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| Why did they give it a 8 rating. If you don't know golden age comics don't rate it. It is one great book! |
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| Publication | January 1, 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every three weeks |
| Notes | Artist revision from C.C. Beck by Craig Delich 2011-28-11 to Marc Swayze per Swyaze's column in Alter-Ego #19 verifying he did the cover. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Santa Claus |
| Notes | Artist revision from C.C. Beck by Craig Delich 2011-28-11 to Marc Swayze per Swyaze's column in Alter-Ego #19 verifying he did the cover. |
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| Contents | Contents Page (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Phantom of the Department Store (16 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel; Steamboat; The Phantom [Dunkel] |
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| Comic Story | The Training of Mary Marvel (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | An eminent professor is made a dupe by a phony scientist/explorer named Greaseley, who claims to have brought live native creatures back from the planet Venus, and together, Mary & Billy [as the Marvels] put a stop to this scam. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson] |
| Notes | Some reprint information and synopsis added by Craig Delich (Jan. 14, 2007).
Mary Marvel next appears in Wow Comics #9.
P. C. Hamerlinck, in Alter Ego #147 (July 2017), asserts that Swayze did the entire art job on this story. So reference to Swayze only doing the art on the Mary Marvel figures only removed. |
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| Comic Story | His Achilles Heel (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel; Blitzenwitz [a Hitler double, introduction] |
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| Text Story | The Wizard's Mark (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | The Tire Thief (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Captain Kid |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On the bottom of a house-ad page. |
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| Comic Story | The Ego Exchanger (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | In a diverting mind-swap ("ego changer") between Billy/Captain Marvel and Steamboat, whenever Steamboat says the magic word, Billy changes into the person of Marvel, but with the mind of Steamboat! |
| Credits | Pencils: shop staff | Inks: shop staff |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Steamboat Bill |
| Notes | Art credit revisions by Craig Delich, per P.C. Hamerlinck in Alter Ego #145 (March 2017). |
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| Featuring | Comix Cards |
| Content | Genre: Superhero; Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Ibis the Invincible |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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