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Famous First Edition F-4
Famous First Edition F-4

Introducing Captain Marvel!

"By speaking my name you can become the strongest and mightiest man in the world - Captain Marvel!"
--Shazam


Contents

Summary

Volume: 1
Issue: F-4
Month: October-November
Year: 1974

Credits

Head Writer: Bill Parker
Cover Artists: C.C. Beck
Pencilers: C.C. Beck
Inkers: C.C. Beck
Colourists: Bill Parker
Editors: (Original) Bill Parker; (Reprint editor) E. Nelson Bridwell

Synopsis

Cast of Characters:

Locations:

Items:

First Appearances: Shazam (a wizard); Captain Marvel (a super-hero); Doctor Sivana (a mad scientist); Ebenezer Batson (Billy Batson's uncle); Sterling Morris (station manager for WHIZ Radio)
Final Appearances: No final appearances

Synopsis: One evening a ten-year-old newspaper boy named Billy Batson is hawking newspapers on the streets of Fawcett City, when a strange shadowy man in a long coat approaches him. He beckons Billy to follow him, and leads him underground into a dilapidated subway station. A driverless subway car unlike any Billy has ever seen before, roars to the platform and the two get on board. The car speeds off deep underground, bringing them to a vast cavern known as the Rock of Eternity. Billy disembarks and both the subway train and the cloaked stranger mysteriously disappear. Before him Billy sees two rows of statues lining each side of the cavern. Each statue is forged in the likeness of a horrific monster, representing the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man.

At the anterior of the cavern, he finds an old man with a flowing white beard sitting on a stone throne. Above him is a large boulder suspended from the ceiling of the cavern by a tiny, fraying thread. The old man introduces himself as a wizard named Shazam, and tells Billy that he has chosen him to be his champion against injustice. The wizard lights a brazier next to the throne, illuminating the names of six mythological elders inscribed on the wall behind it; Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury. He explains that each of these elders will bestow an aspect of their power unto Billy, and all the boy has to do to acquire such power is to speak the wizard's name.

Billy shouts the name "Shazam", and a bolt of mystic lightning strikes down from out of nowhere, transforming the ten-year-old boy into a powerful, muscle-bound adult. Shazam christens his new champion Captain Marvel and salutes him.

Moments later, the thread securing the boulder above Shazam's head snaps, and the rock crashes down, killing the wizard. Shazam's spirit rises from the debris and tells Billy that his ghost will always be present inside the Rock of Eternity, should the neophyte hero ever need his guidance.

Captain Marvel leaves the Rock of Eternity to begin his newfound career. He learns that a local mad scientist named Dr. Sivana has created a Radio Silencer that will block all radio signals from leaving the city. He intends on cutting the city off from the rest of the world, unless he receives 50,000 dollars. Captain Marvel arrives and destroys Sivana's equipment. Sivana curses Marvel's name swearing revenge against him – a goal he will spend the next several decades trying to accomplish.

Ibis the Invincible

Ibis Lives Again!

Credits

Head Writer: Bill Parker
Pencilers: C.C. Beck
Inkers: C.C. Beck
Colourists: Bill Parker
Editors: Bill Parker

Synopsis

Cast of Characters:

First Appearances: Ibis (a sorcerer); Taia (a princess)
Final Appearances: No final appearances

Synopsis: Synopsis unknown

Golden Arrow

The Origin of Golden Arrow

Credits

Head Writer: Bill Parker
Pencilers: Greg Duncan
Inkers: Greg Duncan
Colourists: Bill Parker
Editors: Bill Parker

Synopsis

Cast of Characters:

Locations:

  • American Southwest

Items:

  • None

First Appearances: Golden Arrow (Roger Parsons, an adventurer); Brand Braddock (a corrupt businessman); Bronk (one of Brand's thugs); Brute Braddock (Brand's brother); Gloria Parsons (Roger's mother); Nugget Ned (a prospector); Paul Parsons (Roger's father); White Wind (Roger's stallion)
Final Appearances: Brand Braddock; Gloria Parsons (dies in flashback in this issue); Nugget Ned; Paul Parsons (dies in flashback in this issue)

Synopsis: Synopsis unknown

Spy Smasher

The Coming of Spy Smasher

Credits

Head Writer: Bill Parker
Pencilers: C.C. Beck
Inkers: C.C. Beck
Colourists: Bill Parker
Editors: Bill Parker

Synopsis

Cast of Characters:

Locations:

  • Unknown

Items:

  • Gyro-sub

First Appearances: Spy Smasher (Alan Armstrong, a secret agent); Admiral Corby (a Naval officer); Eve Corby (Admiral Corby's daughter); The Mask (a villain)
Final Appearances: No final appearances

Synopsis: Synopsis unknown

Scoop Smith

The Radium Theft of Dr. Death

Credits

Head Writer: Bill Parker
Pencilers: Greg Duncan
Inkers: Greg Duncan
Colourists: Bill Parker
Editors: Bill Parker

Synopsis

Cast of Characters:

First Appearances: Scoop Smith (a reporter); Blimp Black (his sidekick); Bruce Lane (Scoop's editor); Doctor Death (a thief); John Galt
Final Appearances: Doctor Death; John Galt

Synopsis: Synopsis unknown

Lance O'Casey

Incident at Maloana

Credits

Head Writer: Bill Parker
Pencilers: Bob Kingett
Inkers: Bob Kingett
Colourists: Bill Parker
Editors: Bill Parker

Synopsis

Cast of Characters:

Locations:

  • Unknown

Items:

  • Unknown

First Appearances: Lance O'Casey (a sailor); Monk Hogan (Lance's chimpanzee first mate); Barracuda Brent; Betty Brewster; Bentley Brewster; Skipper Jones
Final Appearances: Barracuda Brent; Betty Brewster; Bentley Brewster; Skipper Jones

Synopsis: Synopsis unknown

Dan Dare

Seals of Doom

Credits

Head Writer: Bill Parker
Pencilers: Greg Duncan
Inkers: Greg Duncan
Colourists: Bill Parker
Editors: Bill Parker

Synopsis

Cast of Characters:

  • Dan Dare
  • Carlos Peseta
  • Carol Clews
  • Portugese Pete
  • Seminole Sam

Locations:

  • Unknown

Items:

  • Unknown

First Appearances: Dan Dare; Carlos Peseta; Carol Clews; Portugese Pete; Seminole Sam
Final Appearances: Carlos Peseta; Portugese Pete; Seminole Sam

Synopsis: Synopsis unknown

Notes

  • Whiz Comics was published by Fawcett Publications. The premiere issue of the series actually begins with issue #2. The character of Captain Marvel was originally to be named Captain Thunder for the first issue of Thrill Comics. Thrill Comics would have taken the #1 slot for this series, but it was never published beyond a single ashcan preview edition.
  • Golden Arrow is currently a licensed property of DC Comics, but to date he has yet to appear in an actual DC Comics comic book.

Trivia

  • Dan Dare is not to be confused with Dan Dare, a pilot adventurer published by Eagle Comics in the 1950s.
  • Doctor Death's real name is James Kirk, but has no connection to the more infamous James Kirk of Star Trek fame.

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