Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) comic books 1955 or before

Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) 19 VG- 3.5

Centerfold detached at one staple.

Cover by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk, and Jack Binder. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel family faces a giant that has been slumbering under the Old Man of the Mountain rock formation for generations. Construction on a tunnel under the West River awakens a sleeping triton that attacks the workers, and Mary Marvel dives into action. The original Captain Marvel gets involved in the cutthroat world of midget auto racing when he offers to help a boy win the race for his elderly inventor father. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Saves the School Party, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. Classic cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. The Monster Menace; Judge Smudge; Lazy Lee; Peewee Pete; Captain Marvel, Jr.: The Correspondence School Genius; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: The Triton and the Tunnel; Coffin of Concrete; Ice-Capades; Captain Marvel: The Midget Auto Race. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) 53 VG 4.0

1" spine split from bottom.

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.

Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) 83 VG- 3.5

Only one staple (manufacturing).

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. While visiting Pa Potter, Billy, Mary and Freddy discover an old treasure map and go in search of lost treasure. This Goonies-style adventure takes a left turn with the appearance of the Scarlet Skull and his army of zombies, something only the Marvels can handle. Headline Harry's hand-grenade joke gets him assigned to the underworld beat. The Flying Skull; FBI Triumphs; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Handy Hand Grenade; Wilbur the Waiter; Rubbernose Randolph; The Marvel Family Battles Chief Thundercloud. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) 84 VG 4.0

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger, Art Helfant and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. In a multi-part adventure, the Sivana family plots three different death traps for each of the three members of the Marvel Family in their human identities. This triple death-trap is the Golden Age swan song of the younger Sivanas, who don't appear again until the 1970s. The Triple Trap of Terror, Chapter One: The Sinister Sivana Scheme; Chapter Two: The Boiling Menace; Chapter Three: The Avalanche Terror; Chapter Four: Rulers of Land, Sea and Air; Jungle Fate; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Haunted House; Wilbur the Waiter; Dizzy Daisy; Rubbernose Randolph; Captain Marvel, Jr.: The Victim of Circumstances. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) 89 FR/GD 1.5

Portion of back cover missing. Centerfold detached. Water damage. Puncture damage.

Cover art by Kurt Schaffenberger. Death's Direction text story by John Martin. Fights the Dark Curse; the Marvel family faces Sterling Morris. If The Shoe Fits starring Headline Harry, scrip and art by Howard Boughner. Then There Were None Ch. 1: One By One, art by Kurt Schaffenberger; The tenants of Mrs. Wagner's rooming house are disappearing, until only Billy Batson and Freddy Freeman are left. Then There Were None Ch. 2: Then There Are None; Billy and Freddy discover that everybody else in the boarding house has been replaced with robots. Then There Were None Ch. 3: Robots Robots Robots; Billy and Freddy rescue the rest of the members of Mrs. Wagner's boarding house from Lem Blucher and his robot replacements. Last app. of Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel, Jr., Mary Marvel, Prof. Edgewise, Mrs. Wagner, Red O'Reilly, Leroy Marks, & Jim Bellows until Shazam! #1. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.