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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published July 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 C. C. Beck?
Inks Pete Costanza?

1 page credits "Contents page"

9 page Marvel Family story "The Marvel Family On Trial"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Number One [Judge Brown] (first appearance; villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

Half page Lazy Lee story "Rests His Case"

Genre Gags

Half page Judge Smudge story "Nothing But the Truth"

Genre Gags
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "Captain Marvel, Jr. Fights the Champ"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Genre superhero
Script Joe Millard
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #5 (September 1973); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #3/1974

Half page Judge Smudge story "Self Opinion"

Genre Gags
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

Half page Lazy Lee story "Appreciation"

Genre Gags

7 page Mary Marvel story "The Case of the Sentimental Crook"

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

4 page Peewee Pete story "The Big Shot"

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

2 page text story "Earthquake Proof"

Script Joseph J. Millard
Letters typeset

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Discontents"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Zunga Zill and the Zekkians (first appearance; villains); Val Vorro and the Discontents
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck