Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) comic books

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.

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.

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.

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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. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

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. Stone Age supervillain King Kull threatens American democracy itself, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. The Marvels must prevent the hairy Beastman from raising a populist revolt for evil from the very electorate. The Democracy Smasher, Chapter One: King Kull Strikes; Web of Death; Boxcar Benny; Chapter Two: The Disaster of Dictator Day; Lazy Lee; Chapter Three: The Battle of the Torches!; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Well-Advised. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Costanza. 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 must prevent the Sivana family from capturing the Rock of Eternity, and hence the universe, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. During the family fracas that results, the wizard Shazam reveals that the Rock of Eternity is the Keystone of the Universe, and the universe itself cannot survive without it. The Capture of the Universe, Chapter One: The Raid at the Rock; Post the Host!; Double for Murder; Lazy Lee; Chapter Two: Sivana's Triumph!; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Crazy Assignment; Chapter Three: The Rightful Ruler Rules. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. 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. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, Billy, Mary and Freddy are made into senior citizens by an unknown force. This prevents the Marvel Family from transforming into their eternally young alter-egos, until they can get to the bottom of this strange manifestation of time. The Menace of Old Age, Chapter One: The Secret of the Castle; Tomb Time; Lazy Lee; Chapter Two: The Doddering Doom; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Big Bounce; Nick and Dick; Chapter Three: The Hoary Horror. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. 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. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, Mr. Morris, head of the radio station, gets transported back in time to the era of King Arthur. The Marvel Family travels back in time just in time to see him made regent until Arthur returns, and their adventure in Camelot begins. The Crusade of Evil, Chapter One: The Black Wizard Strikes!; The Professor; Tough Assignment; Lazy Lee; Chapter Two: The Dragon Danger; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Skinned Alive; Rawhide Hotchkiss Plans for a Raise; Chapter Three: King Arthur Returns. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck. 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. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, The Marvel Family investigates the mystery of Ghost Island. This supernatural-tinged tale suggests that the horror trend sweeping comics of the time was even affecting the likes of the light-hearted Marvel Family stories. The Mystery of Ghost Island, Chapter One: The Mirage Mystery; Perfect Crime; Big Shot Bigley; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Chapter Two: The Hunting Haunts; Headline Harry: The Busy Day; Chapter Three: The Horror Holocaust. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by C.C. Beck. The Pandora Pirates Ch. 1: The Treasure Danger, script by Otto Binder, art by C.C. Beck; Sterling Morris finds a magic bottle that leads him, along with Billy, Freddy and Mary, to what they hope is a buried treasure; Unfortunately there is no treasure, but they manage to release the Barbary Pirates. Crime On the Speedway text story by Daniel Sheldon. Marvel Family Puzzle Page. Doubtful Strategy humor half-page starring Boxcar Benny. Front Page Foolishness starring Headline Harry, script and art by Howard Boughner. The Pandora Pirates Ch. 2: The Pirate Plunder; Sterling Morris finds a magic hat that turns him into the leader of the Barbary Pirates. The Pandora Pirates Ch. 3: The Pirate Pay-Off; The Marvel Family rescues Sterling Morris from the Barbary Pirates and sends them to jail. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck. 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. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, The Marvel Family investigates when the crust of the Earth itself begins to crack. The culprit is Stone Age supervillain King Kull, and it takes a journey to Earth's center and a battle with an armored-up Kull to let the dust settle. The Crust Cracker, Chapter One: A World Cracks; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Chapter Two: The Mystery of the Buried City; Headline Harry: The Nutworthy Scoop; Freedoms Ferret; Chapter Three: The Whirling Doom. 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 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 encounters the alligator-like Hissmen, who've traveled through their Time Tube from a million years in the past. The Marvels must change to human form to use the Time Tube, but then they are captured and transformed into Hissmen themselves by the Hissmaker Machine. The Hissing Horror, Chapter 1: Attack of the Missing Men; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Chapter Two: Peril in the Past; Headline Harry: The Perfect Strategy; The Sure Hand; The Hotel Guest; Chapter 3: Battle of the Crossroads. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, The Marvel Family travels to the future year of 1960. There they find atomic-powered rocketships, a force of space cops, and space conquerors seeking an interstellar empire - just like the real 1960s. The Great Space Struggle, Chapter One: Peril Over Planet Prep; Yellow Kid; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Chapter Two: The Sivana Sabotage; Headline Harry: The Worm Turns; Podges and the Pill Roller; Chapter Three: Battle in Space. 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. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, The Marvel Family encounters "gremlins," an early example of these folklore creatures appearing in print. They learn the gremlins are actually alien beings drawn by humanity's discovery of nuclear power - but are they here to help, or to sabotage? The Atomic Crimes, Chapter One: The Gremlin Mystery; Point of Order; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Chapter Two: The Atomic Robberies; Headline Harry: The Big Bluff; Old Smokey: The Best Policy; Chapter Three: The Payoff on Zorkia. 32 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. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, The Marvel Family tries to prevent another of King Kull's attacks on civilization. This story promotes the "Junior U.N.," similar to the later Model UN, and indirectly the United Nations, a new organization at the time. Another unforgettable cover, possibly by Pete Costanza. The Threat of the Junior U.N., Chapter One: The Beastman Strikes; Green Thumb; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Chapter Two: The Marvel Air Lift; Headline Harry: The Stingiest Man in Town; The Torrential Downpour; Chapter Three: Peace or War. 32 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. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, The Marvel Family gets involved in both the Korean War and the Cold War. In the skies over Korea, the M's battle the Red Vulture, featuring the second issue in a row with "red scare" imagery on the cover (indicating the American mood at the time). The Red Star of Death, Chapter One: The Red Vulture Strikes; Candy Is Dandy; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Chapter Two: Horror from the Space Station; Headline Harry: The Mental Giant; Its the Law; Chapter Three: Death in Outer Space; Fizzy. 32 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. In an issue-length, multi-part adventure, The Marvel Family battles an ancient mummy that has been revived with evil intent. The story finds them lifting a pyramid, catching a plummeting Sphinx, and being struck with "the weird silence of the sphinx" so they cannot say their power words. The Marvel Family Battles the Dynasty of Horror, Chapter One: The Mad Mummy; Crooks in the Broth; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Chapter Two: The Horn of Howling Horrors; Headline Harry: The Courthouse Scoop; Substitute for Error; Chapter Three: The New Pyramid of Peril. 32 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. In another Korea/Cold War story, The Marvel Family searches the Korean Peninsula for the Commie mastermind known as the Great Red Brain, whose inventions include robot soldiers and giant magnets on submarines, to pull ships underwater. The mysterious World Jumbler rearranges geography so that mountains are by the sea, and cities are at the North Pole. The Great Red Brain; The Winner; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Among the Missing; The World Jumbler; The Ghastly Space Ghoul. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck. 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. In another Korea/Cold War story, enlarging pills turn a Communist soldier into a literal gigantic caricature - but he's no match for tough US GI Captain Inch Wade. In a multi-part adventure, Pasha Plunda uses his flying carpet and magic genie to cause chaos in the city, and even the Marvels are stymied. First issue with the new cover logo. The Mightiest Mongol; Quiet Music; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Screwball Serenade; The Plundering Pasha; The Perils of the Pasha; The Battle of Magic. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck. 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. In another Korea/Cold War story, monstrous animals are unleashed on US soldiers. But the G.I.-dog combo of Hank and Yank (Yank's the dog) helps The Marvel Family defend the good guys. In a multi-part adventure, the Ice King freezes a mining town and steals gold to build a giant version of his freeze ray, unless the Marvels can stop him. The Beast Battalions; Murder Mart; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Reckless Wreck; The Fantastic Freezing Furies, Chapter One: The March of the Glaciers; Chapter Two: Menace of the Ice King; Chapter Three: The Frozen Horror. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

