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Issue: Shield-Wizard Comics #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1941
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Issues: #3 of 13 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry Shorten
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
Inker(s): Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Maharajah Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten [as Shorten] (signed)
Penciller(s): Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
Inker(s): Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Trigger Yancey (villain, introduction); Maharani of Robat (villain, introduction); Maharajah of Robat (introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Dusty appears in this and all subsequent Shield stories.

Title taken from ad for comic in BLUE RIBBON COMICS #14.
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The Mystery of the Flying Dutchman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
Inker(s): Irv Novick [as Novick] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Flying Dutchman and his gang (villain, introduction, not the hero from AIR FIGHTERS COMICS)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Death Below

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Irv Novick
Inker(s): Irv Novick
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Mamie Mazda; Mayor Link (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Title taken from ad for comic in BLUE RIBBON COMICS #14.
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The Red Birds of Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Cogswell; Schwartz (death)
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Pages: 2
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The Corpses That Wouldn't Stay Home

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Mort Meskin [as Mort] (signed)
Inker(s): Mort Meskin [as Mort] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): McGonicle (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Roy appears in most Wizard stories hereafter.

Signed MORT in the water at right in first panel. Mort was pen name for Mort Meskin.

Title taken from ad for comic in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1939 series) #14.
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The Monster of Madness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Mort Meskin [as Mort] (signed)
Inker(s): Mort Meskin [as Mort] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Rollo (villain, introduction, death); Jenkins (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Signed MORT on the oil lamp in splash panel. Credited pen name for Mort Meskin by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

Title taken from ad for comic in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1939 series) #14.

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