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CATALOG RECORD

Shield-Wizard Comics #13

Archie · Series began 1940 · Spring 1944

Dates

Cover date
Spring 1944
Pages
52

Editions and covers

Creators

script: Bill Vigodapencils: Bill Vigoda, Warren King, Al Camyinks: Bill Vigoda, Warren King, Al Camy

Stories

  • The Invasion · 11 pages

    The Shield and Dusty take part in a play production to convince Americans to support the war effort. In the play, the pair make their way to the underground in a small town and are advised that the Nazis are bringing in a munitions train, which the duo wish to blow up. However, an American, who believes that the Germans are not so bad, betray the crimefighters to the German commander.

  • Devils of the Deep · 9 pages

    The Shield and Dusty spot an F.B.I.-wanted spy at Coney Island and watch him boarding a Nazi submarine. They soon board the vessel but are overcome by gas, and the Shield is packed in a coffin and dumped into the sea to drown.

  • Blackmail · 2 pages

    The Shield helps a former government worker to save his son, who has been kidnapped by the Germans and forced to pay blackmail to them.

  • Merchants of Murder · 8 pages

    A parrot is being used as a spy messenger by the Nazis, and it's up to the Wizard to investigate the activities of a suspect munitions company.

  • The Little Rug That Wasn't There · 7 pages

    Roy gets a job as a salesman in a rug department in order to earn money to buy the Wizard a Christmas present and meets a mystic with a flying carpet.

  • The Vain Robot! · 10 pages

    A thinking and speaking robot escapes from his inventor and finds a Nazi training camp. It's up to the Wizard and Roy to track him down, and they find him at a circus as a side-show performer.

Characters

Joe HigginsThe ShieldDustyDustin SimmonsBlane WhitneyThe WizardRoy the Super-BoyRoy Carter

Reprinted in

Miss Liberty (1945)

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