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Issue: Whiz Comics #11 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1940
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Issues: #11 of 155 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: A Fawcett Publication [Triangle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/25/1940
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Hurray For Captain Marvel!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #1 [First Printing] published November 1992
as Cover - Whiz Comics #11 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #1 [First Printing] published November 1992
as Backcover [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]cover
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mystery of Marvel College

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Stereling Morris; Dean Scroggle (Dean of Marvel College); Ben Strang (football team Captain); Costanza [Pete Costanza] (Marvel College football player); Slug Samson (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Billy is ordered to enroll at Marvel College and get the low-down on their football coach, Slug Samson, a former convict. As Captain Marvel, he must stop the coach from doing anything in his power to make the team lose the big game against State University.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #1 [First Printing] published November 1992
as Mystery of Marvel College [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Except for the masthead, Captain Marvel wears no cape in the story.

The last panel of the story states that Whiz Comics #12 would be on sale November 22nd.

Beck sometimes drew Pete Costanza into some of the Captain Marvel stories, such as this one, which Costanza then inked. Information verified in Alter Ego #126 (July 2014).
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Black Bill, the Cattle Thief

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Black Bill (Villain; Intro); Hatchet Jones (Villain; Intro)
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Pages: 9
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Terror on Thunder Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Baron Von Graff (Villain; Intro; Death)
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Pages: 8
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South American Sabotage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): The Mask (Villain)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #40 published April 2003
as South American Sabotage [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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The Pirate Sub of Nantucket

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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
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Pages: 9
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Death's Turnpike

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Maxinya; Okoro (Villain); Doctor Voodoo [Hal Carey]; Nikko; Molomolo; Jappa (jaguar)
First Line: Hal Carey, young American known to the savage Blancas as Doctor Voodoo, is faced with a baffling sickness...
Synopsis: Okoro trains vampire bats to feed on the Blancas.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: story continues in next issue.
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The Walking Sphinx

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Grom Deeters (Villain; Death)
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: story continues in next issue

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