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| Name | Captain Marvel Adventures 1 (fiche) | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 |
| Notes | The title of the issue is "64 Pages of New Captain Marvel Adventures," per the issue itself and the U. S. Copyright Office filing. It is unnumbered. The on-sale date is the Library of Congress copyright record publication date. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] |
| Pencils | C. C. Beck |
| Inks | C. C. Beck |
| Blank Page | No Title (1 page) |
| Notes | Black blank page on ifc & ibc. |
| Comic Story | Captain Marvel vs. Z / Captain Marvel / Shazam! (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Thwarted time and time again by his avowed enemy, Captain Marvel, Sivana decides to create a rival that is more than human to combat his hated foe... a foe he calls "Z", because he is the ultimate in toughness. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sterling Morris; Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain); Z (villain, introduction, a robot, death); Spike (villain) |
| Script | Manly Wade Wellman |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Briefer |
| Notes | Inking credit from Jack Kirby, via Greg Theakston. Writing credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/ . Formerly credited to Joe Simon. Wellman attempted to spell his name using the first letter in the first speech balloon of the panels from the first three pages of the story. Spells "MANLY MADE TELLMAH" |
| Comic Story | Out West / Captain Marvel / Shazam! (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy is on vacation at Rimrock and gets involved, as Captain Marvel, in a bronco riding contest. But Billy spots the owner of the Crossbone Ranch and feels he knows him, and begins an investigation that leads him directly to the owner as the leader of a large rustling operation while he poses as a victim himself of the band of rustlers. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Miss Daisy; Gino (villain, bronco rider); Bid Boy Larbozo [aka Mr. Laraaby] (villain, boss of the ranch) |
| Script | Manly Wade Wellman ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Briefer |
| Notes | Inks credit from Jack Kirby, via Greg Theakston. Simon and Kirby allegedly testified that they used scripts from Fawcett, at their portion of the Captain Marvel - Superman trial. |
| Activity | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Captain Marvel offers three different activities for readers to work on and enjoy: a connect the dot activity, activity that challenges readers to see how many words (of three letters or more) they can make out of the word "English", and a "Play Square" Planet activity in which readers are to connect a dot to the nearest dot, numbering lines that do not close a square (there are 19 in all). |
| Feature | Captain Marvel Pencil-Puzzle-Page |
| Characters | Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] |
| Activity | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Billy offers four different activities for readers to complete, including a Planet Play Square exercise of connecting nearest dots and numbering lines, a maze, and two more. |
| Feature | Billy Batson's Page of Games |
| Characters | Billy Batson |
| Notes | This activity is incorrectly located in the Archive edition. There it follows the story of Captain Marvel on Saturn when it should follow Captain Marvel's Pencil-Puzzle-Page. |
| Comic Story | The Monsters of Saturn / Captain Marvel / Shazam! (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy receives a message from Saturn over his radio device from captives that are being enslaved by monsters on the planet, asking for assistance. Captain Marvel travels by rocket ship to Saturn to take on the vicious slave drivers, allowing himself to be captured by his foes in order to get the full story about the enemy before he deals with them and prevent an invasion of the Earth. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Hargo (scientist); the Dragon Men (villains, giant lizards, all die); unnamed ruler of the Dragon Men (villain, death); Ghoppo (villain, spy among the slaves, death) |
| Script | Manly Wade Wellman ? Joe Simon ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Briefer |
| First Line | Captain Marvel has been recognized as the mightiest living creature on this world, and on at least one other. It was like this-- |
| Notes | Inks credit from Jack Kirby, via Greg Theakston. Simon and Kirby allegedly testified that they used scripts from Fawcett, at their portion of the Captain Marvel - Superman trial. Credits in Shazam! The Greatest Stories Ever Told credits the script to Joe Simon. This story does not feature a titled masthead. Thor Precursor. Shazam referred to as “Thunder God” and fights Aliens from Saturn. This motif used when Kirby co-created Thor in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #83 with Thunder God fighting Aliens from Saturn as per Comic Book Historians article researched by Alex Grand. |
| Comic Story | Battles the Vampire / Captain Marvel / Shazam! (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy is given an assignment to interview a Doctor Deever, who has created a process to restore the dead to life. The doctor takes Billy to a cemetery and succeeds in raising a vampire back to life, losing his own in the process. Captain Marvel must figure out a way to defeat his unholy foe before more people become its victims, and, as Billy, checks out a book to aid him in his cause: "The Vampire Legend" by H. P. Lovecraft. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sterling Morris; Doctor Deever (death); Bram Thirla (villain, introduction, a vampire, death); group of unnamed vampires (villain, introduction for all, all die) |
| Script | Manly Wade Wellman ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Briefer |
| Notes | Inker credit from Jack Kirby, via Greg Theakston. Simon and Kirby allegedly testified that they used scripts from Fawcett, at their portion of the Captain Marvel - Superman trial. |
| Blank Page | No Title (1 page) |
| Notes | Black blank page on ifc & ibc. |
| Illustration | Capt. Marvel / Captain Marvel / Shazam! (1 page) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Jack Kirby |
| Notes | On back cover of comic. |
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