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WHIZ COMICS #38

Cover Date: December 1942
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1942

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Cover Credits:
Art: Marc Swayze


Story: "The Grand Steeplechase" (17 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtMarc Swayze
ColorsMarc Swayze
EditingRon Reed

Feature Character(s):

Captain Marvel

Supporting Character(s):

Steamboat

Villain(s):

Odds Bodkins and his gang (first appearance for all; try to fix a horse race)


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Second Story: "The Vanishing Trains" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtAl Carreño
EditingRon Reed

Feature Character(s):

Golden Arrow

Supporting Character(s):

White Wind

Villain(s):

Poison-Weed Kerney and their gang (first appearance for all; try to frame a former train robber for new robberies)

Location(s):

American West


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Third Story: "The Phantom Sub" (9 Pages)

Credits:

ArtEmil Gershwin
EditingRon Reed

Feature Character(s):

Spy Smasher

Supporting Character(s):

Eve Corby
Admiral Corby

Villain(s):

Phantom Sub and its crew (first appearance for all; Nazis using a three-mast schooner altered to fire torpedoes at Allied vessels)

Location(s):

Washington, DC


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtClem Weisbecker
EditingRon Reed

Feature Character(s):

Lance O'Casey

Supporting Character(s):

Mike Bellew

Villain(s):

Japanese (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

A Dutch double-agent (first appearance; poses as Tiger Lily)

Location(s):

South Seas

Comment(s):

Starfish is the ship sailed by O'Casey and Bellew.


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Fifth Story: "Murgh the Merciless" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtBob Hebberd
EditingRon Reed

Feature Character(s):

Ibis (time travels to Egypt before he was born)

Supporting Character(s):

Taia (time travels to Egypt before she was born)

Villain(s):

Murgh (first appearance; time travels back to Ancient Egypt; transformed into a pillar in the Temple of Osiris)
Rotep (first appearance; an Egyptian criminal; dies)

Location(s):

Egypt (about 4000 years ago)


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