The Marvel Family #1

(December 1945)

Contents page (Table of Contents)

credits / 1 page (report information)

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Content Information

Characters:

Captain Marvel; Captain Marvel Jr.; Mary Marvel; Uncle Marvel [as Uncle Dudley]

Indexer Notes

Stock art

The Mighty Marvels Join Forces! (Table of Contents)

Marvel Family / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

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C. C. Beck

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C. C. Beck

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Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Shazam; Uncle Marvel [Uncle Dudley]; Black Adam [Teth-Adam; Mighty Adam] (first appearance; origin)

Reprinted:

• in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #8
• in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn (1977)
• in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #497
• in Shazam! and the Shazam Family! Annual (DC, 2002 series) #1

Indexer Notes

1st Marvel Family story, but Marvel Family first appears in Captain Marvel Adventures #18; retells origins of Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel, Jr., and Mary Marvel

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Boxcar Benny / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

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Genre:

gag

Characters:

Boxcar Benny; General Footsore

Indexer Notes

humor filler

The Show Case (Table of Contents)

Richard Richard, Private Dick / comic story / 3.5 pages (report information)

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Script:

Dick McCay

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Dick McCay

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Dick McCay

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Genre:

Gags; Detective; Humor

Characters:

Richard Richard; Ah Choo; Flub Dub

Shamrocks For Perry (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

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Script:

Bert Mill

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typeset

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Characters:

Gram O'Donnell; Lon O'Donnell; Perry O'Murian; Cosmo Costello

The Marvel Family and Baby Marvel (Table of Contents)

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

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Script:

Otto Binder

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C. C. Beck?

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C. C. Beck?

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Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Uncle Marvel [Uncle Dudley]; Intro: Baby Marvel; Blacky Bucher (V);

Indexer Notes

The Baby Marvel story is often used as an example of the over-abundance of Marvel Family characters and the general silliness of the Marvel Family stories yet Baby Marvel was a Marvel in name only and made only one appearance.

Various (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 3 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

[inside front]:Captain Marvel Club Merchandise; [35]: Mr. J.E. Smith - I Will Show You How to Learn Radio; [inside back cover]: The Marvel Family and Hoppy Hawk Mechanix Illustrated