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Issue: Whiz Comics #30 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1942
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Issues: #30 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: 04/17/1942
Volume: 5
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] (also inset); Billy Batson (inset)
First Line: With a crash of thunder, mighty Captain Marvel leaps to battle!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inker revision from Costanza ? to Beck, per P. C. Hamerlinck, added by Craig Delich.
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contents page

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
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The Heritage of the Batsons

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] Steamboat; B. X. Batson (introduction, possibly Billy's grandfather)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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Golden Arrow Elects a Sheriff

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Subject Matter
Genres: western
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The story title is from the contents page.
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Mr. Zero

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Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Herr Zero [Carl Davis] (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: contents page title
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Shazam! Mercury, Swifter than Thought

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The sixth and final part of the Origin of Shazam series.
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Pearl Dive of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lance O'Casey; Hogan (a monkey); Aber; Suli; Meli (Suli's sister); Boss Dubbin (villain, a pearler); Hawkins (villain, reforms); Carse (villain, death)
Synopsis: O'Casey and Hogan are ship-wrecked during a typhoon and are washed up on an island, where they meet a brother and sister who tell him that a local pearler is cheating the divers by not paying them. O'Casey agrees to act as diver for Boss Dubbin, but is double-crossed, which almost costs him his life!
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the contents page.

Last appearance of Hogan.
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March of the Crusaders!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical, jungle
Character(s): Anita; Nero; Doctor Voodoo [Hal Carey]; Emir Abdullah; Sir Gavain
Synopsis: Hal and Nero join a group of Crusaders on the trail of Abdullah and Anita. The Crusaders win a battle with Abdullah's men and Hal and Nero sneak into the Saracens' fortress and free Anita and secure the Flask.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Part 12 of Golden Flask Quest.
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The Headless Horseman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIbis [Mighty Midget Comic] #11 published January 1942
as The Headless Horseman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: The story title is taken from the contents page.

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