Whiz Comics #59
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Sivana's Twin," Ibis teams up with Dare Devil Luke, a daring pilot and racer competing in the high-stakes Acme Sports Meet, after Luke receives a cryptic threat from a master of the black arts demanding he win the $10,000 prize. Written by Otto Binder and illustrated by Marc Swayze, this 1944 adventure blends aerial thrills with supernatural intrigue, all framed by C. C. Beck’s dynamic cover art with inks by Pete Costanza.
When Captain Marvel spots an exact double of his nemesis Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana walking into Billy Batson's office, he doesn't hesitate to throw a punch—only to discover the visitor is actually Reginald Q. Dishlather, a mild-mannered jewelry store owner who looks uncannily like the mad scientist. Now mortified by the mix-up, Billy watches in horror as the real Sivana encounters Dishlather on the street and hatches a scheme to impersonate him and raid his shop. With a fortune in jewels on the line and Captain Marvel hot on the trail, this tale of mistaken identity becomes a race to stop the world's wickedest scientist from pulling off the perfect heist.
Golden Arrow rides into Little Creek to find a tribe ravaged by mysterious fever, caught between the old ways of Hophead the medicine man and the modern science of Strongspear, a young doctor trained in white man's medicine. When Hophead's followers drive Strongspear from camp, Golden Arrow steps in to uncover the truth behind the epidemic—discovering a conspiracy that reaches far beyond the tribe's troubles. It's a tale of superstition versus progress, with Golden Arrow determined to expose the real murderers behind the sickness.
Two underpaid Nazi saboteurs, Hans Hassenpfeffer and Fritz Flug, are assigned a dangerous mission to blow up a dam for the Reich—but when Spy Smasher intercepts them and they barely escape, their troubles are just beginning. Resentful of their pittance in pay and humiliated by defeat, the desperate spies turn to petty crime in America, only to cross paths with their nemesis once more in an unexpected confrontation.
Ibis teams up with the daring Dare Devil Luke, a famed flyer and racer, when Luke faces a sinister threat from the mysterious Dr. Harl Hookah, who demands he win the Acme Sports Meet at any cost. With the stakes high and dark forces at play, Ibis must navigate a dangerous gamble as he steps into a perilous agreement to protect his ally.
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Reprinted in Whiz Comics #60 (1945), Whiz Comics #[nn] (1945), Alter Ego #109 (2012)
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