Issue Details

Issue	#87
Published	January 1948
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Virginia Provisiero

Cover Details - "The Root of Evil!"

Characters	Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Bud Thompson
Inks	Bud Thompson

1 page Captain Marvel, Jr. foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "In This Issue"

Characters	Captain Marvel, Jr.
Genre	Superhero

9 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Root of Evil!"

Characters	Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Daniel Zarno (first appearance)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Bud Thompson
Inks	Bud Thompson

Half page Trader Tom filler "E-z Does it!"

Genre

Gag

Half page Lumber Jack filler "Doesn't Get to the Top"

Genre

Gag

1 page Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll advertisement "Saves the School Party"

Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	Pete Costanza
Notes	Ad in sequential art form.

7 page Nyoka the Jungle Girl story "The Lion Hunters' Club!!"

Genre

jungle

4 page Lion-Hearted Leo the Animal Trainer story "Monkey Business"

Genre

humor

6 page Bulletman story "The Juvenile Delinquents"

Characters	Bulletman [Jim Barr]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Charles Tomsey
Inks	Charles Tomsey

Half page text article "Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc."

Letters

typeset

2 page Vacuum Bloobstutter text story "Bloobstutter and the Burglars"

Characters	Vacuum Bloobstutter
Script	Rod Reed
Pencils	? (illustration)
Inks	? (illustration)
Letters	typeset

4 page Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb story "The Short Voyage"

Genre

humor

7 page Radar story "The Invaders from Space!!"

Characters	Radar
Genre	spy
Pencils	Ken Battefield
Inks	Ken Battefield?

Half page filler "Comix Cards"

Characters

Tom Mix

Half page Winchester Roller Skates advertisement "Wings" Winchester Saves a Puppy

Notes

Ad in sequential art form.

Half page Smith Brothers Cough Drops advertisement "Junior Jim"

Script	? [as S. B. Black]
Pencils	? [as S. B. Black]
Inks	? [as S. B. Black]
Notes	Ad in sequential art form.

1 page Electric Game Co., Inc. advertisement "New! Jim Prentice, Amazing, Exciting, 1948 Electric Football"

Notes

Ad in sequential art form.