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Issue: Whiz Comics #43 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1943
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Issues: #43 of 155 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: A Fawcett MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/12/1943
Volume: 8
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 38, Numbers 1-4. January-December 1943. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 586226. Fawcett also reported to the Copyright Office that this issue was still volume 7 and that the publication date was June 9. Neither appeared in this actual issue printed.
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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]; Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]
First Line: Have you seen the sinister spies on page 19?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Possibly the first appearance of a television on the cover of an American comic.
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In This Issue

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
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Sabotage at the Printing Plant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Ibis; Golden Arrow [Roger Parsons]; Captain Marvel. Jr. [Freddy Freeman] (cameo); Steamboat; Rod Reed (? appears); Adolf Hitler (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: The Nazis try to stop Whiz Comics from being printed.
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In Content Item: FlagWhiz Comics v2 #10 published October 1943
as Sabotage at the Printing Plant [Story on Interior Page(s)]script only
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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Spy Smasher Discovers the Streamlined Treasure Island!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Boy King; the Japanese (villains); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: Spy Smasher discovers a modern-day Treasure Island when he is forced to defend a small island in the Atlantic from invading Japanese and German forces.
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In Content Item: FlagSpy Smasher Comics v2 #5 published December 1943
as Spy Smasher Discovers the Streamlined Treasure [Story on Interior Page(s)]redrawn
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #69 published October 2007
as The Streamlined Treasure Island [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Story based on Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND.

Art credit of Blum per Otto Binder in article in Alter Ego #121 (November 2013).
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Golden Arrow and the Petrified Forest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Golden Arrow [Roger Parsons]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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The Mystery of the Ghost Destroyer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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In Content Item: FlagWhiz Comics v2 #10 published October 1943
as The Mystery of the Ghost Destroyer [Story on Interior Page(s)]script only
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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As Good as Dead

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Tender
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): The Devil; Nero; Brutus; Robespierre
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Story based on Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster".

His name is Hebberd, not Hebboa, as previously stated. One of his trademarks are googly eyes and high arched eyebrows.

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