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Issue: Shield-Wizard Comics #4

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Publication Date: January 1941

Issue #4
- #5 (1)
- #2
- #3
- ✔ #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- #8
- #9
- #10
- #11
- #12
- #13
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Issues: #4 of 13 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Archie Publications, Inc.

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.

On Sale Date: 06/20/1941

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (6 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Harry Shorten

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. 3.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing

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Content Items (12 total)

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Genres: superhero

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Pages: 1

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Writer(s): ? [as Joe Higgins (The Shield)]

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Letterer(s): ?; typeset

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Feature(s): Shield G-Man Club

First Line: Readers of the Shield-Wizard Comics...

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. Ad for the Shield G-Man Club, including a membership form.

The Tunnel of Death

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Fang (villain, introduction ?); Von Kurtner (villain, introduction); a foreman (villain, introduction, death); Paddy

First Line: Dusk lays a heavy pall over the murky waters of the Hudson.

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Pages: 15

Notes: Title taken from ad in JACKPOT COMICS #2.

Blood Flows Through the Panama Canal

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Dick Frazer (villain, introduction, death); John Frazer (introduction); Captain Crawford; Pancho; Celeste (donkey)

First Line: Thick darkness veils a slumbering city and the rodent of society...

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Pages: 14

Notes: Title taken from ad in JACKPOT COMICS #2.

Paradise for Crime

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Hines and his gang (villain, introduction); Slats Gordon; Mrs. Gordon; Jimmy

First Line: Our story opens in a Vermont vacation resort for underprivileged youths!

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Pages: 6

Notes: Title taken from ad in JACKPOT COMICS #2.

Frozen Death

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): S. D. (signed)

Inker(s): S. D. (signed)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): scientist

First Line: Joe Higgins stared at the things that had but an instant before been people...

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Pages: 2

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Feature(s): Pep Comics

First Line: Hello, gang. How's about us getting together in Pep Comics on sale at your newsstand right now!

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Pages: 1

Notes: House ad for Pep Comics.

Bobsled of Doom

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Torgo (villain, introduction, death ?); Barton

First Line: Blane Whitney, his ward, Roy and his fiancee, Jane Barlow, are vacationing at Sun Valley.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Signed on splash page in the snow just under the foot of Roy.

Title taken from ad in JACKPOT COMICS #2.

The Bars of Prison

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Beast-Killer [Warden Lewis] (villain, introduction); Hines

First Line: In the state reformatory, a cowering youngster sits in the darkness...

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Pages: 12

Notes: On the splash page the name Morton is written on the back of the paper. Coincidence? The art is identical to the other signed Wizard story.

Title taken from ad in JACKPOT COMICS #2.

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Feature(s): Top-Notch Comics

Character(s): Fran Frazier; St. Louis Kid

First Line: Biggest show on Earth

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Notes: House ad for Top-Notch Comics.

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First Line: Audel's new machinists handy book now ready!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Send $4.00 for Audels Machinists & Toolmakers Handy Book from Theo. Audel & Co., 49 West 23rd St., New York.
Inside back cover.

Make Your Own Records at Home

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)

Penciller(s): ?; ? (photo)

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Character(s): Bob; Judie Ellington (photo)

First Line: Think of it! I just made this record with the new Home Recorder!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Send $2.98 for a home recording playback unit including six two-sided, blank records from Home Recording Company, Studio SW, 9East 19th St., New York, N.Y.
On back cover.