Issue Details

Issue	#17
Published	November 1947
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Wendell Crowley

Cover Details

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Pete Costanza ?
Inks	Pete Costanza ?

1 page credits "Contents Page"

9 page Marvel Family story "The Marvel Family Curse"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; William Batson (first appearance; ancestor of Billy Batson; flashback)
Genre	superhero
Script	William Woolfolk
Pencils	Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks	Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes	writer credit via Martin O'Hearn
Reprinted	in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-35

Half page Lazy Lee story "Ringing In His Head"

Genre

Gags

Half page Judge Smudge story "Business Man"

Genre	Gags
Script	Howard Boughner
Pencils	Howard Boughner
Inks	Howard Boughner

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "Freddy Freeman Plays a Part"

Characters	Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Legs Spade (first appearance; villain)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks	Kurt Schaffenberger

2 page Snortville Sneeze story

Genre

humor

7 page Mary Marvel story "The Tornado Man"

Characters	Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Jack Binder ?
Inks	Jack Binder ?

2 page text story "No Place For Heroes"

Script	R. C. Kraus
Letters	typeset

4 page Peewee Pete story "Sunken Hopes"

9 page Captain Marvel story "The Future Car"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Pete Costanza
Inks	Pete Costanza