Additional Information |
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Publication | October 16, 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every four weeks |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Uncle Sam |
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Contents | Capt. Marvel Presents (1 page) |
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Comic Story | The Alaskan Adventure (14 pages) |
Credits | Pencils:? (assistants) | Inks:? (assistants) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] |
Notes | Art credits per P. C. Hamerlinck in Alter Ego #147 (July 2017). Possible Keats credit due to him being confirmed as being on staff for the Beck-Costanza Studio at this time doing backgrounds and figures. |
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Comic Story | The Trumpet of Doom (12 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Steamboat Bill; Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain) |
Notes | A digitized picture from the Ezra Jack Keats Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi shows Keats working in a studio with Mark Swayze, C.C. Beck, and Dave Berg drawing Captain Marvel stories. The splash page and second page of this story can be seen on Keats drawing table being referenced for what looks like a paste-up drawing (see: https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_c862af24-fad0-4f42-afac-9f7de975249a/?fbclid=IwAR34MArvJzhQsQkmmbVsa7ndMYr48D09xYUDnKf6DsP2SKQTTvPHRN6wz2M, retrieved 19 March 2021). |
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Text Story | A Dead Jap Is a Good Jap! (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War |
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Publisher advertisement | Always Rings the Bell! (1 page) |
Featuring | Whiz Comics |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] |
Notes | Promo for Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series). |
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Comic Story | The World's Mightiest Mistake (8 pages) |
Synopsis | A hypnotist does his magic on Steamboat and fills him with a burning desire to become an ebony Captain Marvel! |
Credits | Inks:? (Captain Marvel art staff) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Steamboat Bill; Steamboat's girlfriend |
Notes | Art credits by Craig Delich, per Brian Cremins in Alter Ego #144 (January 2017). Possible Keats credit due to him being confirmed as being on staff for the Beck-Costanza Studio at this time doing backgrounds and figures. |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Superhero |
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Comic Story | In Mexico (16 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Steamboat Bill; Axis agents (villains) |
Notes | Art credits per Marc Swayze. |
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