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Issue Details

Issue #118
Published April 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Wendell Crowley

Cover Details

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

2 page text story "Getting His Goat"

Script Rod Reed [as Walter Farmer]
Letters typeset

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Hammer of Hate"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mongol Monster (villain; death)
Genre superhero
Pencils Joe Certa
Inks Joe Certa

5 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Lazy Genie"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Genre superhero
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Bud Thompson
Inks Bud Thompson
Notes based on Anthony Boucher's story "Snulbug" in Unknown Worlds (12/41); thanks to Martin O'Hearn for the info
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #16 (January-February 1975); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #3/1976

Half page Rubbernose Randolph filler "Drives Home His Point"

Genre Gags
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant

8 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "In the Days of Robin Hood"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Robin Hood; Merry Men; King Richard the Lionhearted; John Freeman (first appearance; Freddy's ancestor; first to bear his family name); Earl of Nottingham (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis Freddy is magically summoned into the past by his ancestor to help him rescue Robin Hood and his Merry Men from the Earl of Nottingham.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Bud Thompson
Inks Bud Thompson
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #24 (Spring 1976)

4 page Kanvasback story "The Super Stupid Salesman"

Genre sports

6 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Great Vacuum"

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

1 page Judge Smudge filler "A Long Suit"

Genre Gags
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner