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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published June 1973
Frequency monthly (with the exception of Mar., May, Aug., and Nov.)
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (assistant editor)

Cover Details

Characters Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]]
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [August 2007]
Reprinted in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #3/1974; in Showcase Presents Shazam (DC, 2007 series) #1

8 page Shazam! story "A Switch in Time"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Shazam; Shagg Nasté (villain); Sterling Morris; Captain Marvel, Jr. [as Freddy Freeman] (cameo)
Synopsis Shagg Nasté wants Sterling Morris to give him a show on his station. When he doesn't get the show he threatens Morris and turns Freddy Freeman to stone before he is stopped by Shazam.
Genre superhero
Script Denny O'Neil
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Letters C. C. Beck
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics [May 2008].
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Shazam (DC, 2007 series) #1

8 page Shazam! story "The Wizard of Phonograph Hill"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Dr. Thomas Kilowatt; Sterling Morris; Yuri; Raskolnikov; Cecil
Synopsis When Dr. Kilowatt announces his new invention, he and Billy are captured by different sets of foreign spies.
Genre superhero
Script Elliot S! Maggin
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Letters C. C. Beck
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics [May 2008].
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Shazam (DC, 2007 series) #1

7 page Marvel Family story "The Witches' Tale"

Characters Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]]; The Witches [Oswena (villain); Mirandy (villain); unnamed witch (villain); Elviry [aka Ellie Hawkins]]
Synopsis The Witches try to track down their fourth witch, Elviry, who is living in the city under the name Ellie Hawkins.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza
Reprinted from Marvel Family, The (Fawcett, 1945 series) #4 (September 1946)

Half page Shazamail Box letters page

Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Letters typeset