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Whiz Comics

The second most popular superhero of the day. Captain Marvel, faced a similar dilemma, but with one exception he had better writers. The Adventures of Captain Marvel and Whiz Comics provided the most imaginative comic book treatment of atomic themes for the entire postwar era. Many of the approximately five hundred Captain Marvel stories were written by former pulp fiction writer Otto Binder and usually drawn by master artist C. C. Beck. They combined their talents to create a kindly, often obtuse, even whimsical superhero whose sales eventually topped those of Superman in the late 1940s. (His enemies called him "the Big Red Cheese.")... [Pg.60]

Whiz Comics 150 (October 1952) (Fawcett) Savage, Comic Books and America, 20-21. [Pg.144]

Whiz Comics 82 (February 1947) (Fawcett). Captain Marvel Adventures 107 (April 1950) (Fawcett). Captain Marvel Adventures 78 (November 1947) (Fawcett). Bradford W. Wright, Comic Book Nation The Transformation of Youth Culture in America (Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 69-71. Captain Marvel Adventures 76 (September 1947) (Fawcett), 46-47. [Pg.144]

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