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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
Rating:
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: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry Shorten
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
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Irv Novick
Inker(s): Irv Novick
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shield; The Wizard
Character(s): The Wizard [Blane Whitney] (also in inset); The Shield [Joe Higgins] (also in inset); 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 #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Origin of the Shield

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Irv Novick
Inker(s): Irv Novick
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shield, G-Man Extraordinary
Character(s): The Shield [Joe Higgins] (origin told in detail for the 1st time); Lt. Tom Higgins (Joe's father, introduction, death); J. Edgar Hoover; Dick (District Attorney); Hans Fritz (villain, introduction); un-named Nazi spies (villains)
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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Story takes place before Pep Comics #1.
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The Origin of the Shield: Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Irv Novick
Inker(s): Irv Novick
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shield, G-Man Extraordinary
Character(s): The Shield [Joe Higgins]; Ju Ju Watson (G-Man, origin, 1st chronological appearance); J. Edgar Hoover; John Ingot (introduction); Ruby Ingot (John's daughter, introduction); un-named company guards (villains, introduction for all)
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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Next Shield appearance is in Pep Comics #1.
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Lou Zepke's Murder Syndicate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Irv Novick
Inker(s): Irv Novick
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shield, G-Man Extraordinary
Character(s): The Shield [Joe Higgins]; J. Edgar Hoover; un-named District Attorney; un-named Mayor; Ilia Morgan (introduction); Ju Ju Watson; Ilia's father (death); Lou Zefke (villain, introduction); un-named lawyer for Zefke (villain)
Synopsis: Joe Higgins and Ju Ju Watson are sent to investigate why all the witnesses in Lou Zepke'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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Vampire Murders

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Irv Novick
Inker(s): Irv Novick
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shield
Character(s): The Shield [Joe Higgins]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Historical Story of Blane Whitney

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Edd Ashe
Inker(s): Edd Ashe
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Wizard
Character(s): The Wizard [Blane Whitney] (introduction, origin); 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)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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The Battle of Bunker Hill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Edd Ashe
Inker(s): Edd Ashe
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Wizard
Character(s): The Wizard [Blane Whitney]; General George Washington; Nathan Hale; James Blane (Blane's uncle, introduction); The British (villains)
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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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten [as H. Shorten] (signed)
Penciller(s): Edd Ashe [as Ed. Ashe] (signed)
Inker(s): Edd Ashe [as Ed. Ashe] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Wizard
Character(s): The Wizard (Blane Whitney]; General George Washington; Colonel Benedict Arnold (villain); the British (villains); Ezra Sellers (villain, death); General Henry Cornwallis (villain); Major John Andre (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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