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Issue: Whiz Comics #25 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1941
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Issues: #25 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: 11/28/1941
Volume: 5
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): France Herron
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. 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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Mighty Captain Marvel Stops the Turbine of Death!

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 #4 published April 2003
as Cover - Whiz Comics #25 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman] (introduction, origin); Sterling Morris; Whitey Murphy; Jacob Freeman (Freddy Freeman's uncle, introduction, death); Shazam; Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger] (villain); Adolph Hitler (villain)
First Line: He's here, folks! Smashing his way right out of Master Comics and into our own Whiz, Captain Nazi is cutting a path of sabotage and destruction across the country!
Synopsis: Captain Nazi cuts Station WHIZ off the air and Captain Marvel races for the radio sending station and saves Whitey in the process. He then must stop a powerful turbine from spinning out of control and costing the lives of innocent people. Then, in order to save the life of a young newsboy crippled by Captain Nazi, Billy passes along part of his powers to the boy.
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In Content Item: FlagShazam from the Forties to the Seventies #[nn] published September 1977
as The Origin of Captain Marvel, Jr. [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as The Origin of Captain Marvel, Jr. [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Part 2 of the Captain Marvel / Bulletman / Captain Marvel Jr. vs. Captain Nazi trilogy. Story continued from Master Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #21 and story continues in Master Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #22. Second appearance of the Wizard Shazam.

Raboy pencilled the Freddie Freeman / Captain Marvel Jr. figures throughout.

Script and colorist revisions from France to Ed Herron by Craig Delich. Addition of Woolfolk per Alter Ego #156 (January 2019).
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Strongest Man in the World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Carol Braddock (last appearance); Great Beefo (villain; introduction)
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Pages: 9
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The Origin of Shazam: 1: Solomon -- Wisest of Men

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Manly Wade Wellman [as Juan Lopez]
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Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Biography of Solomon.
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America-Smasher's Ski Tank

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Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): America-Smasher (Villain)
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Spy Smasher gets his green uniform in this story.
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Red Bart's Evil Plot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Death Guards Ride

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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Anita; Nero; Death Guards (villains; introduction); Don Luis; Herculo Svenson; Doctor Voodoo [Hal Carey]
Synopsis: Hal and Nero are rescued from the burning ship by Don Luis. Anita is taken from Svenson by the Death Guards who then kill him. Hal rescues Anita from the Death guards and then is equipped by Don Luis to continue his pursuit of the Golden Flask, now held by the master of the Death Guards, Black Marco
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Part 8 of Golden Flask Quest.
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The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Ibis; Taia; Birbo (villain, introduction, death); Rameses [Rameses II?] (villain, introduction, death but revived in this story)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Story continues in next issue.

Script credit by Craig Delich, per Bill Schelly, in Alter Ego #147 (July 2017).

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