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Issue: Whiz Comics #6 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1940
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Issues: #6 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: 05/24/1940
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: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3. Copyright No. B 455913. See https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/application-card/CC19381945B_454000-455999.1912 for more details. Copyright renewed 1967-06-07 as RE 411639 from Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Part 2: Periodicals Jan-Dec 1967: Vol 21, page 407.
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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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The Circus of Death

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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Lovelia
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #1 [First Printing] published November 1992
as Cover - Whiz Comics #6 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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The Circus of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Lovelia (tightrope walker); Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain); Clarence the Maniac Man (villain); Gorillion (villain, beast, death)
Synopsis: Billy visits to report on a new circus that has come to town, unaware that Dr. Sivana is behind the scheme, his intent being to bring rare and unusual animals from Venus for people to view, and make a fortune legally.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #1 [First Printing] published November 1992
as The Circus of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the cover.
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The Bank Robbery That Backfired

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Genres: western
Character(s): Bronk and Brute Braddock (Villain)
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Pages: 8
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The Launch of the BRIAN BORU II

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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 8
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Amusement Park Assassin

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Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): The Mask (Villain)
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Pages: 8
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A Beggar Reclaimed

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Letterer(s): Typeset
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The Great World's Fair Mystery

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Genres: mystery
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Pages: 8
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The Emperor of the Bahamas

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Genres: mystery
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: last Scoop Smith story
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The Lost Ibistick

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Genres: occult, superhero
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Pages: 9
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