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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