Captain Marvel Adventures #18

(December 11, 1942)

Contents page (Table of Contents)

none / credits / 1 page (report information)

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typeset

Captain Marvel Introduces Mary Marvel (Table of Contents)

Captain Marvel / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Marc Swayze; Mac Raboy (Captain Marvel, Jr. figures)

Inks:

Marc Swayze

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson] (Billy Batson's twin sister, introduction, origin); Sterling Morris; Percy Pill; Sarah Primm (Billy and Mary's nurse, death); Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Shazam

Synopsis:

Billy accidently discovers that a young girl, appearing on the Station W.H.I.Z. radio show, "The Mental Marvel Quiz," possesses half of a strange locket that he has the other half to, and that her former nurse confirms the fact that Billy and Mary are actually twins!

Reprints:

• in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #8 (December 1973)
• in Shazam! (Williams Forlag, 1974 series) #5/1974 ([mai] 1974)
• in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #[nn] (1977)
• in Shazam! and the Shazam Family! Annual (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
• in The Shazam! Family Archives (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([September] 2006)

Reprint Note before Migration:

• in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #8
• in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn
• in Shazam! and the Shazam Family! Annual (DC, 2002 series) #1
• in Shazam! Family Archives, The (DC, 2006 series) #1

Keywords:

Station WHIZ

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Giggle Gags / filler / 1 page (report information)

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Genre:

humor

Captain Marvel Fights a Nightmare (Table of Contents)

Captain Marvel / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

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Script:

?

Pencils:

C. C. Beck ?

Inks:

C. C. Beck ?

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?

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Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Steamboat

Killer In the North (Table of Contents)

none / text story / 2 pages (report information)

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Script:

Carl Formes (signed)

Letters:

typeset

The What-Not Adventure (Table of Contents)

Captain Marvel / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

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Script:

Alfred Bester ? Marc Swayze ?

Pencils:

C. C. Beck ?

Inks:

C. C. Beck ?

Colors:

?

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?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]

Indexer Notes

Swayze writer credit based on interview w/him in Alter Ego #56 (February, 2006), and added by Craig Delich.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Adventures In Stamps / filler / 1 page (report information)

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? [as Joe Simon] (signed as Simon)

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?; typeset (some)

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

[Tanks A Lot] (Table of Contents)

Captain Kidd / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Liederman

Pencils:

Al Liederman

Inks:

Al Liederman

Colors:

?

Letters:

Al Liederman

Content Information

Characters:

Captain Kidd

Indexer Notes

Letterer added by Craig Delich 2010-2-1.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Strange But True / filler / 1 page (report information)

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Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

This filler says that over 7,000 Captain Marvel drawings are published annually.

The Three Wishes of Tim Tucker (Table of Contents)

Captain Marvel / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

C. C. Beck ?

Inks:

C. C. Beck ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Shazam; Steamboat; Tim Tucker; Professor Murder (villain, introduction)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Comix Cards / filler / 1 page (report information)

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? (various)

Inks:

? various)

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Content Information

Characters:

Captain Marvel Jr.; Bulletgirl