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Issue Details

Issue #125
Published October 1951
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Wendell Crowley

Cover Details

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

9 page Captain Marvel story "The Return of the Ancient Villain"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; King Kull (first appearance; origin; villain)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks Pete Costanza?
Reprinted in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn (1977)

1 page Tightwad Tad story "Some Choke"

Genre Gags

Half page Dopey Danny Dee story "Extinguished Character"

Genre Gags
Script George Marko
Pencils George Marko
Inks George Marko

2 page Jon Jarl text story "The Ice World"

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

6 page Captain Marvel story "The Dilemma of the Double Identity"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sivana (villain); Prof. Jonathan Swope (first appearance; Sivana's double)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck

4 page Captain Kid story "The Self-Made Hero"

Pencils Al Liederman?
Inks Al Liederman?

6 page Captain Marvel story "The Mechanical Man Mystery"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Timmy Tinkle (first appearance; a robot)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck

Half page Clothes Conscious Clara story

Genre Gags