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Issue Details

Issue #50
Published August 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Wendell Crowley

Cover Details

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes Wendell Crowley

10 page Marvel Family story "The Theft of Speech"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Prof. Gilbert Thorne (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes next appearance of Prof. Thorne in Shazam! #16

4 page Headline Harry story "The Interview"

Genre humor
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

7 page Mary Marvel story "The Melody of Crime"

Characters Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Trublins"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

2 page text story "The Roller Robber"

Script Rod Reed [as Clement Good]
Letters typeset

4 page Tick and Tack story

Genre Humor

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger?
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger?

8 page Captain Marvel story "Sivana's Good Inventions"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sivana (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #15 (November-December 1974); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #4/1975

Half page Thaddeus the Thespian story

Genre Gags