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"Captain Marvel: "The Menace of the Skull"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

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Ibis the Invincible

Whiz Comics #8 is an issue of the series Whiz Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1940.

Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "The Menace of the Skull"


Appearing in Captain Marvel: "The Menace of the Skull"

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Synopsis for Golden Arrow: "Death Hits the Bulls-Eye"


Appearing in Golden Arrow: "Death Hits the Bulls-Eye"

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Other Characters:

  • Sheriff
  • Deputy
  • Timothy Marx, locksmith (Mentioned only)
  • Scadley Butterfuddle, poster paster
  • archery contestants
  • contest crowd / lynch mob

Locations:

  • American Old West (See Notes.)
    • Gila Gap
    • State Jail (destination)
    • Parsons' Mountain Cabin
    • Fairgrounds

Vehicles:

  • Horse-drawn jail wagon (See Notes)

Synopsis for Lance O'Casey: "The Islanders' Gorilla-God"


Appearing in Lance O'Casey: "The Islanders' Gorilla-God"

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  • Pelenona Island Natives
    • Alii, chief
  • Raider Brund (Single appearance; dies)
  • Pelenona, Volcano Goddess (Mentioned only)
  • The Eepa, Monster-god, (a gorilla)

Other Characters

  • Marna Dale (First appearance)

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Vehicles:

  • Hova Maru, tramp freighter (Mentioned only)
  • Brian Boru II, schooner (scuttled again)
  • Rose Pearl (wrecked years earlier)

Synopsis for Spy Smasher: "Menace of the Magnetic Mine"


Appearing in Spy Smasher: "Menace of the Magnetic Mine"

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  • The Mask
    • one henchman
    • Selby, guide / spy
    • Doc Greazbl, scientist (Mentioned only)
    • doorman
    • "Bean Ball", assassin

Other Characters:

  • Capt. Wall, experimenter
  • two Motorcycle Cops
  • Toy Factory Watchman

Locations:

  • Washington, D.C. Area
    • U.S. Army Experimental Factory
    • Mask's Bootleg Mine Factory (Destroyed)

Items:

  • Rolling Magnetic Land Mine

Vehicles:

  • U.S. Army Truck
  • remote-controlled jalopy (Destroyed)
  • Armstrong's Roadster (Destroyed)
  • Corby's Sedan
  • Spy Smasher's Gyrosub

Synopsis for Dan Dare: "Counterfeiter's Conspiracy"


Appearing in Dan Dare: "Counterfeiter's Conspiracy"

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Supporting Characters:

  • Carol Clews

Antagonists:

  • Mr. Hagstrom, newspaper publisher
    • his staff: reporters, printers, drivers, etc.
    • his thugs: Joe, others

Other Characters:

  • George S. Eaton, Bank President
  • Police Chief
    • his cops

Locations:

  • Westville
    • Westville National Bank
    • Westville Airport
    • Westville Police Station
    • Apartment Building on Grove Street (Destroyed)
    • Westville Guardian, newspaper office & printing plant
  • Small Town
    • Candy Store

Vehicles:

  • Dare's Private Plane (300 mph)
  • Guardian Delivery Truck

Synopsis for Dr. Voodoo: "Okoro's Revenge Plot"


Appearing in Dr. Voodoo: "Okoro's Revenge Plot"

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  • Gustave Schmidt
  • Maxinya
  • Jappa, jaguar

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  • Okoru

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Synopsis for Ibis the Invincible: "The Treachery of Carl Brand"

On a movie set in Hollywood, inside the reconstructed Tomb of Amnos the Black Pharoah, Tommy the adopted orphan has just gotten abducted through a secret panel; Carl Brand acts mystified; Ibis muses that IF the Curse of Amnos has done this THEN he won't be able to fix it. Ibis turns the tomb's walls to glass, and spots a car zooming away, presumably with Tommy in it, then restores the walls to normal. Brand cuts the lights, swipes the Ibistick, and flees. Ibis & Taia return to the Plaza Hotel, where they receive a telegram from Tommy, directing them to the Shadow Lake Lodge, a sumptuous private cabin high in the California mountains. Ibis gets jumped and handcuffed; Carl Brand gloats and exposits; Tommy is threatened with a giant gila monster unless Ibis signs over the Ibistick to Carl Brand, on a legal-looking document. No deal. The poisonous lizard is released; handcuffed Ibis jumps onto the beast; Brand wildly miscalculates Ibis' chances of defeating the monster and tries to use the Ibistick to turn Ibis into a rabbit. This backfires on him nonfatally. Ibis retrieves the stick, unhandcuffs himself, and turns the giant gila into a tiny mouse, then frees Tommy, then restores Brand into his old self. They adjourn to a police station, where it turns out that well-known local movie producer Carl Brand has way more influence than oddly-dressed foreigner Prince Ibis, and the cops lock up Ibis and Tommy, and try to confiscate the Ibistick. Ibis makes complete fools of these cops and leaves, but outside the police station, they find the car missing; Ibis magics up an even-zoomier new car; they race back to the hotel to find that Taia has already left, with Carl Brand.

Appearing in Ibis the Invincible: "The Treachery of Carl Brand"

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Antagonists:

  • Carl Brand
  • bent cops

Other Characters:

  • Tommy

Locations:

  • Honor Brand Pictures studio, Hollywood, California
  • Shadow Lake Lodge, in the California mountains

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Vehicles:

  • Ibis' two conjured-up cars

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.
  • Captain Marvel: "The Menace of the Skull" is reprinted in 'The Shazam! Archives Vol. 1'.
  • Golden Arrow: At some point early in the history of this character, his adventures shift from the mid-20th century to the late-19th century. Up until Whiz Comics #5, in-story details have indicated the series to be set in the 20th-century. In issues 6, and 7, the same cast of characters continues, so it could and should still be set in 1940. But there are no cars or highways, and no telephones or phone poles, in the dialogue or art. And everybody has a horse. So up to a point it's ambiguous, but in 8, we see a horse-drawn jail wagon. So after that, it's not the 1940s any more.
  • Ibis the Invincible: Taia is kidnapped for the third time.
  • Lance O'Casey gets head-konked unconscious, with a rifle stock.
  • Spy Smasher
    • The Gyrosub has a silent engine, and is equipped with an x-ray camera that can penetrate painted-over window glass, and is armed with machine guns.
    • Spy Smasher is momentarily stunned by the explosion which blows up his roadster.
    • At story's end, U.S. industry has the means to produce more rolling magnetic land mines, and the Mask is still at large.
  • Also featured in this issue of Whiz Comics were:
    • "Whiz Comics' Trading Post" (full page text, swap meet bulletin board)
    • "Two-Fisted Action!!" (1/3 page ad for the current issue of Master Comics)
    • "Hey, Pals!" (full page ad for the current issue of Special Edition Comics) (same ad as last issue)
    • Lance O'Casey's Sea Dogs: "Famous Pirates: Sir Henry Morgan" (1 page, no credits)
    • "There's High Adventure Ahead!" (another 1/3 page ad for the current issue of Master Comics)
    • "Jungle Luck" (text story)
    • "Super Size! Super Thrills! Super Value!" (a third 1/3 page ad for the current issue of Master Comics)
    • Ibis: "Whiz Magic" (prestidigitation tutorial)



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