Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) comic books 1949-1951

Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, Jack Binder, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family investigates when a vast hunger sweeps over the people of the world, threatening starvation and the collapse of civilization. On a lighter note, Captain Marvel, Jr. battles The Squirrel, a dude in a squirrel suit who bops people with his gigantic tail. So, a little something for everyone in this ish. Mary Marvel briefly loses her powers. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Great Hunger; Mary Marvel Becomes the Worlds Saddest Girl; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Headline Harry; Digby the Dentist; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Capt. Marvel Jr. and the Nutty Squirrel; The Pies the Limit; Water Thief; Captain Marvel: The Flame Fiend. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, Frank Bolle, Kurt Schaffenberger, Jack Binder, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When a businessman is threatened with a hostile takeover, The Marvel Family offers to help him run his business, but that's not as easy as it sounds. After Freckles is kidnapped by gangsters, Mary Marvel disguises herself as a boy and joins the gang to find her, riding on the running boards of an old car at high speeds. Springfoot the Clown performs to inspire disabled children, having an artificial leg himself, but when he's abducted by crooks, Captain Marvel, Jr. wonders why the clown has turned to crime. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Marvel Family Goes Into Business; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Headline Harry: Below Sea Level; Freshman Freddy; Tightwad Tad; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: The Trap; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Clown of Crime; The Magic Maker; Death Stalks the Hunters; Captain Marvel: The Three Dooms. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk, Al Liederman, Kurt Schaffenberger, Jack Binder, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family tries to help out a hermit family...but they don't want to be helped, and just ask to be left alone, like hermits do. Mary Marvel tries to secretly help when her family butler Jives must impersonate a jockey to smoke out a gang of crooks. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Hermit Family; The Haunted House; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Headline Harry: The Haunted House; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: Jives Becomes a Jockey; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Sleeping People; Captain Kid: No Tanks; Death on Deck; Captain Marvel: The Fate of the Time Capsule. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, Jack Binder, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. Sivana manages to shrink himself down to the size of an insect, but somehow he's even more dangerous. Mary Marvel has a bad day when the two most unlikely villains team up: Georgia Sivana and the Hen. A man tries to goad his super-strong son into fighting Captain Marvel Jr., but all the kid wants to do is read and study, in a story with its narrative captions in rhyme. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Fun cover may be the work of C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Sivanas Miniature Menace; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Cry of Coward; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Headline Harry: Behind the Eight Ball; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: The Crime Bubbles; Protection; Captain Marvel: The Duel of Inventions. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bill Ward, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family is helping clear land for a turnpike to meet America's increasing traffic demand, when suddenly the giant machines begin attacking, Maximum Overdrive-style. Captain Marvel trains another Captain Marvel, an android named Silicon Man who has all of his powers - what could go wrong? Captain Marvel, Jr. tries to keep crooked insurance agent from profiting off the Fountain of Age (a different "Fountain of Age" than the one in the Captain Marvel, Jr. adventure in Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) #74.) Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Battle of the Berserk Machines; The Hunt; Mary Marvel Visits Underland; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Fearsome Fountain of Age; Cold Facts; Mistaken Vigil; Captain Marvel Trains Another Captain Marvel. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, C. C. Beck, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. In an issue-length adventure, living fireballs from beyond Infinity attack the Solar System, starting with the outer planets. The Marvel Family becomes Earth's last line of defense against a fiery doom from space. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads. The Invaders From Infinity; Strange Intruder; Headline Harry: Stuck on the Stock Market; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family tries to prevent a machine (that looks like a giant red pin) from rearranging the Earth's continents. Insomniac Wideawake Willy steals Dr. Zandmann's supply of "sleep sand" and soon the entire city is asleep, except Mary Marvel. Captain Marvel, Jr. battles evil hypnotist Count Peril Ize, whose spiral gaze provides the comic-book page with its own special effect ("Rotate the magazine and watch Mr. Ize's eyes whirl hypnotically!"). Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads. The Earth Changer; Paper, Mister?; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Man With the Whirling Eyes; Lazy Lee; Headline Harry; Mary Marvel: The Sinister Sleep; The Luggage Mystery; Captain Marvel Battles the World's Greatest Lies; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. Sivana's latest invention eliminates everyone's instinctual responses, and The Marvel Family must prevent a plague of accidental suicides. Crooks fleeing Mary Marvel seek refuge in a Moreau-like compound of genetically altered animals. When a bodybuilder goes mad with his own power, Captain Marvel, Jr. must prevent this Charles Atlas ad-gone-wrong from destroying the city. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade, and a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie to the Rescue, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. The Extinct Instincts; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Mad Muscle Man; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; Headline Harry: Music Time; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: The Science Wonderland; The Tornado; Captain Marvel Battles the Tycoon of Darkness. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by C. C. Beck. The Marvel Family Smashes the Legend of Atlantis, script by Otto Binder, art by Kurt Schaffenberger; The Marvel Family proves Atlantis was a myth, and is really Australia--which is surprising, since Cap, Jr. visited Atlantis in issue #10. Rubbernose Randolph humor page by Art Helfant. The Curse of the Tomb starring Captain Marvel [Billy Batson], Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman], and Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]. The Payoff humor page by Judge Smudge, script and art by Howard Boughner. The Woman of a Thousand Faces starring Mary Marvel, script by Otto Binder. How To Crack Open A Soft-Boiled Egg--Culture Corner humor half-page by Basil Wolverton. Biggest Loafer In Town humor half-page by Lazy Lee. Race With Death text story. Air Minded starring Headline Harry, script and art by Howard Boughner. The Mightiest Meteor Shower starring Captain Marvel and Sivana, script by Otto Binder, pencils by C. C. Beck, inks by Pete Costanza. Value of Friendship humor page starring Boxcar Benny. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Howard Boughner and others. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. In an issue-length adventure, visitors to a memorial statue discuss The Marvel Family's final adventure, helping a philanthropist build an exhibit that is supposed to unite the world in peace. But his dark secret spells doom for The Marvel Family, in a tale that (in retrospect) seems to echo a pivotal scene in Alan Moore's Marvelman/ Miracleman saga. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, a puzzle page, and a PSA for War Bonds featuring the original Captain Marvel (Shazam). The Seven Wonders of the Modern World; Headline Harry: The Starry Night; The Artist Fights Again; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Toothache Tex. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, Pete Costanza, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family soars into action when someone starts stealing the world's oxygen. Billy Batson can't help Quentin Vandecker with the villainous sailor Captain Bryce, but maybe Captain Marvel can. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Great Oxygen Theft; Bluster and Fluster: Birthday Blues; Mary Marvel: The Playwright Plot; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Newspaper War; Murder Downstairs; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Hoghead Harry; Headline Harry: The Musical Interlude; Captain Marvel Sails Before the Mast; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Time Master's new invention allows him to "Groundhog Day" the world, and he plans to use it to create the Perfect Crime. Jack Frost gets bored with only making the colors change on autumn leaves, so he decides to change all sorts of colors during summer, unless Mary Marvel can convince him otherwise. Captured by gangsters and gagged, Billy Batson manages to Scherezade his captors by writing them a Captain Marvel story that takes their attention until he can escape. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Endless Menace; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Enchanted Roc; Mary Marvel: The Runaway Colors; Journey for Jerry; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Dopey Danny Dee; Headline Harry: Western Woes; Captain Marvel Rescues Billy Batson; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Tightwad Tad. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Sheldon Moldoff, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family investigates when runaway grass threatens to cover the entire city, a la "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill." Captain Marvel, Jr. wants to know why all of Freddy Freeman's newspapers are blank, and uncovers a villain with a new method of suppressing the press. After a hurricane flattens a town, an engineer's "speed pills" allow the townsfolk to rebuild at superhuman speeds, but Captain Marvel's not sure that's a good idea in the long run. A vintage Lionel Trains ad. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Another terrific cover that may the work of CC Beck. The March of the Grass; Thirteen Suspects; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The News Blackout; Mary Marvel: The Undersea Farm; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Horse Racing Hi-Jenks; Captain Marvel: The Great Speed-Up. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, a strange epidemic of rust cripples the city. The Marvel Family investigates and soon realizes the cause is spores from Mars, released deliberately on Earth. The Rust That Menaced the World, Chapter 1: The Spores of Mars; Headline Harry: The Hunters Horror; Unarmed; Chapter 2: Death of a City; Huck and Hack: Fooey Fishermen; Chapter 3: The Last Hope of Mankind; Banger the Bank Clerk; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Al Liederman, Art Helfant, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family investigates when developer John Stoneheart's New City springs up almost overnight, and they soon discover it's made of paper and cardboard. To earn a donation for an orphanage, Mary Marvel agrees to work as a maid for a wealthy woman for one day. Captain Marvel, Jr. tries to figure out why the trees, objects and even buildings in Friendly Valley have turned against the residents. The Hoax City; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Big Scoop; Mary Marvel: The Worlds Wealthiest Woman; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Valley of Fear; Guns and a Ghost; The Toothache; Captain Marvel Discovers the Wooden Age; Rubbernose Randolph. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Al Liederman, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. Sivana's latest invention causes all of civilization to vanish, except for The Marvel Family, who get a glimpse of a future where Sivana is considered the greatest mind of all time. Searching for a lost scientist, Mary Marvel visits a land where machines are the only life and robots are the dominant life form. Captain Marvel, Jr. wants to know why all whales have vanished from the world's oceans, and what the renegade whaler known as the Whale Master might have to do with it. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Skating on Thin Ice, with art by Bill Schreiber. The Day Civilization Vanished; Captain Kid: Handle With Care; Mary Marvel: The Adventure in Robot Paradise; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Mystery of the Vanishing Whales; Gus the Guide; The Mysterious Murder; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Lion Crazy; Captain Marvel: The People Who Turned to Stone. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Otto Binder, Sheldon Moldoff, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family discovers that Earth's natural resources are being depleted by saucer aliens, in a story with an ecological bent (long before that was a popular concept). Mary Todd, dissatisfied with her appearance, begins researching the ability of chameleons to change their appearance, becoming... Chameleon Girl! A scientist discovers a method to enlarge insects to gigantic sizes, foreshadowing any number of 1950s monster movies, and Captain Marvel, Jr. must deal with the consequences. The Marvel Family and the Interplanetary Theft!; Capt. Marvel Jr. and the Worm that Grew!; Mary Marvel Meets the Chameleon Girl!; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Kanvasback; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry; Captain Marvel and the Mysterious Migration; Horse Trader Hawley. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, The Marvel Family discovers that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are real. And their time has come at last, unless The Marvel Family can stop them. The Four Horsemen Ride Again, Chapter 1: Shazam's Warning; Spook Cargo; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Starry Night; Chapter 2: The Fury of the Flames; Chapter 3: The Last Stand of the Marvel Family. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Pete Costanza, Bill Ward, Kurt Schaffenberger, Pete Riss and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. To earn money for charity, The Marvel Family must survive for one day in Antarctica, the dinosaur era, and a desert planet populated by cactus-people...while in their human identities of Billy, Mary and Freddy. Bored with having heard every joke ever, the Roman god of laughter obliterates humor from the world, in a story with art by Torchy creator Bill Ward. Mary Marvel can't figure out why full-grown adults are suddenly acting like children. Plus a vintage ad for wallets, belts and suspenders featuring movie cowboy Roy Rogers. The Marvel Family Proves Human Hardiness; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Egg-asperating Scoop; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Ban on Laughter; Mary Marvel: The Adult Children; Farmer Frammis; Freshman Freddy: The Big Dance; Danger on the Dock; Captain Marvel: The Million Dollar Tasks. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk, Pete Costanza, Kurt Schaffenberger, Pete Riss and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. Prof. Thorne invents a device that scrambles people's speech and writing, but that just causes worldwide chaos. Freddy Freeman learns why he's so accident-prone when he meets the Sheriff of Trublin Land, seeking rogue mischief-causing "Trublins" that have escaped into the human world. the original Captain Marvel discovers what Sivana hoped he would never find: Sivana's collection of benevolent and life-improving inventions. The Theft of Speech; Tick and Tack; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Interview; Mary Marvel: The Melody of Crime; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Trublins; The Roller Robber; Captain Marvel: Sivanas Good Inventions; Thaddeus the Thespian. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Pete Costanza, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family faces the mystical menace of Madame Bella Donna and Black Wizard, and the Mystery of the Living Statuettes. Captain Marvel, Jr. investigates when a mad scientist's "Hair Blight" causes everyone in the city to go bald, resulting in a rush on wigs and toupees. Captain Marvel explores a newly-discovered square world (not the Bizarro World), and is mistaken for the only other human on the planet, a criminal. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Baldness Plague; Mary Marvel Chases the Will OWisp; Handy Weapon; Luke and Fluke; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Mad Scientist; Captain Marvel: The Mystery of the Square World; Woods the Woodsman. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, C. C. Beck, Pete Costanza, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, The Marvel Family discovers a school for witches, decades before that other school in the British Isles. This place is for the "Wicked" kind of witches, and run by a demon named Ichabod Vort, who causes trouble for The Marvel Family. The Marvel Family and the School for Witches, Chapter 1: The Flying Broomstick; Headline Harry: The Accidental Accident!; Two Can Play; Chapter 2: Ichabod's Black Magic; Kanvasback: The Fightless Fighter; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Chapter 3: The Trap of Terror; Newspaper Ned: Open House! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Pete Costanza, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bud Thompson (credited as Bernard Thompson), Pete Riss, Bill Woolfolk, Sheldon Moldoff, Art Helfant, George Marko, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. Professor Mason's ray enlarges the Earth and every object on it, but people are now tiny figures in relation. The citizens of a flower-rich valley agree to allow an exterminator (in a cropduster) eliminate all insects, but only Mary Marvel realizes this will upset the ecosystem and kill the flowers and plants as well. The hermit Ezra Bitterstone blames humanity for mistreating him and begins to take revenge with his deadly inventions. The Man Who Changed the World; Fence Buster; Mary Marvel: The Evil Exterminator; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Good Rumor Factory; Judge Smudge; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Big Alarm; Rubbernose Randolph; Oh, Doctor; Dopey Danny Dee; The World Hater. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Pete Costanza, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bud Thompson (credited as Bernard Thompson), Pete Riss, Bill Woolfolk, Sheldon Moldoff, Art Helfant, George Marko, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. Professor Dunkel creates rings around the Earth like those of Saturn, but even The Marvel Family doesn't suspect his secret motive. A criminal uses science to transform ordinary plants into green thugs that point guns and say things like, "Yeah, Boss!" Sivana's latest invention is a disintegrator ray that even works on Marvels. The Menace of the Rings Around Earth; Bear Trap Blues; Mary Marvel Battles the Predatory Plants; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Radioactive Air; Tightwad Tad; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Ride Em, Cowboy; Captain Marvel: Sivanas Marvel Disintegrator. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, Al Liederman, Pete Riss, Bill Woolfolk, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family investigates after an entire city disappears beneath the waves. Captain Marvel, Jr. learns the strange secret of Sir Reginald. Mary Marvel visits a land where the leader is a tyrant who keeps his people primitive, so he can have the country's wealth in resources for himself. The Man Who Sank a City; Headline Harry: The Goofy Assignment!; Mary Marvel: The Miser of Resources!; Capt. Marvel Jr.: Sir Reginald and the Beastman; Lazy Lee: Losing His Sleep!; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Captain Kid: The 88 Keys to Success!; The Laughing Ghost; Captain Marvel: The Governor of Space. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, a call for help from the center of the Earth leads The Marvel Family to an underground civilization. The king would rather destroy the underworld than abdicate his power, and tries to do so with a "helium bomb." So the Marvels set out to find a new home for the underworlders on another planet. The Worlds Mightiest Project, Chapter One: The Amazing Underground Secret; Economic-Minded Ed; Beulah the Bride; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The New News; The Corpse Came Back; Chapter Two: Building a World; Chapter Three: Peril Strikes the New Earth; Dusty: The Changing Opinion. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger, Pete Costanza, Pete Riss, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When the people of a crowded land fear the bandits of the nearby mountains, The Marvel Family solves both problems at once by simply getting rid of the mountains. The original Captain Marvel loses his sense of taste, and sets out to find who or what is responsible. Mary Marvel meets a man who loves hate mail and does terrible things just to get more hate, a sort of predictor of future social-media phenomena. The Land That Never Was; Capt. Marvel: The Mystery of the Lost Sense; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Firing Escape; Mary Marvel: The Collector of Hate; As Thousands Jeer; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Floating Department Store; Captain Marvel: The Runaway Genius. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger, Pete Costanza, Pete Riss, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. Time-traveling villains Doctor X/Y/Z set out to abduct the greatest geniuses in all history and force them to make super-weapons and doomsday devices. Ebenezer Whitt tries to prove to Billy Batson that he's 200 years old, a claim that rings a bell with the descendant of a swindler who once sold Ebenezer a fake Fountain of Youth. Mary Marvel battles the evil wizard Diavlo, who can not only conjure monsters, but can create duplicates of himself so Mary's not sure who to punch. The Triple Time Plot; Bigby; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Nobleman; Mary Marvel Fights the Likeness Peril; Captain Marvel: The Man Who Lived Two Centuries; Captain Marvel Jr. Fights the Freak Fiasco; Key to Crime; Captain Marvel: The Blackness Plague. