Whiz Comics
| Whiz Comics | |
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 Whiz Comics #2 (February 1940), the first appearance of Captain Marvel. Cover art by C. C. Beck. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Fawcett Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Anthology |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Publication date | Feb. 1940 – June 1953 |
| Number of issues | 155 |
| Main character(s) | Captain Marvel |
Whiz Comics was a monthly ongoing comic book anthology series, published by Fawcett Comics from 1940–1953, best known for introducing Captain Marvel.
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[edit] Publication history
The first issue published of Whiz Comics was issue #2, published with a cover-date of Feb. 1940. Fawcett created two black-and-white ashcan #1 issues to solicit advertisers and to secure the copyrights to the material. The two copies were identical but carried different titles: Flash Comics and Thrill Comics; the Captain Marvel character was called Captain Thunder in a near-identical story. When Fawcett went to press with the magazine, the first issue was retitled as Whiz Comics, a name inspired by the company's bawdy humor magazine, Captain Billy's Whiz Bang.[1] Further complicating matters, when they got to issue #3, Fawcett, through either mistake or intent, used the number twice. Thus, if viewed from the perspective of the second #3 (and, therefore, all the issues that followed it), Whiz #2 unofficially became Whiz #1.
The cover art for the first issue showed Captain Marvel throwing a vehicle at a wall, and was inspired by the cover of Action Comics #1, which shows Superman lifting a car.[citation needed]
[edit] Recurring features
Whiz contained the following features depicting adventures of various superhero characters:
[edit] References
[edit] Notes
- ^ Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (Gemstone Publishing, 2007), pp 592–593.
[edit] Sources consulted
- Whiz Comics at the Grand Comics Database
- Whiz Comics at the Comic Book DB
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