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Issue: Whiz Comics #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1940
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Issues: #3 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: 01/12/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Parker
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 440639. See https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/application-card/CC19381945B_440000-441999.0640 for more detail. Renewed 1967-05-17 as No. RE 410147 from Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Part 2: Periodicals Jan-Dec 1967: Vol 21, page 406.
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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
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; the Nazis
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #1 [First Printing] published November 1992
as Cover - Whiz Comics #3 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Sivana Strikes Again

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Dr. Sivana (villain); Sivana's un-named General (villain)
Synopsis: Sivana sends a note to the President of the United States, demanding that he resign and allow Sivana to become Emperor of the United States. Otherwise, the mad scientist will destroy the country.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #1 [First Printing] published November 1992
as The Return of Sivana [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: The figure of Captain Marvel in chains in panel 4 on page 12 is found on the cover to the Flash Comics #1 ashcan for January of 1940.
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The Rustlers of Gila Creek

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Golden Arrow [Roger Parson]; Bronk (villain); Brute Braddock (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Diamond of Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Pages: 2
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The Search for Wilson Drake

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Scoop Smith
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Continued next issue.
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The Kidnapping of Taia

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Ibis; Taia; Hamed (villain, introduction, becomes a pig)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Continued next issue.
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Death Dawson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lance O'Casey; Death Dawson (villain; introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Five Hundred Thousand Dollars or Else

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dan Dare; Taki (introduction); The Bomb [Dynamite Davis] (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 8
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Spy Smasher Unmasks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Eve Corby; The Mask (villain)
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Spy Smasher reveals secret identity to Eve Corby.

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