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[[Image:Whiz Comics 5.JPG|right|thumb|350px|Whiz Comics #5]]
 
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| Title = Whiz Comics
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| Image = Whiz Comics 5.JPG
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| Volume = 1
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| Issue = 5
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| Month = 6
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| Year = 1940
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| Publisher = Fawcett
   
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| Executive Editor = Wilford H. Fawcett
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''' The Slaves of Dr. Scar '''
  
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| CoverArtist1 = C.C. Beck
   
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| Editor1_1 = Bill Parker
   
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| Writer1_1 = Bill Parker
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==Summary==
  
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| Writer2_1 = Bill Parker
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'''Volume:''' 1<br>
 
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| Writer3_1 = Bill Parker
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'''Issue:''' 5 <br>
 
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| Writer7_1 = Bill Parker
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'''Month:''' [[:Category:1940, June|June]]<br>
 
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| Writer9_1 = Bill Parker
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'''Year:''' [[:Category:1940|1940]]<br>
 
   
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| Penciler1_1 = C.C. Beck
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==Credits==
  
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| Penciler2_1 = Pete Costanza
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'''Editor in Chief:''' [[Wilford H. Fawcett]]<br>
 
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| Penciler3_1 = Bob Kingett
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'''Head Writer:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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| Penciler7_1 = Greg Duncan
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'''Cover Artists:''' [[C.C. Beck]]<br>
 
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'''Pencilers:''' [[C.C. Beck]]<br>
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| Penciler9_1 = C.C. Beck
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'''Inkers:''' [[C.C. Beck]]<br>
 
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'''Colourists:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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'''Editors:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
   
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| Inker1_1 = C.C. Beck
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==Synopsis==
  
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| Inker2_1 = Pete Costanza
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'''Cast of Characters:'''
 
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| Inker3_1 = Bob Kingett
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* [[William Batson (New Earth)|Billy Batson]] / [[William Batson (Earth-S)|Captain Marvel]]
 
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| Inker7_1 = Greg Duncan
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* Aloysius Lake
  
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| Inker9_1 = Pete Costanza
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* Doctor Scar
  
   
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| Letterer1_1 = Bill Parker
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'''Locations:'''
  
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| Letterer2_1 = Bill Parker
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*[[Fawcett City]]
  
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| Letterer3_1 = Bill Parker
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| Letterer7_1 = Bill Parker
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| Letterer9_1 = Bill Parker
   
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| Quotation = Your boss is lonely - I think you'd better become toads too.
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'''Items:'''
  
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| Speaker = {{a|[[Amentep (Earth-S)|Ibis the Invincible]]}}
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* None
  
   
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| StoryTitle1 = Captain Marvel: "The Slaves of Dr. Lake"
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'''First Appearances:''' Aloysius Lake; Doctor Scar<br>
 
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| StoryTitle2 = Golden Arrow: "Enter: Carol Braddock"
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'''Final Appearances:''' Aloysius Lake<br>
 
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| StoryTitle3 = Lance O'Casey: "The Bucket O' Blood"
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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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| 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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'''Synopsis:''' Synopsis not yet written <br>
 
   
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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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==Golden Arrow==
  
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| Synopsis2 =
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''' Enter: Carol Braddock '''
  
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| Synopsis3 =
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| Synopsis7 =
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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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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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===Credits===
  
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'''Head Writer:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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'''Pencilers:''' [[Pete Costanza]]<br>
 
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'''Inkers:''' [[Pete Costanza]]<br>
 
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'''Colourists:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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'''Editors:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
   
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| Appearing1 =
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===Synopsis===
  
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'''Cast of Characters:'''
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'''Featured Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[William Batson (Earth-S)|Billy Batson]]}} / {{a|[[William Batson (Earth-S)|Captain Marvel]]}}
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* [[Roger Parsons (Earth-S)|Golden Arrow]]
  
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'''Antagonists:'''
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* [[White Wind (Earth-S)|White Wind]]
  
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* Doctor Aloysius Lake {{Only}}
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* Bronk Braddock
  
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* Mister Scar {{Only}}
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* Brute Braddock
  
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* Mister Chung {{Only}}
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* Carol Braddock
  
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'''Other Characters:'''
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* unnamed FBI Chief
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* Joe {{Only}}
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* Mr. Levy (jewelry store owner)
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'''Locations:'''
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* {{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
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'''Items:'''
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* [[Earth-S#Science|Lake's Hypnotizing Machines]]
   
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| Appearing2 =
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'''First Appearances:''' Carol Braddock (Bronk and Brute's niece)<br>
 
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'''Featured Characters:'''
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'''Final Appearances:''' No final appearances <br>
 
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* {{a|[[Roger Parsons (Earth-S)|Golden Arrow]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[White Wind (Earth-S)|White Wind]]}}
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'''Antagonists:'''
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* {{a|[[Bronk Braddock (Earth-S)|Bronk Braddock]]}}
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* {{a|[[Brute Braddock (Earth-S)|Brute Braddock]]}}
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'''Other Characters:'''
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* Carol Braddock <small>(Bronk and Brute's niece)</small> {{1st}}
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'''Locations:'''
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* {{a|[[19th Century]]}}
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'''Items:'''
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* <br/>
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'''Vehicles:'''
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* <br/>
   
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| Appearing3 =
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'''Synopsis:''' Synopsis not yet written <br>
  
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'''Featured Characters:'''
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== Lance O'Casey ==
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* {{a|[[Lance O'Casey (Earth-S)|Lance O'Casey]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
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''' The Bucket O'Blood '''
  
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* {{a|[[Monk Hogan (Earth-S)|Mister Hogan]]}}
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* {{a|[[Daniel Doom (Earth-S)|Daniel Doom]]}}
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===Credits===
  
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'''Antagonists:'''
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'''Head Writer:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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* <br/>
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'''Pencilers:''' [[Bob Kingett]]<br>
 
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'''Other Characters:'''
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'''Inkers:''' [[Bob Kingett]]<br>
 
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* <br/>
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'''Colourists:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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'''Locations:'''
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'''Editors:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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* <br/>
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'''Items:'''
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===Synopsis===
  
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* <br/>
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'''Cast of Characters:'''
 
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'''Vehicles:'''
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* [[Lance O'Casey (Earth-S)|Lance O'Casey]]
  
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* [[Brian Boru]] {{Destroyed}}
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* [[Daniel Doom (Earth-S)|Daniel Doom]]
  
   
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| Writer6_1 = Bill Parker
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| Penciler6_1 = C.C. Beck
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| Inker6_1 = Pete Costanza
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| Letterer6_1 = Bill Parker
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| StoryTitle6 = Spy Smasher: "Schlitzoff's Spy Plot"
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| Synopsis6 =
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| Appearing6 =
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'''Featured Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[Alan Armstrong (Earth-S)|Spy Smasher]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
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* <br/>
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'''Antagonists:'''
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* {{a|[[Mask (Earth-S)|The Mask]]}}
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* {{a|[[Nazi Party|Gerald Schlitzoff]]}} {{Only}}
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'''Other Characters:'''
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* Admiral Corby
 
'''Locations:'''
  
'''Locations:'''
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* {{a|[[Earth-S]]}}
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* Unknown
  
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'''Items:'''
  
'''Items:'''
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* Unknown
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* <br/>
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'''Vehicles:'''
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* <br/>
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'''First Appearances:''' No first appearances <br>
 
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'''Final Appearances:''' No final appearances <br>
 
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'''Synopsis:''' Synopsis not yet written <br>
  
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== Spy Smasher ==
  
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''' Schlitzoff's Spy Plot '''
  
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===Credits===
  
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'''Head Writer:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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'''Pencilers:''' [[C.C. Beck]]<br>
 
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'''Inkers:''' [[Pete Costanza]]<br>
 
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'''Colourists:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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'''Editors:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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===Synopsis===
  
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'''Cast of Characters:'''
  
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* [[Spy Smasher]]
  
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* [[Mask (Earth-S)|The Mask]]
  
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* Gerald Schlitzoff
  
   
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| Appearing7 =
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'''Featured Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[Daniel Dare (Earth-S)|Dan Dare]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
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* Carol Clews
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'''Antagonists:'''
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* Miss Montros
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* Rollo
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'''Other Characters:'''
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* Mr. Haskel
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* Marie Mynard {{Only Dies}}
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* Luigi
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* Jack Storms {{Only Dies}}
 
'''Locations:'''
  
'''Locations:'''
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* <br/>
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* [[Earth-S]]
  
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'''Items:'''
  
'''Items:'''
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* None
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* <br/>
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'''Vehicles:'''
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* <br/>
   
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| Writer8_1 = Bill Parker
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'''First Appearances:''' Gerald Schlitzoff (a German spy)<br>
 
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| Penciler8_1 = Greg Duncan
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'''Final Appearances:''' Gerald Schlitzoff<br>
 
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| Inker8_1 = Greg Duncan
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| Letterer8_1 = Bill Parker
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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!
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'''Synopsis:''' Synopsis not yet written <br>
  
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| Appearing8 =
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'''Featured Characters:'''
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== Dan Dare ==
  
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* {{a|[[Scoop Smith (Earth-S)|Scoop Smith]]}}
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''' The Great Rollo Mystery '''
  
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[Blimp Black (Earth-S)|Blimp Black]]}}
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===Credits===
  
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* Bruce Lane, Editor
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'''Head Writer:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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'''Antagonists:'''
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'''Pencilers:''' [[Greg Duncan]]<br>
 
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* King Cortes {{Only}}
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'''Inkers:''' [[Greg Duncan]]<br>
 
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** his alien legions {{dies}}
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'''Colourists:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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* Subterrine General {{Only}}
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'''Editors:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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** Invisible Revolutionary Army {{dies}}
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'''Other Characters:'''
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===Synopsis===
  
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* Mexican Troops
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'''Cast of Characters:'''
 
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'''Locations:'''
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* [[Daniel Dare (Earth-S)|Dan Dare]]
  
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* {{a|[[Fawcett City|New York City]]}}
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* {{a|[[Mexico]]}}
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'''First Appearances:''' No first appearances <br>
 
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** Valley of Pyramid Temples
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'''Final Appearances:''' No final appearances <br>
 
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** Underground Kingdom of Scorpia
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** Underground Kingdom of Subterrinia
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'''Synopsis:''' Synopsis not yet written <br>
  
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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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'''Animals:'''
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== Scoop Smith ==
  
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* Giant Scorpion
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''' The Kingdom of Scorpia '''
  
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'''Vehicles:'''
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* Smith's Airplane {{destroyed}}
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===Credits===
  
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'''Head Writer:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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'''Pencilers:''' [[Greg Duncan]]<br>
 
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'''Inkers:''' [[Greg Duncan]]<br>
 
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'''Colourists:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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'''Editors:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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===Synopsis===
  
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'''Cast of Characters:'''
 
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* [[Scoop Smith (Earth-S)|Scoop Smith]]
  
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* [[Blimp Black (Earth-S)|Blimp Black]]
  
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* King Cortes
  
   
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| Appearing9 =
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'''Featured Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[Amentep (Earth-S)|Ibis the Invincible]]}}
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'''Supporting Characters:'''
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* {{a|[[Taia (Earth-S)|Taia]]}}
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'''Antagonists:'''
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* Murder Malone {{Final}}
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'''Other Characters:'''
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* <br/>
 
'''Locations:'''
  
'''Locations:'''
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* {{a|[[Earth-S]]}}
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* Unknown
  
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'''Items:'''
  
'''Items:'''
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* the {{a|[[Ibistick]]}} of Prince Amentep
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* Unknown
  
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'''Vehicles:'''
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* <br/>
   
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'''First Appearances:''' King Cortes<br>
 
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'''Final Appearances:''' King Cortes<br>
 
   
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| Notes = {{Fawcett}}
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'''Synopsis:''' Synopsis not yet written <br>
  
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* "The Slaves of Dr. Scar" is reprinted in ''{{co|The Shazam! Archives Vol. 1 (Collected)}}''.
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** Billy Batson gets knocked unconscious with a pistol butt, the first concussion of his long career.
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== Ibis the Invincible ==
  
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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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''' Showdown With Murder Malone '''
  
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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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===Credits===
  
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** Lance O'Casey: "Sea Dogs"
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'''Head Writer:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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** "The Convict's Ghost" {{green|text}}
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'''Pencilers:''' [[C.C. Beck]]<br>
 
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| Trivia =
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'''Inkers:''' [[Pete Costanza]]<br>
 
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'''Colourists:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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'''Editors:''' [[Bill Parker]]<br>
 
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===Synopsis===
  
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'''Cast of Characters:'''
 
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* [[Amentep (New Earth)|Ibis the Invincible]]
  
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* [[Taia (Earth-S)|Taia]]
  
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* Murder Malone
  
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'''First Appearances:''' No first appearances <br>
 
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'''Final Appearances:''' No final appearances <br>
 
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'''Synopsis:''' Synopsis not yet written <br>
  
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==Notes==
  
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* ''The Slaves of Dr. Scar '' is reprinted in [[Shazam Archives, Volume 1]].
  
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==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}}
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| Links =
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==Recommended Readings==
  
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* [[Comics:Captain Marvel Adventures Vol 1|Captain Marvel Adventures]]
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* [[Wikipedia:Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel at Wikipedia]]
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* [[Comics:Captain Marvel, Jr. Vol 1|Captain Marvel, Jr.]]
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* [https://www.toonopedia.com/capmarv1.htm Captain Marvel at Toonopedia]
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* [https://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=captainmarvel Captain Marvel at DCU Guide]
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* [[Comics:Hoppy the Marvel Bunny Vol 1|Hoppy the Marvel Bunny]]
  
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* [[Wikipedia:Dan Dare (Fawcett Comics)|Dan Dare at Wikipedia]]
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* [[Comics:Ibis Vol 1|Ibis the Invincible]]
  
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* [[Wikipedia:Golden Arrow (comics)|Golden Arrow at Wikipedia]]
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* [[Comics:Marvel Family Vol 1|Marvel Family]]
  
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* [https://www.toonopedia.com/gldarrow.htm Golden Arrow at Toonopedia]
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* [[Comics:Shazam Vol 1|Shazam!]]
  
