''Wow Comics'' is an monthly Golden Age

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series that was published by

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from winter 1940 to August 1948. From issue #9 to #58, the book's cover features were the solo adventures of Fawcett's

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character. Other characters included

Mr. Scarlet Mr. Scarlet and Pinky the Whiz Kid are two duo fictional comic book superheroes connected to each other, and first introduced in ''Wow Comics''. The superheroes were originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. The original Mist ...

, Commando Yank and

Phantom Eagle Phantom Eagle is the name used by two fictional aviator heroes appearing in American comic books. The first character to use the name was teenaged Mickey Malone, a young aviator who appeared in the 1940s in Fawcett Comics publications depicting ...

. The title's inaugural issue was the first comic book mentioning of

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. ''Wow Comics'' later evolved into a boys' title beginning with issue #59.

Publication history

The book changed the format to a Western comic and was renamed ''Real Hero Western'' with issue #70, and ''Western Hero'' from issue #76 until the book's final issue, #112, in 1952.

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