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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published May 1948
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?

1 page credits "Contents page"

9 page Marvel Family story "The Sivana Family Newspaper"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Sivana Family [Sivana; Sivana, Jr.; Georgia]
Synopsis Georgia murders a man.
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks Pete Costanza?

2 page Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear story "?"

Genre Gags

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Cornerstone Case"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Genre superhero
Pencils Joe Certa
Inks Joe Certa

Half page Judge Smudge story "Only Thing Wrong"

Genre Gags
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

7 page Mary Marvel story "Flying High"

Characters Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Prof. Richard (first appearance); Horace Richard (first appearance; Prof. Richard's son)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Binder?
Inks Jack Binder?

1 page Willie the Worm story "Gets In the Swim of Things"

Genre Gags

6 page Captain Kid story "Ski High"

Script Al Liederman
Pencils Al Liederman
Inks Al Liederman

2 page text story "The Smart Burglar"

Script R. R. Symes
Letters typeset

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Hammer of Thor"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; A. H. Thor (first appearance; villain; possibly a descendant of Thor); Thor's hammer (first appearance; melted down by Captain Marvel!)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza