
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** Underground Kingdom of Scorpia
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** Underground Kingdom of Subterrinia
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** Tunnels Under Mexico City
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** Mount Xitu (has a crater full of poison gas)
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* Giant Scorpion
 
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* Smith's Airplane {{destroyed}}
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| Appearing9 =
 
| Appearing9 =
 
'''Featured Characters:'''
  
'''Featured Characters:'''
 
* {{a|[[Amentep (Earth-S)|Ibis the Invincible]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Amentep (Earth-S)|Ibis the Invincible]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
  
'''Supporting Characters:'''
 
* {{a|[[Taia (Earth-S)|Taia]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Taia (Earth-S)|Taia]]}}
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'''Antagonists:'''
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'''Villains:'''
  
 
* Murder Malone {{Final}}
  
* Murder Malone {{Final}}
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'''Other Characters:'''
  
'''Other Characters:'''
 
* <br/>
  
* <br/>
 
'''Locations:'''
  
'''Locations:'''
 
* {{a|[[Earth-S]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Earth-S]]}}
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* the {{a|[[Ibistick]]}} of Prince Amentep
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* "The Slaves of Dr. Scar" is reprinted in ''[[Shazam Archives Vol 1 1|Shazam Archives, Volume 1]]''.
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* "The Slaves of Dr. Scar" is reprinted in ''{{co|The Shazam! Archives Vol. 1 (Collected)}}''.
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* In this issue's Captain Marvel story, Billy Batson gets knocked unconscious with a pistol butt, the first concussion of his long career.
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** Billy Batson gets knocked unconscious with a pistol butt, the first concussion of his long career.
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* Confronting a tommy-gun-wielding robber, "Captain Marvel holds his hand over the barrel and the machine gun explodes in the gangster's face." It's hard to understand how the robber is not killed by this move.
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** Confronting a tommy-gun-wielding robber, "Captain Marvel holds his hand over the barrel and the machine gun explodes in the gangster's face." It's hard to understand how the robber is not killed by this move.
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* Ibis has now killed one submarine crew, turned two guys into statues, and turned four guys into animals.
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* Ibis the Invincible, body count: Ibis has now killed one submarine crew, turned two guys into statues, and turned four guys into animals.
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* Also appearing in this issue of <u>Whiz Comics</u> were:
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** Lance O'Casey: "Sea Dogs"
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** "The Convict's Ghost" {{green|text}}
 
| Trivia =
 
| Trivia =
 
* The tagline for this issue is "Captain Marvel Scores Again".
  
* The tagline for this issue is "Captain Marvel Scores Again".
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| Recommended = {{Marvel Family RR}}
  
| Recommended = {{Marvel Family RR}}
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| Links =
 
| Links =
 
* [[Wikipedia:Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel at Wikipedia]]
  
* [[Wikipedia:Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel at Wikipedia]]
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* [http://www.toonopedia.com/capmarv1.htm Captain Marvel at Toonopedia]
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* [https://www.toonopedia.com/capmarv1.htm Captain Marvel at Toonopedia]
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* [http://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=captainmarvel Captain Marvel at DCU Guide]
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* [https://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=captainmarvel Captain Marvel at DCU Guide]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Dan Dare (Fawcett Comics)|Dan Dare at Wikipedia]]
  
* [[Wikipedia:Dan Dare (Fawcett Comics)|Dan Dare at Wikipedia]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Golden Arrow (comics)|Golden Arrow at Wikipedia]]
  
* [[Wikipedia:Golden Arrow (comics)|Golden Arrow at Wikipedia]]
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* [http://www.toonopedia.com/gldarrow.htm Golden Arrow at Toonopedia]
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* [https://www.toonopedia.com/gldarrow.htm Golden Arrow at Toonopedia]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Ibis the Invincible|Ibis the Invincible at Wikipedia]]
  
* [[Wikipedia:Ibis the Invincible|Ibis the Invincible at Wikipedia]]
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* [http://www.toonopedia.com/ibis.htm Ibis the Invincible at Toonopedia]
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* [https://www.toonopedia.com/ibis.htm Ibis the Invincible at Toonopedia]
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* [http://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=ibis Ibis the Invincible at DCU Guide]
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* [https://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=ibis Ibis the Invincible at DCU Guide]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Lance O'Casey|Lance O'Casey at Wikipedia]]
  
