Issue Details

Issue	#42
Published	December 1949
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?

10 page Marvel Family story "The Endless Menace"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Time Master (first appearance)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks	Kurt Schaffenberger

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Enchanted Roc"

Characters	Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; the Roc (first appearance; death)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Bud Thompson?
Inks	Bud Thompson?

7 page Mary Marvel story "The Runaway Colors"

Characters	Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Jack Frost (first appearance)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Jack Binder?
Inks	Jack Binder?

2 page text story "Journey For Jerry"

Script	Rod Reed [as Walter Farmer]
Letters	typeset

4 page Headline Harry story "Western Woes"

Genre	humor
Script	Howard Boughner
Pencils	Howard Boughner
Inks	Howard Boughner

8 page Captain Marvel story "Captain Marvel Rescues Billy Batson"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sivana (villain)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	C. C. Beck