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Issue Details

Issue #54
Published December 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Wendell Crowley

Cover Details

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Genre superhero
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza

10 page Marvel Family story "The Menace of the Rings Around Earth"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

Half page Lazy Lee story "Happy Days"

Genre Gags

2 page text story "Bear Trap Blues"

Pencils Dick Kraus
Inks Dick Kraus
Letters typeset

7 page Mary Marvel story "Battles The Predatory Plants"

Characters Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Jack Joddy and his plant-thieves (first appearance; villains)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Radioactive Air"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger?
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger?

1 page Boxcar Benny story "Nice Things To Know"

Genre Gags

4 page Headline Harry story "Ride 'Em, Cowboy"

Genre humor
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

1 page Tightwad Tad story "A Sure Thing"

Genre Gags

8 page Captain Marvel story "Sivana's Marvel Disintegrator"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sivana (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza?
Inks Pete Costanza