Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) comic books 1950

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.