Issue Details

Issue	#21
Published	March 1948
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	Jack Binder?
Inks	Pete Costanza?

1 page credits "Contents Page"

9 page Marvel Family story "The Trio of Terror"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Satyr (first appearance); Hydra (first appearance); Argus (first appearance)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	C. C. Beck
Reprinted	in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-27 (1974)

Half page Judge Smudge story "Memories"

Genre	Gags
Script	Howard Boughner
Pencils	Howard Boughner
Inks	Howard Boughner

Half page Lazy Lee story "Specifically Speaking"

Genre

Gags

7 page Mary Marvel story "Tune Trouble"

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

2 page Kanvasback story "Born Athlete"

Genre

sports

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Flying Eye"

Characters	Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Sivana, Jr. (villain); Man-From-Mars (first appearance; villain); a Frankensteinian monster (first appearance; villain)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks	Kurt Schaffenberger

4 page Peewee Pete story "Easy As Taking Candy From a Baby"

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

2 page text story "The Space Race"

Characters	Eando Chesler
Script	Rod Reed [as Cy N. Sphixon]
Letters	typeset

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Science Crimes"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sivana (villain)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Pete Costanza
Inks	Pete Costanza