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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published March 1950
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 C. C. Beck

10 page Marvel Family story "The Hoax City"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

4 page Headline Harry story "The Big Scoop"

Genre humor
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

7 page Mary Marvel story "The World's Wealthiest Woman"

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

1 page Lazy Lee story "Campus Character"

Genre Gags

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Valley of Fear"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Genre superhero

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

Half page Boxcar Benny story "Spring Fever"

Genre Gags

2 page text story "Guns and a Ghost"

Script Rod Reed [as Clement Good]
Pencils Rod Reed [as Clement Good]
Inks Rod Reed (as Clement Good)
Letters typeset

4 page Captain Kid story "The Toothache"

Script Al Liederman
Pencils Al Liederman
Inks Al Liederman

8 page Captain Marvel story "Captain Marvel Discovers the Wooden Age"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck

1 page Rubbernose Randolph story "Fiery Type"

Genre Gags
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant