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Issue: Wham Comics #2
Publication Date: December 1940
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: December, 1940. Number 2. 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.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Blue Fire
Character(s): Blue Fire [Jack Knapp]; The Frost
First Line: Wham! The Frost
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Pages: 1
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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 front cover.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Blue Fire
Character(s): Blue Fire [Jack Knapp] (introduction, origin); The Frost (introduction)
First Line: Blue Fire is a real figure of mystery to the world...
Synopsis: Jack Knapp, who spends his time experimenting with chemicals, causes an explosion that surrounds him with blue flame. While the fire engulfs him, he can pass through any object. Memorizing the formula, he goes to investigate an ocean liner sabotaged by a strange man encased in ice. Blue Fire discovers the Frost, a foreign agent who can freeze himself and his surroundings by consuming a small pill. Their powers produce a stalemate, but Jack only captures him temporarily.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #83 published October 2010
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]in black and white
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #13 published August 2013
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9.67
Disclose Notes: The story was intended to continue in the next issue, but Centaur Publications, Inc. cancelled all of its titles and folded.

Script credit from Who's Who.
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Boys--Girls! Solve this Puzzle!

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Solarman
Character(s): Solarman (introduction, origin); Quino (Saturian scientist, introduction); Al Ravoni (villain, gangster); Joe (villain); Tony (villain)
First Line: Close to the heart of the great solar system lies the orbit of the moon-ringed planet of Saturn, where people live in peace and crime is unknown!!
Synopsis: On Saturn, the dwarf scientist Quino sends Solarman to help the people of Earth. His first assignment is to capture a fugitive gangster attempting to leave the country on a forged passport and bring him to justice.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #87 published January 2012
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #13 published August 2013
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Who's Who.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sparkler [Red Morgan]
First Line: Telegram for Mr. Morgan, sir.
Synopsis: The Sparkler must track down Queen Marie and her mob who are smuggling diamonds.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Who's Who.
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How the Buzzard Came to Be!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Buzzard
Character(s): The Buzzard [Flash] (introduction, origin); The Mayor (introduction); The Police Chief (introduction); Flash's girlfriend (introduction)
Synopsis: The Mayor gives an unidentified man a device that produces a gas that makes all see him as the "nemesis of the underworld", The Buzzard (an odd man in tails with glasses, a large beak-like nose and a receding hairline)! When the Chief of Police hears that his forces have a gang cornered in a building, he rushes to the scene, expressing his annoyance over his son Flash's presence in the police department. To his dismay, the Buzzard routs the gang before the police can do anything. Flash and his girlfriend are amused by the Chief's frustration, as they know that Flash is in fact the Buzzard.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Technically, the title applies to the three-panel strip that briefly gives the Buzzard's origin before the main story starts.
Writing credit from Who's Who.
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Light Signals

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Blue Fire
Character(s): Blue Fire [Dick Knapp] (name was Jack Knapp in the lead story); The Frost; Tanya Gerhst (introduction)
Synopsis: Blue Fire corners the Frost and his spy Tanya, preventing them from attacking an ocean liner. But they escape his grasp once more.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Who's Who identifies Eric Reid as a byline.
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Larry Hunter
Character(s): Larry Hunter (introduction, origin)
First Line: Larry Hunter, young psychology professor...
Synopsis: Professor Larry Hunter is detoured on his way to a lecture and is imprisoned by Dr. Z, who has been studying the same topics of thought reception. Dr. Z forces Larry to work to complete his thought receiver, but with the help of fellow captive Mary Brown and the now-working receiver, Larry and Mary both escape. Larry vows to use the receiver to fight crime.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Only appearance of the Larry Hunter feature
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Spark O'Leary
First Line: Spark O'Leary is finishing his evening news broadcast...
Synopsis: Spark uses radio to help the police catch a gang that's been blowing up buildings.
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Pages: 7
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"Satan" Takes a Holiday

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Jeb Tinker
Character(s): Jeb Tinker; Miss Laru; Sargent Dooley; Rosie; "Satan" (a gangster)
Synopsis: Jeb and Laru get tangled up in a case involving $40,000 in the basement and a gangster who calls himself "Satan".
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From Content Item: FlagKeen Detective Funnies v2 #11 published November 1939
was Satan Takes a Holiday [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Craig Carter; Nikky Darnier; Professor Darnier; Zeus; Pluto; Thor
First Line: I'm telling you, Heinie, if we had that ring we'd be set for life!
Synopsis: After reading about the events from last issue in the paper, some thugs kidnap Nikky to force Craig to give them his magic ring. With the help of the gods at his command through the ring, Craig defeats them, but Pluto decides to have some "fun" rather than return to the ring once his work is done.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Who's Who.
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Berg "Stout Fellow"

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: biography, nature, non-fiction
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wilson Chem. Co., Inc.
First Line: Mail coupon! Given Nothing to buy!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Some panels tinted pink, otherwise black and white.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Company
First Line: Boys! Girls! Have you seen our new 1941 catalog?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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