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Issue Details

Issue #74
Published August 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Wendell Crowley

Cover Details

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

8 page Marvel Family story "The Hissing Horror Ch. 1: Attack of the Missing Men"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Dexter Knox; the Hissmen (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza?
Inks Pete Costanza?

1 page Lazy Lee story "Tough Orders"

Genre Gags

4 page Headline Harry story "The Perfect Strategy"

Genre humor
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

6 page Marvel Family story "The Hissing Horror Ch. 2: Peril In the Past"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza?
Inks Pete Costanza?

2 page text story "The Sure Hand"

Pencils John Martin
Inks John Martin
Letters typeset

1 page Boxcar Benny story "The Defense Rests"

Genre Gags

Half page Hotel Guest, The story

Genre Humor

6 page Marvel Family story "The Hissing Horror Ch. 3: Battle of the Crossroads"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza?
Inks Pete Costanza?

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity