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Issue: Master Comics #22 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #22 of 133 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: 12/05/1941
Volume: 4
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): France Herron?
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 10.5" x 14" (#1-6); standard Golden Age U.S. (#7-133)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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ORIGINAL COVER ART from the Private Collection of Keif Fromm
This cover art to Master Comics #22 not only features the 1st Appearance of Captain Marvel, Jr. by none other than Mac Raboy, but it also happens to be the “Only Bondage Cover” that Raboy ever illustrated as well.
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The Wax Death!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Susan Kent [Bulletgirl]; Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger]; Dr. Eternity
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as Cover - Master Comics #22 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Wax Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Susan Kent [Bulletgirl]; Sgt. Kent; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Sir Henry Eliot (introduction, death); Sir Henry Welch (introduction); Peter Costo (a wax figure); Sir Clarence Beck (a wax figure); Irwin Wile (a wax figure); Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger] (villain); Dr. Eternity (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Bulletman vows to stop Dr. Eternity, who is determined to eliminate ten different people through his dreaded wax death and later teams with Captain Marvel Jr. to track down both Eternity and Captain Nazi.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as Dr. Eternity's Wax Death; [The Wax Death] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14.66
Disclose Notes: Title taken from the cover. Story continued from Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #25 (December 1941).

The last 1/3 of page 15 is an illustrated advertisement for the next issue of Bulletman Comics (#3).
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The Hawk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Minute Man [Jack Weston]; The Hawk (first appearance; villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Return of the Little Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): El Carim; The Little Men From the Mountain
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Flying Murder

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joseph J. Millard
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Salty Bill and the Gold Mine

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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Buck Jones; Silver (horse); Mesquite Mike (deputy); Susan Lee; Salty Bill (grandpa)
Synopsis: Buck and Mike help a lady in distress cross the desert using the wind to move her wagon.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Carlson can be recognized by his horses with rather long, narrow tapering heads and especially by his way of drawing the legs of running horses, with outstretched frontlegs, almost like a rocking horse.
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Sue Belle, Fight Fixer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The End of King Leon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): V: King Leon (D)
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Pages: 7
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The Tomb of Tut Ankhara

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Pages: 7
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