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Pete Costanza, inks by Pete Costanza. The Sneaking Doom Ch. 1: The Land, Sea, and Air Mystery, script by Otto Binder, pencils by C. C. Beck, inks by Pete Costanza; The Managers of Earth decide to find out who is most powerful, Water, Land or Gas; They do this by changing the laws of physics to see what happens. Man of Action humor page starring Lazy Lee. Paid In Full text story by Kermit Welles. The Battling Bruiser, script and art by by Howard Boughner; Headline Harry owes a bully five dollars. The Sneaking Doom Ch. 2: The Creeping Horror; The Marvel Family escapes from the Managers of Earth and stop more of their disasters. Man of Property humor page starring Boxcar Benny. The Sneaking Doom Ch. 3: The End of the World; the Marvel Family stops the Managers of the Earth from destroying the planet. Marvel Family Puzzle Page. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bill Woolfolk, Pete Costanza, Pete Riss, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When The Marvel Family discovers a Stone Age tribe living without money, they introduce the concept, and completely change every aspect of the formerly primitive society. In a similar vein, the Space Philanthropist wants to grant the wishes of everyone on Earth, but that destabilizes society, as the wishes are very specific and dangerous. Sivana's latest invention makes the original Captain Marvel the most hated individual on Earth, and Sivana the most beloved. Another terrific Marvel Family cover by Pete Costanza. The Money-Making Mystery; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Scary Business; Mary Marvel: The Man Who Killed With Kindness; Captain Marvel Jr.: Headline of Horror; Polly Wants a Killer; The Worldwide Hatred. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family goes in search of a missing galaxy, and encounters a catastrophic collision of galaxies and a war that has lasted for a million years. Headline Harry realizes that the pickpocket stalking the city park is actually a gang of squirrels. The original Captain Marvel discovers that the unwashed hobo Jeb Jutter is one of the greatest engineering minds of all time. The Million Year War; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Squirrel Mystery; Poison; The Unknown Genius. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When whole towns disappear without a trace, The Marvel Family investigates and discovers the answers lead to the bottom of the ocean. Sivana is responsible, and when The Marvel Family gets close, he sets a trap for them using the great beasts of the deep, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. Sivanas Undersea Kingdom , Chapter One: The Vanishing Towns; Music Thief; Boxcar Benny; Vouching Vardon; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Airport Scoop; Chapter Two: The Underwater Trap; Chapter Three: Monsters of the Deep. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When strange disasters begin occurring at sea, The Marvel Family investigates and discovers the trail leads to space pirates. They must stop the canny space-pirate commander Kozz, but first they must find his camouflaged ship, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. The Pirate Planet, Chapter One: The Amazing Sea Mystery; Warriors of the Sea: Defeat of the Guerriere; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Circus Craze; Chapter Two: The Weird Water World; Chapter Three: The Invasion of Earth. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When Billy Batson's radio station gets into TV broadcasting (a hot topic in 1951), Sivana decides to bend the new technology to his own nefarious purposes. The Marvel Family must stop him, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure that asks the question, "Will television reach around the world like radio in the near future?" Sivanas Terrible Television Plot, Chapter One: The Sivana Bomb Strikes; Trouble for Two; Boxcar Benny; Chapter Two: Doom to USA-TV; Lazy Lee; Chapter Three: The World-TV Man Hunt; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Syncopation Sap; Scribbling Scribbs. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When a strange melting malady befalls the city, Billy, Mary and Freddy find themselves unable to utter the magic words that transform them into The Marvel Family. It takes intervention by the wizard Shazam to save them, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. The Tenement Terror, Chapter One: The Melting Mystery; Death Watch; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Turf King; Chapter Two: The Trap of Softness; Chapter Three: The Living Nightmare; Hollis, the Autograph Hound. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family finds themselves involved in the worldwide search for the legendary Miracle Stone, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. It will offer untold power to the person who finds it, power which may be dangerous in the hands of ordinary mortals. The Miracle Stone, Chapter One: Safari to Danger; The Face of Murder; Chapter Two: The Mad Miracles; Fiddlers Folly; Chapter Three: The Miracle of the Marvels; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Cinema Scoop!; Speechless Sperry. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.