Issue Details

Issue	#139
Published	December 1952
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Wendell Crowley

Cover Details

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

7 page Captain Marvel story "The Red Crusher"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; The Red Crusher (first appearance)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	C. C. Beck

Half page Tightwad Tad story "Exchanges Words"

Genre

Gags

Half page Saxton the Saxophonist story

Genre

Gags

2 page Jon Jarl text story "The Hawkmen"

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

4 page Captain Kid story "Jinx Day"

Pencils	Al Liederman?
Inks	Al Liederman?

6 page Captain Marvel story "Spider's Doom"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Dexter Knox
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	C. C. Beck

4 page Windy story "The Fishing Dog"

Genre	Gags
Script	Howard Boughner
Pencils	Howard Boughner
Inks	Howard Boughner

6 page Captain Marvel story "Captain Marvel Fights Niatpac Levram!"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Wizzo the Wizard (first appearance); Niatpac Levram (first appearance; a mirror-image Captain Marvel)
Synopsis	Wizzo uses magic to animate Captain Marvel's mirror image in an attempt to become a master magician.
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	C. C. Beck
Reprinted	in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #2 (April 1973); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #4/1974