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Issue Details

Issue #15
Published November-December 1974
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 100
Editing Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (assistant editor)
Notes Theme: Scientists and inventors.

Cover Details

Characters Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman] (inset); Mary Marvel [Mary Batson] (inset)]; Mr. Tawky-Tawny (inset); Lex Luthor; Mr. Mind; Superman; Dr. Sivana (inset); Zotan (inset)
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [August 2007]
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Shazam (DC, 2007 series) #1

1 page Shazam! foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Table of Contents"

Characters Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman] (on a poster); Mary Marvel [Mary Batson] (on a poster)]
Genre superhero

12 page Shazam! story "Captain Marvel Meets... Lex Luthor!?!"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mr. Mind (villain); Lex Luthor (villain); Superman (cameo); Mr. Tawky-Tawny (cameo)
Synopsis Luthor builds a magic accumulator to use against Superman but it accidentally transports Luthor to Captain Marvel's universe. Luthor teams with Mr. Mind to try to destroy Captain Marvel by locking Billy Batson in a water tank with a hammerhead shark.
Genre superhero
Script Denny O'Neil
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Tex Blaisdell
Notes Story reveals that Lex Luthor and Superman live in a different universe than the Marvel Family. Credits for script and pencils confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics [May 2008]. The book credits Blaisdell with inks for this story while the editorial records credit them to Oksner.
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Shazam (DC, 2007 series) #1

2 page Shazam! filler "Shazam's Scientists and Inventors!"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sivana Family [Dr. Sivana; Sivana, Jr.; Georgia]; Mr. Mind; Dr. Thomas Kilowatt; Doc Quartz; Dexter Knox; King Kull; Professor Edgewise
Genre superhero
Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils various
Inks various

7 page Mary Marvel story "Mary Marvel Meets The Chameleon Girl!"

Characters Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Lucy Todd
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Binder ?
Inks Jack Binder ?
Reprinted from Marvel Family, The (Fawcett, 1945 series) #47 (May 1950)

8 page Shazam! story "Sivana's Good Inventions"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Dr. Sivana (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza
Reprinted from Marvel Family, The (Fawcett, 1945 series) #50 (August 1950)

2 page Shazam! filler "A Tour of American Cities with Captain Marvel!"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre superhero
Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils various
Inks various

16 page Marvel Family story "The Marvel Family Battles the King of All Time"

Characters Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]]; Mrs. Wagner; Zotan (villain); Red O'Reilly; Shazam
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes Chapter One: "The Conqueror of All Earth" (6 pages); Chapter Two: "The Trap of No Escape" (6 pages); Chapter Three: "All History Enslaved" (6 pages)
Reprinted from Marvel Family, The (Fawcett, 1945 series) #88 (October 1953)

1 page Legends of Shazam! text article "2--Hercules"

Characters Hercules
Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Letters typeset

8 page Shazam! story "Shazam! and the Incredible Calculator"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sterling Morris; Professor Smott; Professor Sneeyer
Genre superhero
Script William Woolfolk
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks Pete Costanza
Reprinted from Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett, 1941 series) #53 (February 1, 1946)

6 page Shazam! story "Mr. Tawny's Bouncing Shoes"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mr. Tawky-Tawny
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Reprinted from Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett, 1941 series) #134 (July 1952)

10 page Shazam! story "The Day Civilization Went Backwards"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Professor Swope (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza
Reprinted from Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett, 1941 series) #115 (December 1950)

8 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Man in the Paper Armor!"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Jim Bellows; Professor Edgewise; "Rip-Off" Riggs
Synopsis When "Rip-Off" Riggs steals Professor Edgewise's formula that turns newspaper into something harder than steel he goes on a crime spree that can only be stopped by Captain Marvel Jr.
Genre superhero
Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes This story literally came to its writer in a dream! Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics [May 2008].
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Shazam (DC, 2007 series) #1

1 page Shazamail! letters page

Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Letters typeset