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Issue: Wham Comics #1
Publication Date: November 1940
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/05/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: November, 1940. Number 1. WHAM COMICS is published monthly by Centaur Publications, Inc., 221 East 20th St., Chicago, Illinois. Editorial and Executive Offices: 215 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. Application for entry as second class matter at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., pending. Single copies 10c; 15c in Canada. Yearly subscription $1.00 in the U.S.A. (other countries $1.50). Copyright 1940 by Centaur Publications, Inc. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in the U.S.A.

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. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
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): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Craig Carter; Zeus
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Pages: 1
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The Stamp Album

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tatham Stamp Co.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Upper half of inside front cover.
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Two of a Kind and Both Aces!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Lucey ?; ?
Inker(s): Harry Lucey ?; ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Super-Mystery Comics; Sure-Fire Comics
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Lower half of the inside front cover.

Reproduces in black and white all or parts of the covers to Sure Fire Comics (Ace Magazines, 1940 series) #v1#3[a] and Super-Mystery Comics (Ace Magazines, 1940 series) #v1#3.

Note that there is no mention whatsoever of the publisher of either book.
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Craig Carter and the Magic Ring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Craig Carter (introduction); Nikky Darnier (introduction); Professor Darnier (introduction); Zeus; Mercury; Pegasus
Synopsis: Craig declares to his girlfriend that he wants to become a crime fighter. He discovers that an Egyptian named Aben Toumaj whose life he once saved has given him a magical ring that commands the (Greek) gods (although Thor is also mentioned). When thieves steal the formula for a powerful acid from Nikky's father, Craig gets his first case!
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Credits suggested by the Who's Who.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Sparkler [Red Morgan]; Madge Sherman (introduction)
First Line: There's a nice quiet looking town.
Synopsis: The Sparkler stops in a supposedly quiet town where two mobs are fighting for control.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: previously appeared in Super Spy (Centaur, 1940 series) #1

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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Copper Slugg
Character(s): Copper Slugg; Police Chief
First Line: Stop thief
Synopsis: Slugg needs to learn to control his fists, but even though he gets suspended he still catches the crooks.
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Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Phantom Rider; Thunder (his horse)
First Line: Lin Wade, top waddy of the "Lazy Ranch", heads for town on an after round-up holiday.
Synopsis: The Phantom Rider saves a man who was framed for murder when he pulled his gun but did not shoot it.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: last appeared in Funny Pages (Centaur, 1936 series) #34; last appearance
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The Mystery of the "Circle-X"

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Gill
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Speed Silvers; Mike Muldoon
First Line: Along a southern route from California roars the Eagle, fastest and newest train of the streamlined railroads.
Synopsis: Mike reminisces to Speed about the old days of the railroad and wishes they'd get robbed, and then they do.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: previously appeared in Amazing Adventure Funnies (Centaur, 1940 series) #2.

Silvers' last appearance.

Gustavson's credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Jon Linton; Dr. Kane; Lisa Kane; Alpha-712
First Line: I'll bet the Nogos steal our dinosaur idea, Jon!
Synopsis: After Jon helps Alpha defeat the Nogos, he and the Kanes journey back to the 3rd dimension and Earth. To their surprise, Alpha joins them en route and explains that they may have travelled in time as well as space. They arrive in 1940, sixty years before their time, and are greeted with suspicion and disbelief.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: previously appeared in Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #23; last appearance

Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

The story ends fairly abruptly, and there appears to be a box for a "continued next issue" blurb, but it is blank and the feature did not appear in issue #2.
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"Togo" Hero of the Alaskan Trail

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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Speed Centaur; Jerry "Reel" McCoy
First Line: With Reel trying to scoop the newspaper world...
Synopsis: Speed takes Reel to see the ruined city of his people, but they are captured by hostile humans who have taken up residence there.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: last appeared in Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #24; last appearance
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Detecto
Character(s): Jack Strand
First Line: After all my tiresome research I have finally succeeded -- I have discovered -- a wonder beam!
Synopsis: Scientist Jack Strand discovers "detecto," the wonder beam, and installs it in his car. When he hears of a dangerous criminal on the loose, Jack pursues him and captures him using detecto.
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Pages: 5
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Amazing Facts
First Line: Did you know that? Andrew Johnson
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Who's Who.
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This Beautiful Desk for only $1.00

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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"Boys! Girls! Have you seen our new 1941 catalog?"

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Company
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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