Issue Details

Issue	#79
Published	December 1947
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Wendell Crowley

Cover Details - "The World's Worst Actor!"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	C. C. Beck

1 page credits "Contents page"

9 page Captain Marvel story "The Talking Tiger"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Tawky Tawny (first appearance)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	C. C. Beck
Reprinted	in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #8 (December 1973); in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn (1977); in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #499 (May 1983)

Captain Marvel story "The World's Worst Actor"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Pete Costanza
Inks	Pete Costanza
Notes	7

7 page Captain Marvel story "Minerva's True Love"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Aunt Minerva (villain)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Pete Costanza
Inks	Pete Costanza

4 page Captain Kid story "Candidate For Chaos"

Script	Al Liederman
Pencils	Al Liederman
Inks	Al Liederman

2 page Jon Jarl text story "Rocket Race"

Characters	Jon Jarl
Genre	science fiction
Script	Otto Binder [as Eando Binder]
Letters	typeset

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Ancient Crime"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Shazam; Professor Jenks
Synopsis	Captain Marvel travels to ancient Egypt to discover if Shazam was a thief in the past.
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Pete Costanza
Inks	Pete Costanza
Reprinted	in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #13 (July-August 1974); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #4/1975