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Issue: Whiz Comics #1
Publication Date: January 1943
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Issues: #1 of 43 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagAnglo-American Publishing Company Limited
Brand: Double 'A' Comics AAView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Anglo-American Publishing Company, Limited
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 64
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia on back cover states: Whiz Comics, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1943. Published every month by the Anglo-American Publishing Co. Ltd., Toronto, Ontario. Registered at the Post Office Department, Ottawa, as second-class mailing matter. Contents copyrights. All rights reserved. Any similarity between the characters contained herein and any persons living or dead, is purely coincidental.
On last page of book it states: Whiz Comics in the United States copyright 1941, 1942 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. Printed by the Globe Printing Company, Toronto, Canada.

Indexed from scans of covers and some interior pages in an eBay auction. Needs to be confirmed from actual copy.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Captain Marvel.. The World's Mightiest Man Springs Into Action.....

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel
Synopsis: Captain Marvel bursts through the roof of a house.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Ghost of the White Room

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagCaptain Marvel Adventures #7 published February 1942
was The Ghost of the White Room [Story on Interior Page(s)]script only
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Side-by-side comparison of the first pages of the original and this version of the story show the same script and general idea of what is going on in each panel but a completely different layout and character placement. Starts on page numbered 3 (cover numbered 1, inside cover numbered 2).
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The Gypsy Brigands

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dr. Voodoo
Character(s): Dr. Voodoo
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWhiz Comics #34 published September 1942
was The Gypsy Brigands [Story on Interior Page(s)]script only
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: First line: "Fate has been kind to Dr. Voodoo at last! After endless searching he has found the legendary golden flask." Title taken from index of American story that the script for this one came from. Starts on page numbered 18. Side by side comparison shows that the script has been re-used but the artwork and layout are all new.
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The Island of Whanno!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Feature(s): Spy Smasher
Character(s): Spy Smasher
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWhiz Comics #34 published September 1942
was The Island of Whanno [Story on Interior Page(s)]script only
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Starts on page numbered 24. Side by side comparison with the original shows that the script is reused but the artwork is totally new.
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A Blood Feud is a Deadly Thing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): J. Banfield
Inker(s): J. Banfield
Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Golden Arrow
Character(s): Golden Arrow
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWhiz Comics #34 published September 1942
was Golden Arrow Settles a Feud [Story on Interior Page(s)]script only
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Title in the original is "Golden Arrow Settles a Feud". Side by side comparison shows that the script is the same but the artwork and layout are different. Story is signed on the first page but signature is difficult to make out.
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The Horrible Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): Ibis the Invincible
Character(s): Ibis
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWhiz Comics #34 published September 1942
was The Horrible Hand [Story on Interior Page(s)]script only
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Starts on page numbered 45. Side by side comparison of original and this version shows that the script has been re-used but the artwork and layout are all new.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Lance O'Casey
Character(s): Lance O'Casey; Mike Bellew; Oula
First Line: Trouble and Lance O'Casey somehow go together!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWhiz Comics #34 published September 1942
was The Black Mandarin [Story on Interior Page(s)]script only
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Starts on page 55 of comic. Titled "The Black Mandarin" in the original. Side by side comparison of the first pages of the two versions shows the script has been re-used but the artwork and layout is all new.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; Betty Mercer ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel; Spy Smasher
First Line: Welcome to the screen, Spy Smasher!
Synopsis: Ad for Spy Smasher serial from Republic with a coupon to mail to the editor of Double-A Comics to request that your local theatre runs it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover of comic. Page numbered 63.
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Who Makes a Hit With All the Family?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Ad for Captain Marvel comics, with a boy and a girl reading comics while their grand-mother knits.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On back cover of comic. Also includes indicia.

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