Issue Details

Issue	#56
Published	February 1951
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
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?

7 page Marvel Family story "The World's Mightiest Project Ch. 1: The Amazing Underground Secret"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; King Klaggor (first appearance)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	C. C. Beck
Reprinted	in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #23 (Winter 1976)

4 page Headline Harry story "The New News"

Genre	humor
Script	Howard Boughner
Pencils	Howard Boughner
Inks	Howard Boughner

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

Half page Economic-Minded Ed story

Genre

Gags

2 page text story "The Corpse Came Back"

Script	Leo R. Tanner
Letters	typeset

6 page Marvel Family story "The World's Mightiest Project Ch. 2: Building a World"

Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	C. C. Beck
Reprinted	in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #23 (Winter 1976)

5 page Marvel Family story "The World's Mightiest Project Ch. 3: Peril Strikes the New Earth"

Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	C. C. Beck
Reprinted	in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #23 (Winter 1976)

4 page Dusty story "The Changing Opinion"

Half page Beulah the Bride story

Genre

Gags

1 page Lazy Lee story "Mind Over Mattress"

Genre

Gags