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Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) 18

  • Issue #18
    Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) 18
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #21-31C4038-018
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Stories and art by Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk, Howard Boughner, and Kurt Schaffenberger. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvels help a farmer whose land has been taken over by squatters, only to discover these are interstellar squatters from another world. When a young matador falls for a vacationing Mary Batson, she tries to figure out how to help him in the bullfight ring. OG Captain Marvel flies into space to help scientists survive on the world's first space station. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie's Counter-Spook, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. Terrific cover, possibly by Pete Costanza. The Squatters From Space; Judge Smudge; Lazy Lee; Peewee Pete; Captain Marvel, Jr.: Crime Without Reason; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: The Boy Matador; On the Job; Clarinet Clue; Captain Marvel: Danger at the Space Station. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.