What is "whizzer"

Whizzer is the name of several fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first character debuted during the Golden Age in USA Comics #1 (Aug. 1941), and was reintroduced in Giant-Size Avengers #1 (Aug. 1974). A second villainous version debuts during the Silver Age in The Avengers #69 (Oct. 1969), and a second heroic version debuting in The Avengers #85 (Feb. 1971).

Whizzer is an Anton Schwarzkopf Speedracer roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. It was one of two identical roller coasters built for the Marriott Corporation for each of their “Great America” parks at their debut in 1976, with an identical version of the Whizzer at California's Great America. Marriott continued to operate both parks until selling them in 1984. Manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf of Germany, the two rides were the last “Speedracer” models ever built. The California Whizzer was dismantled in 1988 while the Illinois Whizzer remains in operation, as one of only two Speedracers still in existence worldwide (the other operating as Broca (formerly known as Zambezi Zinger) at Parque Nacional Del Café in Montenegro, Colombia).

Whizzer bicycle engines are a line of bicycle engines that were produced in the United States from 1939 to 1965. They were commonly sold as kits to be assembled and attached to a consumer's bicycle thus creating a motorized bicycle. Whizzer U.S.A. re-appeared in 1997 to sell an improved version, pre-assembled on an old Schwinn-style bicycle frame.

Whizzer may refer to:

Fictional characters:

• Whizzer (comics), several characters in Marvel Comics publications:
  • Speed Demon (Marvel Comics), formerly known as the Whizzer
  • Whizzer (Robert Frank), a superhero
  • a member of Squadron Supreme
• Whizzer Brown, from the 1992 Broadway musical Falsettos
• "Whizzer" Deaver, in the American TV series ALF

As a nickname:

• Byron White (1917-2002), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and football player
• Wilford White (1928-2013), American National Football League player

Other uses:

• one part of Whizzer and Chips, a British comic
• Whizzer (motorcycles), a line of bicycle engines produced in the United States from 1939 to 1965 and revived in 1997
• Hamilton Whizzers, a hockey team
• Watson's "Whizzers", a group of pilots, engineers and maintenance men assigned by the United States Army Air Forces to capture and evaluate German aeronautical technology during and after World War II
• An overhook, a wrestling hold
• Whizzer (roller coaster), two identical roller coasters at California's Great America (now defunct) and Six Flags Great America

The Whizzer is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared during the period during the 1930s and 1940s that fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books.