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Issue Details

Issue #58
Published April 1951
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 Pete Costanza

10 page Marvel Family story "The Triple Time Plot"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Shazam; Doctor XYZ (first appearance; villain); Leonardo DaVinci
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

Half page Big Hearted Bigby story "Happy Birthday"

Genre Gags

4 page Headline Harry story "The Nobleman"

Genre humor
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

7 page Mary Marvel story "The Likeness Peril"

Characters Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Diavlo (first appearance; villain)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Harry Anderson?
Inks Harry Anderson?

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity "No. 38"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]

6 page Captain Marvel story "The Man Who Lived Two Centuries"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "Fights the Freak Fiasco"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Boris Bane (first appearance; villain); Prof. Edgewise
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder

1 page Boxcar Benny story "Big Business"

Genre Gags

2 page text story "Key To Crime"

Script John Martin
Pencils ? (illo)
Inks ? (illo)
Colors ? (Illo)
Letters typeset

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Blackness Plague"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Reginald Grey (first appearance; villain)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck?

1 page Lazy Lee story "Vacation Time"

Genre Gags