Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1940-04-26
Editing: Bill Parker (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #5 Edit Cover
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[Captain Marvel Scores Again]
(Table of Contents)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / cover / 1 page

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Issue Data

Indexer Notes

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 No. B 452785. This was also reported as issue #5 to the Copyright Office. See https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/application-card/CC19381945B_452000-453999.0787 for more details. Copyright renewed 1967-06-01 as RE 411107 from Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Part 2: Periodicals Jan-Dec 1967: Vol 21, page 407.

[The Slaves of Dr. Scar]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 11.66 pages

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un-named FBI Chief; Joe; Mr. Levy (jewelry store owner); Mr. Scar (villain, introduction); Dr. Aloysius Lake (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
In Washington D.C., Billy is in town to help the FBI to track down a phantom genius of crime who plans to carry out a fiendish scheme for wholesale robbery throughout the nation.
Reprints (1)

[Enter: Carol Braddock]
(Table of Contents: 2)

Golden Arrow / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:western-frontier; superhero
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Carol Braddock (introduction, the Braddock brothers' niece, appears in most stories through #25); Bronk Braddock (villain); Brute Braddock (villain)

[The Bucket O' Blood]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Lance O'Casey / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:adventure
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Sea Dogs
(Table of Contents: 4)

Lance O'Casey's Sea-Lore / comic story / 1 page

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The Convict's Ghost
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text story / 2 pages

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typeset

[Schlitzoff's Spy Plot]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Spy Smasher / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:spy; superhero
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Gerald Schlitzoff (villain)

The Great Rollo Mystery
(Table of Contents: 7)

Dan Dare / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:detective-mystery

Indexer Notes

Continued next issue. This story is influenced by Poe's "Murders In the Rue Morgue.

[The Kingdom of Scorpia]
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Scoop Smith / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:detective-mystery
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Scoop Smith; King Cortes (villain, introduction, death?)

[Showdown with Murder Malone]
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Ibis the Invincible / comic story / 9 pages

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Murder Malone (villain, becomes a toad)

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Continued in the next issue.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [Captain Marvel Scores Again]
    Captain Marvel / Shazam!
  2. [The Slaves of Dr. Scar]
    Captain Marvel / Shazam!
  3. [Enter: Carol Braddock]
    Golden Arrow
  4. [The Bucket O' Blood]
    Lance O'Casey
  5. Sea Dogs
    Lance O'Casey's Sea-Lore
  6. The Convict's Ghost
  7. [Schlitzoff's Spy Plot]
    Spy Smasher
  8. The Great Rollo Mystery
    Dan Dare
  9. [The Kingdom of Scorpia]
    Scoop Smith
  10. [Showdown with Murder Malone]
    Ibis the Invincible
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