Shazam!
#26
(November-December 1976)
DC,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 4
- Price
- 0.30 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1976-08-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A DC TV Comic [character]
- Barcode
- 0709893068812
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from promotional ad in Isis #1 and from Comic Reader #134.
[no title indexed]
Captain Marvel / Shazam! / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ernie Chan (signed)
- Inks
- Kurt Schaffenberger (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-314
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Can the world's mightiest mortal stop the plot to kidnap Congress?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
- Reprints
-
in Supermán (Editorial Novaro, 1952 series) #1131 (17 de noviembre de 1977) -
in Showcase Presents: Shazam (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([February] 2007) - in Shazam!: The World's Mightiest Mortal (DC, 2019 series) #2 ([June] 2020)
-
The Case of the Kidnapped Congress
Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- J-4961
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]]; Shazam; Mentor [Uncle Dudley] (first as Mentor); Elders [Solomon; Hercules; Atlas; Zeus; Achilles; Mercury]; Sterling Morris; Whitey Murphy (cameo); Miss Joan Jameson (cameo); Mr. Tawky Tawny (cameo); Cissy Sommerly (cameo); Sunny Sparkle (cameo); Dexter Knox (cameo); Doc Quartz (cameo); Ma Potter (cameo); Pa Potter (cameo); Chet Porter (intro); Rod Porter (intro); Dr. Sivana [Thaddeus Bodog Sivana] (villain); Yorgull (intro, villain)
- Synopsis
- Billy and Uncle Dudley (as Mentor) set off on a tour around the country doing a series on young people. The first stop is Washington, DC, where Dr. Sivana has made the Capitol disappear.
- Reprints
- in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1977 series) ([September] 1977)
- in Showcase Presents: Shazam (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([February] 2007)
- in Shazam!: The World's Mightiest Mortal (DC, 2019 series) #2 ([June] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
This issue conforms the comic book to the Shazam television series, with Billy and Uncle Dudley (with a new mustache) going on the road in a van, and Billy talking to the Elders instead of the wizard Shazam.
The Fruit Pie Scene
Green Lantern; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Dr. Live (villain)
[no title indexed]
Shazamail! / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- L-525
Indexer Notes
Letters from readers - John Pierce, Doug Nye, Jeff Lewis and Sharon Porper - and responses from E. Nelson Bridwell.
Volume 76 Issue 15 - Week of August 9, 1976
Daily Planet / in-house column / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Solicitation for titles shipping the weeks of August 9, 1976 and August 16, 1976. Trivia Quiz #15. Spotlight on TEEN TITANS #44 and OUR FIGHTING FORCES #170.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Can the world's mightiest mortal stop the plot to kidnap Congress?"]
Captain Marvel / Shazam! -
1.
The Case of the Kidnapped Congress
Captain Marvel / Shazam! -
2.
The Fruit Pie Scene
Green Lantern; Hostess Fruit Pies -
3.
[no title indexed]
Shazamail! -
4.
Volume 76 Issue 15 - Week of August 9, 1976
Daily Planet
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Gregory Fischer
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Matthew Head
- Morbus Iff
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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