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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.

Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bill Woolfolk, Bud Thompson, 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, an empire of the apes is discovered in the remote Amazon jungle. Vampira manages to awaken the Beast of Shenshu and send him after US forces in Korea, but Captain Marvel, Jr. is there too. The Primate Plot, Chapter One: The Jungle Jigsaw; Chapter Two: The Ape Army Attacks; Chapter Three: World of Apes; Vacuum Bloobstutter: Crime at High Noon; Lost and Found; Vampiras Beast of the Battlefield; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck. 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, King Kull plans to end civilization by destroying all the books on Earth. The Marvel Family responds by making him eat his words. In another story, The Marvel Family is attacked by random birds, cats and dogs. The Marvel Family Fights the Feathered Fury; Strange Happenings; Headline Harry: The Subscription Builder; Wilbur the Waiter; Dizzy Daisy; Rubbernose Randolph; The World Wrecker, Chapter One: Burn, Books, Burn!; Chapter Two: The Peril of the Paper Pyres; Chapter Three: Battle of the Books. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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, an ancient Egyptian plague causes people's heads to spontaneously shrink. During this story, the Marvels use their transforming lightning bolts to successfully defibrillate someone in cardiac arrest. The giant octopus attacking the city turns out to be a promotional stunt for boat salesman the Crazy Captain, who isn't just pretending to be crazy. Plus a vintage ad for the Captain Marvel Club. The Marvel Family Crushes the Crazy Crimes; Bad Luck; Rubbernose Randolph; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Front Page Yarn; The Pinhead Plague, Chapter One: An Ancient Horror Strikes; Chapter Two: The Sinister Spy Web; Chapter Three: The Riddle of the Ruins. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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, time-traveling supervillain Zotan uses mind control to take over the Earth. With the Marvel Family in ancient Egypt and the wizard Shazam trapped on another planet, things look grim for the future of humankind's past. The Marvel Family is kept hopping when someone keeps targeting Freddy's landlady Mrs. Wagner with potentially fatal practical jokes. Jokes of Jeopardy; Danger Lights; Rubbernose Randolph; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb; Dizzy Daisy; Wilbur the Waiter; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Fire Big; The Marvel Family Battles the King of All Time, Chapter One: The Conqueror of All Earth!; Chapter Two: The Trap of No Escape; Chapter Three: All History Enslaved. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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.