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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published May-June 1975
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)

Cover Details - "The Celebrated Talking Frog of Blackstone Forest!"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
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 Batman advertisement "The Mummy"

Notes Hostess Twinkies ad

11 page Shazam! story "The Celebrated Talking Frog of Blackstone Forest!"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Dr. Thomas Kilowatt; Mr. Tawky-Tawny; Sunny Sparkle; Dexter Knox; Agent Raskolnikov (villain); Shazam (cameo, flashback); Prince Maxwell Phrogue
Synopsis Tawky Tawny discovers a talking frog which is really a prince from the middle ages that was transformed into a frog by an evil witch.
Genre superhero
Script Elliot S! Maggin
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner
Notes 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

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Coin-Operated Caper!"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Sivana, Jr. (villain); John V. Franklyn
Synopsis Sivana Jr. creates a coin that allows him to implant a thought into another person's mind. He uses the coin to make Freddy Freeman unable to say the magic word that transforms him into Captain Marvel Jr.
Genre superhero
Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes 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