Shield-Wizard Comics #13 Values

Publisher: Archie, 1944

About Shield-Wizard Comics #13

Bondage / torture / "good girl" / Rising Sun cover by Bob Montana. Story art by Bill Vigoda. This was the last issue of the title.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: The Shield [Joe Higgins] (also inset); The Wizard [Blane Whitney]; The Japanese

Pencils: Harry Sahle ?

Inks: Harry Sahle ?

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: The Invasion

Characters: The Shield [Joe Higgins]; Dusty; 4-L (agent); Mr. Smith; Nazi commander (villain); the Nazis (villains, some fake deaths)

Synopsis: 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.

Pages: 11.000

Script: Bill Vigoda

Pencils: Bill Vigoda

Inks: Bill Vigoda

Reprints: Miss Liberty (Green Publishing, 1945 series) #1 (1945)

Notes: The artwork is identical to the next Shield story in this issue signed by Vigoda. Compare the special way of running and the many close up faces and rapid inking.

Title: Devils of the Deep

Characters: The Shield [Joe Higgins]; Dusty; Fritz Kessel (villain, a Nazi spy, death); un-named Nazi Kapitan (villain, death); some Nazi sailors (villains, all die)

Synopsis: 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.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Bill Vigoda (signed)

Pencils: Bill Vigoda (signed)

Inks: Bill Vigoda (signed)

Reprints: Miss Liberty (Green Publishing, 1945 series) #1 (1945)

Title: Blackmail

Characters: The Shield [Joe Higgins]; Roger Callaway (former government worker); Don Callaway (Roger's son); three Nazi agents (villains)

Synopsis: 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.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Reprints: Miss Liberty (Green Publishing, 1945 series) #1 (1945)

Title: Merchants of Murder

Characters: The Wizard [Blane Whitney]; un-named U.S. Army general; Jim (F.B.I. agent, cameo); Mr. Dorman (munitions manufacturer); Mary (villain, a parrot); fake Dorman (villain); fake Dorman's partner (villain)

Synopsis: 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.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Warren King

Inks: Warren King

Reprints: Miss Liberty (Green Publishing, 1945 series) #1 (1945)

Notes: Face close-ups with long nose are found in many signed Vigoda stories, but it also looks very much like Ed Robbins. Art credits suggested by the Who's Who. ODDITY: After throwing his cape into a wind machine to save his life, the Wizard races away to get the villains, wearing the cape, which is never seen again in the story.

Title: The Little Rug That Wasn't There

Characters: Roy; Imar the Mystic; some thugs (villains)

Synopsis: 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.

Pages: 7.000

Reprints: Miss Liberty (Green Publishing, 1945 series) #1 (1945)

Notes: Original indexer must have confused the Dusty strip with the Roy strip. Story title corrected by Dick Sabo via the GCD Error Tracker.

Title: The Vain Robot!

Characters: The Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy the Super-Boy; Westley (an inventor); Jonathon (a robot); Willy Blane (circus owner); Nazi soldiers (villains)

Synopsis: 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.

Pages: 10.000

Pencils: Al Camy [as Cam] (signed)

Inks: Al Camy [as Cam] (signed)

Reprints: Miss Liberty (Green Publishing, 1945 series) #1 (1945)

Notes: The Wizard's next appearance in Fly Man #33. Roy's next appearance in Mighty Crusaders #4.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	1	1	0	3	1	2	4	1	2	0	4	3	1	2	2	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	30
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	1	1	0	3	1	2	4	2	3	0	4	3	1	2	2	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	32

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