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Issue Details

Issue #79
Published December 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Wendell Crowley

Cover Details - "The World's Worst Actor!"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck

1 page credits "Contents page"

9 page Captain Marvel story "The Talking Tiger"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Tawky Tawny (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #8 (December 1973); in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn (1977); in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #499 (May 1983)

Captain Marvel story "The World's Worst Actor"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre superhero
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza
Notes 7

7 page Captain Marvel story "Minerva's True Love"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Aunt Minerva (villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza

4 page Captain Kid story "Candidate For Chaos"

Script Al Liederman
Pencils Al Liederman
Inks Al Liederman

2 page Jon Jarl text story "Rocket Race"

Characters Jon Jarl
Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder [as Eando Binder]
Letters typeset

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Ancient Crime"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Shazam; Professor Jenks
Synopsis Captain Marvel travels to ancient Egypt to discover if Shazam was a thief in the past.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #13 (July-August 1974); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #4/1975