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Issue: Whiz Comics #16 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1941
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Issues: #16 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: 03/21/1941
Volume: 3
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, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 2.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong] (inset); Golden Arrow [Roger Parsons] (inset); Lance O'Casey (inset); Dan Dare (inset); Doctor Voodoo [Dr. Hal Carey] (inset); Ibis (inset); Taia (inset)
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In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #2 published September 1999
as Whiz Comics #16 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The Archive edition states the inks are by Costanza.
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Confrontation with Spy Smasher

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Sterling Morris; the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: Sterling Morris calls Billy into his office and shows him newspaper headlines about Spy Smasher running wild and posing a real danger to U.S. defense sectors. Upon hearing that the former hero is at the federal penitentiary helping prisoners escape, Billy changes to Captain Marvel and travels to the prison to stop Spy Smasher. But Spy Smasher escapes, captures the good Captain, and subjects him to the Brainograph once belonging to the Mask!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #2 published September 1999
as Confrontation With Spy Smasher [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Part 2 of the Captain Marvel vs. Spy Smasher storyline, which continues in the Spy Smasher story in this issue.
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Carol Braddock -- Marked for Death

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Subject Matter
Genres: western
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Pages: 9
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The Land of the Leopard Men

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Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Trap for Eve Corby

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Eve Corby; Admiral Corby;
Synopsis: Wanting to save Spy Smasher from the terrible effects of the Mask's Brainograph, Eve drives to Alan Armstrong's Virginia estate, believing him to be hiding there. He is, but Spy Smasher believes Eve to be a threat to him, so he decides to burn the house down with her in it, and it's only through the timely actions of Captain Marvel that her life is spared.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #2 published September 1999
as The Trap for Eve Corby [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Part 3 of the Captain Marvel vs. Spy Smasher storyline, which continues in the Captain Marvel story in the next issue.

The splash panel is used, in part, as the cover to Spy Smasher Comics #1.

Panel 6 on page seven contains a swipe of the figure of Captain Marvel used on the cover to Captain Marvel Adventures #1.

In the last panel, the editor asks readers to write in and tell him who they think will win the gigantic battle between the two heroes.
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The Gas Gun Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): John Elton (Villain; Intro)
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Pages: 9
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Circus Hero

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Ahmed (Villain; Introduction; Death); Doctor Voodoo [Hal Carey]; Nikko; Houmids (Arab tribe)
First Line: Jungle drums beat out a rhythmic message of terror...
Synopsis: Hal and Nikko free a tribe from Arab ivory thieves.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: There is no explanation for how a tribe of Arabs came to be in Brazil, where the ivory came from, or why the climactic battle takes place in a desert.
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The Man Whose Words Came True

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Trug (Villain); Osiris (Intro)
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Story continues in next issue.

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