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Ivan Kostoshovich
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Jump to navigationJump to searchYoung, poverty-stricken, recluse American composer from the "Trouble in Tin Pan Alley" story of Fawcett comic book Whiz Comics #49 (December 1943).
Billy Batson of radio station WHIZ announces a patriotic song-writing contest. This young longhair stops work on his symphony just long enough to compose a stirring melody to win the contest and rent money. Captain Marvel himself collaborates with him to come up with the lyrics.
His name is a parody of real Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).
