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Issue: Shield-Wizard Comics #5 (1) Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1940
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Issues: #5 (1) 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: 06/20/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Mistakenly numbered as #5 in indicia.

On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 459479. Was recorded as issue #5 by the Copyright Office.

Dusty does not appear with Shield.
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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
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spirit of '76
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In Content Item: FlagAmerica's 1st Patriotic Comic Book Hero, The Shield #1 published January 2002
as Cover to Shield-Wizard Comics #5 (1) [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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First Line: Four of the fastest selling comic magazines
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Pages: 1
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The Origin of the Shield

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): J. Edgar Hoover; Lt. Tom Higgins (Joe's father, introduction, death); Dick (District Attorney); Hans Fritz (villain, introduction); unnamed Nazi spies (villains)
First Line: ...And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, yet our flag and the Shield stand so steadfastly there.
Synopsis: When his father is killed by German spies in 1916, young Joe Higgins continues his work to create a formula to give a person super strength and invulnerability. He uses those powers to clear his late father's reputation involving the Black Tom explosion.
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In Content Item: FlagAmerica's 1st Patriotic Comic Book Hero, The Shield #1 published January 2002
as The Origin of the Shield [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Story takes place chronologically before Pep Comics #1.
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The Origin of the Shield: Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): J. Edgar Hoover; John Ingot (introduction); Ruby Ingot (John's daughter, introduction); unnamed company guards (villains, introduction for all)
First Line: The F.B.I. needs men like you, Joe.... but you'll have to take the exams just like anybody else...
Synopsis: Joe Higgins joins the F.B.I and goes on his first case to rescue John Ingot from kidnappers.
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In Content Item: FlagAmerica's 1st Patriotic Comic Book Hero, The Shield #1 published January 2002
as The Origin of the Shield, Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Next chronological Shield appearance is in Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) #1 (January 1940).
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Lou Zefke's Murder Syndicate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): J. Edgar Hoover; unnamed District Attorney; unnamed Mayor; Ilia Morgan (introduction); Ilia's father (death); Lou Zefke (villain, introduction); unnamed lawyer for Zefke (villain)
First Line: .......That this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth!
Synopsis: Joe Higgins and Ju Ju Watson are sent to investigate why all the witnesses in Lou Zefke's trial end up dead.
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In Content Item: FlagAmerica's 1st Patriotic Comic Book Hero, The Shield #1 published January 2002
as Lou Zepke's Murder Syndicate [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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First Line: The Shield G-Man extraordinary appears every issue in Pep Comics
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Shows the cover of Pep Comics #7.
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The Vampire Murders

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): J. Edgar Hoover; John Bascom; Jean Bascom
Synopsis: The Shield fights a vampire.
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Pages: 2
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The Historical Story of Blane Whitney

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Subject Matter
Genres: historical, superhero
Character(s): John Whitney (Blane's father, death); Mary Whitney (Blane's mother); Grover Whitney (Blane's brother); General George Washington; Paul Revere; Thomas Jefferson; Samuel Adams; Ezra Sellers (villain, introduction); the Indians (villains); the British (villains)
Synopsis: The story of the first Wizard who fought in the Revolutionary War.
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Pages: 11
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The Battle of Bunker Hill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical, superhero
Character(s): General George Washington; Nathan Hale; James Blane (Blane's uncle, introduction); The British (villains); General Rahl; Ezra Sellers
Synopsis: The Wizard helps out with several battles of the Revolutionary War.
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: All stories take place during the Revolutionary War.
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The Treason of Benedict Arnold

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Subject Matter
Genres: historical, superhero
Character(s): General George Washington; Colonel Benedict Arnold (villain); the British (villains); Ezra Sellers (villain, death); General Henry Cornwallis (villain); Major John Andre (villain, introduction); Mad Anthony Wayne; General Gates; Admiral De Grasse
First Line: Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!
Synopsis: The Wizard helps with more battles in the Revolutionary War.
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Pages: 8
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
First Line: The Wizard the man with the super-brain appears every issue in Top-Notch Comics
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Shows the cover of Top-Notch Comics #8.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Free catalog of novelties
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Act now! On this bargain offer.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Remington Rand Inc.

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