Whiz Comics was a monthly ongoing comic book anthology

Comics anthology

Comics anthologies collect works in the medium of comics that are too short for standalone publication.- U.S. :- UK :British comics have a long tradition publishing comics anthologies, often weekly...

 series, which was published by Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics, a division of Fawcett Publications, was one of several successful comic book publishers during the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s...

 from February 1940 with issue #2 and stopping at issue #155 in June 1953, best known for introducing Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel (DC Comics)

Captain Marvel is a fictional comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. Created in 1939 by artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker, the character first appeared in Whiz Comics #2...

. The first issue published of Whiz Comics was issue #2. As explained in the 2007 edition of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide

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(pp 592–593), Fawcett created two black-and-white ashcan #1 issues to solicit advertisers and to secure the copyrights to the material. The two copies were identical but carried different titles: Flash Comics and Thrill Comics; the Captain Marvel character was called Captain Thunder in a near-identical story. When Fawcett went to press with the magazine, the first issue was retitled as Whiz Comics #2, a name inspired by the company's bawdy humor magazine, Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. The cover art for the first issue showed Captain Marvel throwing a vehicle at a wall and was inspired by the cover of Action Comics

Action Comics

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No. 1, which shows Superman lifting a car.

It contained the following features depicting adventures of various superhero

Superhero

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 characters:

• Captain Marvel
  Captain Marvel (DC Comics)
  Captain Marvel is a fictional comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. Created in 1939 by artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker, the character first appeared in Whiz Comics #2...
  
  
• Ibis the Invincible
  Ibis the Invincible
  Ibis the Invincible is a fictional character, a comic book superhero originally published by Fawcett Comics in the 1940s and then by DC Comics beginning in the 1970s. Like many magician superheroes introduced in the Golden Age of Comics, Ibis owes much to the popular comic strip character Mandrake...
  
  
• Spy Smasher
  Spy Smasher
  Spy Smasher is the name of two fictional characters appearing in comics published by DC Comics. The first is a superhero that was formerly owned and published by Fawcett Comics...
  
  
• Golden Arrow
• Dan Dare
  Dan Dare (Fawcett Comics)
  Dan Dare is a fictional character who had his own strip in Fawcett Comics' Whiz Comics. A skilled detective and crime fighter, Dare's adventures appeared in Whiz Comics during the title's earliest years....
  
  
• Lance O'Casey
  Lance O'Casey
  Lance O'Casey is a fictional character who had his own strip in Fawcett Comics' Whiz Comics. The stories were popular backup stories to the book's main attractions of Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher.-Character history:...
  
  
• Scoop Smith
  Scoop Smith
  Scoop Smith is a fictional character who had his own strip in Fawcett Comics' Whiz Comics. A crime-fighting news reporter, Smith's adventures appeared in Whiz Comics during the title's earliest years.-References:*...