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WHIZ COMICS #5

Cover Date: June 1940
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1940-04-26

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Cover Credits:
Art: C.C. Beck


Story: [No Title] (11 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Parker
ArtC.C. Beck
LetteringBill Parker
EditingBill Parker

Feature Character(s):

Captain Marvel

Villain(s):

Mr. Scar (first appearance; uses a brainwashing device to get kids to commit crimes in Washington DC)
Chung (first appearance; uses a brainwashing device to get kids to commit crimes in New York City, NY)
Dr. Aloysius Lake (first appearance; mastermind behind the robbery scheme)

Location(s):

Earth-S
Washington, DC
New York City, NY
Chicago, IL
San Francisco, CA

Story Reprinted in:

The Shazam! Archives #1 (1992)


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Second Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Parker
ArtPete Costanza
LetteringBill Parker
EditingBill Parker

Feature Character(s):

Golden Arrow

Supporting Character(s):

White Wind
Carol Braddock (first appearance; nearly killed by Bronk and Brute, her uncles, for her inheritance when she comes of age)

Villain(s):

Bronk and Brute Braddock

Location(s):

American Southwest


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Third Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Parker
ArtBob Kinglet
LetteringBill Parker
EditingBill Parker

Feature Character(s):

Lance O'Casey

Supporting Character(s):

Mister Hogan
Captain Daniel Doom

Location(s):

Malonana
South Seas

Comment(s):

Brian Boru is wrecked on Shipwreck Shoal.


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Parker
PencilsC.C. Beck
InksPete Costanza
LetteringBill Parker
EditingBill Parker

Feature Character(s):

Spy Smasher

Supporting Character(s):

Admiral Corby
Eve Corby (becomes her father's executive secretary)

Villain(s):

Gerald Schlitzoff (first appearance; steals plans for a new tank; working for The Mask)
Mask

Location(s):

Washington, DC


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Parker
ArtGreg Duncan
EditingBill Parker

Feature Character(s):

Scoop Smith

Supporting Character(s):

Bruce Lane
"Blimp" Black

Villain(s):

King Cortes (first appearance; leader of a group of subterranean people; plans to lead an "invisible army" to take over Mexico; dies)

Location(s):

Mexico
Scorpia (first appearance; a small underworld nation; all die)


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Parker
PencilsC.C. Beck
InksPete Costanza
LetteringBill Parker
EditingBill Parker

Feature Character(s):

Ibis

Supporting Character(s):

Taia

Villain(s):

Murder Malone and two thugs (first appearance for all; an outlaw and illegal munitions maker; all three changed to toads)

Location(s):

New Thebes

Comment(s):

This story continued in the next issue.


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