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* [[Wikipedia:Ibis the Invincible|Ibis the Invincible at Wikipedia]]
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* [[Comics:Power of Shazam Vol 1|Power of Shazam]]
  
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* [https://www.toonopedia.com/ibis.htm Ibis the Invincible at Toonopedia]
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* [[Comics:Shazam: The New Beginning Vol 1|Shazam: The New Beginning]]
  
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* [https://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=ibis Ibis the Invincible at DCU Guide]
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* [[Comics:Spy Smasher Vol 1|Spy Smasher]]
  
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* [[Wikipedia:Lance O'Casey|Lance O'Casey at Wikipedia]]
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* [[Comics:Superman and Shazam: First Thunder Vol 1|Superman/Shazam - First Thunder]]
  
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* [https://www.toonopedia.com/marvlfam.htm Marvel Family at Toonopedia]
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* [[Comics:Trials of Shazam Vol 1|Trials of Shazam]]
  
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* [https://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=scoopsmith Scoop Smith at DCU Guide]
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* [[Comics:Whiz Comics Vol 1|Whiz Comics]]
  
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* [[Wikipedia:Shazam|Shazam at Wikipedia]]
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* [[Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe IV|Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #4]] ''([[Captain Marvel (disambiguation)|Captain Marvel]] biography page)''
  
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* [https://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=shazam Shazam at DCU Guide]
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* [[Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe XX|Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #20]] ''([[Jebediah of Canaan (New Earth)|Shazam]] biography page)''
  
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* [[Wikipedia:Spy Smasher|Spy Smasher at Wikipedia]]
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* [[Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe XXI|Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #21]] ''([[Thaddeus Sivana, Sr. (New Earth)|Sivana]] biography page)''
  
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* [https://www.toonopedia.com/spysmash.htm Spy Smasher at Toonopedia]
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* [https://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=spysmasher Spy Smasher at DCU Guide]
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==Related Articles==
  
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* [[Whiz Comics/Covers|Whiz Comics cover art gallery]]
  
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* [[C.C. Beck/Gallery|C.C. Beck cover art gallery]]
  
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* [[William Batson (Earth-S)/Appearances|Captain Marvel appearances list]]
  
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* [[Amentep (Earth-S)/Appearances|Ibis the Invincible appearances list]]
  
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* [[Thaddeus Sivana, Sr. (Earth-S)/Appearances|Doctor Sivana appearances list]]
  
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* [[Shazam (Earth-S)/Appearances|Shazam appearances list]]
  
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* [[Alan Armstrong (New Earth)/Appearances|Spy Smasher appearances list]]
  
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==External Links==
  
 
* [[Wikipedia:Whiz Comics|Whiz Comics article at Wikipedia]]
  
* [[Wikipedia:Whiz Comics|Whiz Comics article at Wikipedia]]
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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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* [[Wikipedia:Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel article at Wikipedia]]
  
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* [http://www.toonopedia.com/capmarv1.htm Captain Marvel article at Toonopedia]
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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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* [http://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=captainmarvel Captain Marvel biography page at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe]
 
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* [https://comicsodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/07/june-1940-whiz-comics-5.html Whiz Comics #5 spoilers]
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* [[Wikipedia:Dan Dare (Fawcett Comics)|Dan Dare article at Wikipedia]]
  
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* [[Wikipedia:Golden Arrow (comics)|Golden Arrow article at Wikipedia]]
  
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* [http://www.toonopedia.com/gldarrow.htm Golden Arrow article at Toonopedia]
  
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* [[Wikipedia:Ibis the Invincible|Ibis the Invincible article at Wikipedia]]
  
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* [http://www.toonopedia.com/ibis.htm Ibis the Invincible article at Toonopedia]
  
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* [http://www.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=ibis Ibis the Invincible biography page at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe]
 
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* [[Wikipedia:Lance O'Casey|Lance O'Casey article at Wikipedia]]
  
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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"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

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

Other Characters:

  • 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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Other Characters:

  • Admiral Corby

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Synopsis for Dan Dare: "The Great Rollo Mystery"


Appearing in Dan Dare: "The Great Rollo Mystery"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • 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"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • 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)

Animals:

  • Giant Scorpion

Vehicles:

  • 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".


See Also

Recommended Reading

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