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