* [[Wikipedia:Lance O'Casey|Lance O'Casey at Wikipedia]]
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* [http://www.toonopedia.com/marvlfam.htm Marvel Family at Toonopedia]
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* [https://www.toonopedia.com/marvlfam.htm Marvel Family at Toonopedia]
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* [http://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=scoopsmith Scoop Smith at DCU Guide]
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* [https://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=scoopsmith Scoop Smith at DCU Guide]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Shazam|Shazam at Wikipedia]]
  
* [[Wikipedia:Shazam|Shazam at Wikipedia]]
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* [http://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=shazam Shazam at DCU Guide]
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* [https://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=shazam Shazam at DCU Guide]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Spy Smasher|Spy Smasher at Wikipedia]]
  
* [[Wikipedia:Spy Smasher|Spy Smasher at Wikipedia]]
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* [http://www.toonopedia.com/spysmash.htm Spy Smasher at Toonopedia]
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* [https://www.toonopedia.com/spysmash.htm Spy Smasher at Toonopedia]
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* [http://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=spysmasher Spy Smasher at DCU Guide]
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* [https://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=spysmasher Spy Smasher at DCU Guide]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Whiz Comics|Whiz Comics article at Wikipedia]]
  
* [[Wikipedia:Whiz Comics|Whiz Comics article at Wikipedia]]
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* [http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=189 Whiz Comics series index at the Grand Comics Database] ''(creator credits)''
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* [https://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=189 Whiz Comics series index at the Grand Comics Database] ''(creator credits)''
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* [http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=15610 Whiz Comics #5 entire issue]
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* [https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=15610 Whiz Comics #5 entire issue]
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* [https://www.dcindexes.com/features/database.php?site=&pagetype=comic&id=33836 Whiz Comics #5 index entry]
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* [https://comicsodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/07/june-1940-whiz-comics-5.html Whiz Comics #5 spoilers]
 
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"Captain Marvel: "The Slaves of Dr. Lake"": After five years a careful planning, a phantom genius of crime perfects a fiendishly clever scheme for wholesale robbery. A crime wave sweeps America, $250 billion worth of it, done by preadolescent boy thieves, hypnotized and coordinated by local "Fag

Quote1 Your boss is lonely - I think you'd better become toads too. Quote2
— Ibis the Invincible

Whiz Comics #5 is an issue of the series Whiz Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1940.

Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "The Slaves of Dr. Lake"

After five years a careful planning, a phantom genius of crime perfects a fiendishly clever scheme for wholesale robbery. A crime wave sweeps America, $250 billion worth of it, done by preadolescent boy thieves, hypnotized and coordinated by local "Fagins" in several cities, using hypnotizing machines. In Washington DC, Mr. Scar runs one such ring, supervising burglaries and purse-snatchings, accumulating a fortune in gold watches and pen knives. Billy Batson joins this gang and gets hypnotized and sent out on a gem robbery, but fortunately gets hit in the head with a pistol butt during a simultaneous robbery in the same store; the K.O. destroys the brain-paralyzing effects of the hypnotizer.

Captain Marvel takes out the adult robbers, and their getaway driver, then returns to Scar's abandoned-factory-basement hideout and busts him, and hypnotizes him; Scar tells what he knows but it's not much. Billy Batson spends a week in New York looking for one gang of Fagins, and eventually infiltrates it, and takes down another boss in Chinatown, but this one doesn't know the big picture either. Captain Marvel flies from New York to Chicago to San Francisco, breaking up gang after gang of hypnotized boy robbers. Finally, in a luxurious mansion in Nob Hill, after transforming from Billy Batson to Captain Marvel during a spanking, C.M. beats up Doctor Aloysius Lake, sinister inventor of the modern Fagin robbery ring.

Appearing in Captain Marvel: "The Slaves of Dr. Lake"

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  • Doctor Aloysius Lake (Single appearance)
  • Mister Scar (Single appearance)
  • Mister Chung (Single appearance)

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  • unnamed FBI Chief
  • Joe (Single appearance)
  • Mr. Levy (jewelry store owner)

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Synopsis for Golden Arrow: "Enter: Carol Braddock"


Appearing in Golden Arrow: "Enter: Carol Braddock"

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  • Carol Braddock (Bronk and Brute's niece) (First appearance)

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Synopsis for Lance O'Casey: "The Bucket O' Blood"


Appearing in Lance O'Casey: "The Bucket O' Blood"

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Synopsis for Spy Smasher: "Schlitzoff's Spy Plot"


Appearing in Spy Smasher: "Schlitzoff's Spy Plot"

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  • Admiral Corby

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Synopsis for Dan Dare: "The Great Rollo Mystery"


Appearing in Dan Dare: "The Great Rollo Mystery"

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  • Carol Clews

Antagonists:

  • Miss Montros
  • Rollo

Other Characters:

  • Mr. Haskel
  • Marie Mynard (Single appearance; dies)
  • Luigi
  • Jack Storms (Single appearance; dies)

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Synopsis for Scoop Smith: "The Kingdom of Scorpia"

Editor Bruce Lane sends Scoop Smith and Blimp Black to Mexico to look for the Invisible Revolutionary Army. In a remote and well-defended valley they find an underground kingdom of alien enemies, and a second underground kingdom of ancient Mexican enemies. Hiding out from both hostile factions, Smith uses a radio transmitter, which he brought along, to contact the President of Mexico, and warn him of the two imminent attacks. The President personally takes the call, and is very grateful for the warning; he dispatches troops to search beneath Mexico City, to repel the invaders and rescue the informants. Scoop and Blimp are meantime being captured by first one enemy army then the other.

In a vast system of tunnels under Mexico City, the Scorpian and Subterrinian armies clash with one another, creating enough distraction for Scoop and Blimp to escape and hook up with a detachment of Mexican troops. Using explosives, the regular Mexican Army wipes out both enemy armies. Scoop and Blimp get a headline-making story!

Appearing in Scoop Smith: "The Kingdom of Scorpia"

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  • King Cortes (Single appearance)
    • his alien legions (Dies)
  • Subterrine General (Single appearance)
    • Invisible Revolutionary Army (Dies)

Other Characters:

  • Mexican Troops

Locations:

  • New York City
  • Mexico
    • Valley of Pyramid Temples
    • Underground Kingdom of Scorpia
    • Underground Kingdom of Subterrinia
    • Tunnels Under Mexico City
    • Mount Xitu (has a crater full of poison gas)

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  • Giant Scorpion

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  • Smith's Airplane (Destroyed)

Synopsis for Ibis the Invincible: "Showdown With Murder Malone"

In our previous episode the beautiful Taia had been kidnapped into the Ibisship speedplane by Murder Malone, ruthless killer and outlaw munitions maker; the plane takes off with Malone at the controls. Arriving late, Ibis the Invincible commands the Ibistick to create a supersensitive airplane detector, and a 400-mph (3000 hp) monoplane, and pursues them, but by mistake chases a commercial airliner instead, then luckily finds a small clearing in a thick forest where the Ibisship has crashed. Ibis turns his own airplane into a parachute and lands at the spot, and gets jumped by a cougar which he turns into a fawn, then examines the Ibisship's wreckage and follows Malone's tracks into the woods.

Along the way, Ibis neutralizes an electrified barbed-wire fence then encounters a rifle-toting guard, whom he turns into a duplicate of Rodin's statue "The Thinker." He finds Malone's cabin, where Taia is being menaced by Malone with a bullwhip; Ibis plays some preliminary pranks on Malone, then confronts him, while turning a kitten into a wildcat and then into a straightjacket. Taia is freed but then two thugs jump Ibis from behind and wrest away the Ibistick and hand it to Malone. Malone tries to use the stick to turn Ibis into a toad, this backfires on him; then Ibis turns the two thugs into toads as well. He turns the wreckage of the Ibisship into a new autogiro, and he and Taia fly away. En route to New Thebes, over the ocean, Ibis accidentally drops the Ibistick out of the canopy and it falls towards the ocean.

Appearing in Ibis the Invincible: "Showdown With Murder Malone"

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  • Murder Malone (Final appearance)

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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.
  • "The Slaves of Dr. Scar" is reprinted in 'The Shazam! Archives Vol. 1'.
    • Billy Batson gets knocked unconscious with a pistol butt, the first concussion of his long career.
    • Confronting a tommy-gun-wielding robber, "Captain Marvel holds his hand over the barrel and the machine gun explodes in the gangster's face." It's hard to understand how the robber is not killed by this move.
  • Ibis the Invincible, body count: Ibis has now killed one submarine crew, turned two guys into statues, and turned four guys into animals.
  • Also appearing in this issue of Whiz Comics were:
    • Lance O'Casey: "Sea Dogs"
    • "The Convict's Ghost" (text)

Trivia

  • The tagline for this issue is "Captain Marvel Scores Again".


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