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Issue Details

Issue #22
Published January 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing France Herron?

Cover Details - "The Wax Death!"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Susan Kent [Bulletgirl]; Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger]; Dr. Eternity
Genre Superhero
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Shazam! Archives, The (DC, 1992 series) #4 (February 2004)

15 page Bulletman story "The Wax Death"

Characters Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Susan Kent [Bulletgirl]; Sgt. Kent; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Sir Henry Eliot (first appearance; death); Sir Henry Welch (first appearance); Peter Costo (a wax figure); Sir Clarence Beck (a wax figure); Irwin Wile (a wax figure); Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger] (villain); Dr. Eternity (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis Bulletman and Captain Marvel, Jr. team up to stop Dr. Eternity and Captain Nazi.
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Woolfolk?
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Notes Title from cover; Story continued from Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #25.
Reprinted in Shazam! Archives, The (DC, 1992 series) #4 (February 2004)

10 page Minute Man story "The Hawk"

Characters Minute Man [Jack Weston]; The Hawk (first appearance; villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Phil Bard
Inks Phil Bard

7 page El Carim story "The Return of the Little Men"

Characters El Carim; The Little Men From the Mountain
Genre occult; superhero
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska

2 page text story "Flying Murder"

Script Joseph J. Millard
Letters typeset

7 page Buck Jones, Frontier Marshall story "Salty Bill and the Gold Mine"

Genre western
Pencils Ken Battefield
Inks Ken Battefield

8 page Companions Three story "Sue Belle, Fight Fixer"

Genre adventure
Pencils Kin Platt?
Inks Kin Platt?

7 page Captain Venture and the Planet Princess story "The End of King Leon"

Characters V: King Leon (D)
Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Howard Purcell
Inks Howard Purcell
Notes last appearance. Art credits from Jack Butterworth, owner of a page of original art from the story, via the GCD Error List, 8 May 2005. The original indexer credited the art to Rafael Astarita ?.

7 page Zoro, The Mystery Man story "The Tomb of Tut Ankhara"

Genre superhero
Notes last appearance