64 Pages of New Captain Marvel Adventures #[1]

([March] 1941)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Black blank page on ifc & ibc.

[Captain Marvel vs. Z] (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script

Manly Wade Wellman

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Dick Briefer

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sterling Morris; Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain); Z (villain, introduction, a robot, death); Spike (villain)

Synopsis

Thwarted time and time again by his avowed enemy, Captain Marvel, Sivana decides to create a rival that is more than human to combat his hated foe... a foe he calls "Z", because he is the ultimate in toughness.

Reprints

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1973 series) #10 (1974)
• in The Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #[2] - 1940-1941 (1997)
• in The Shazam! Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2 ([September] 1999)

Keywords

Shazam; Station WHIZ

Indexer Notes

Inking credit from Jack Kirby, via Greg Theakston.

Writing credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/ . Formerly credited to Joe Simon. Wellman attempted to spell his name using the first letter in the first speech balloon of the panels from the first three pages of the story. Spells "MANLY MADE TELLMAH"

Out West (Table of Contents: 3)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script

Manly Wade Wellman ?

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Dick Briefer

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Miss Daisy; Gino (villain, bronco rider); Bid Boy Larbozo [aka Mr. Laraaby] (villain, boss of the ranch)

Synopsis

Billy is on vacation at Rimrock and gets involved, as Captain Marvel, in a bronco riding contest. But Billy spots the owner of the Crossbone Ranch and feels he knows him, and begins an investigation that leads him directly to the owner as the leader of a large rustling operation while he poses as a victim himself of the band of rustlers.

Reprints

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1973 series) #10 (1974)
• in The Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #[2] - 1940-1941 (1997)
• in The Shazam! Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2 ([September] 1999)

Keywords

Crossbone Ranch; Rimrock; Shazam; Station WHIZ

Indexer Notes

Inks credit from Jack Kirby, via Greg Theakston.

Simon and Kirby allegedly testified that they used scripts from Fawcett, at their portion of the Captain Marvel - Superman trial.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Captain Marvel Pencil-Puzzle-Page / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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Characters

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]

Synopsis

Captain Marvel offers three different activities for readers to work on and enjoy: a connect the dot activity, activity that challenges readers to see how many words (of three letters or more) they can make out of the word "English", and a "Play Square" Planet activity in which readers are to connect a dot to the nearest dot, numbering lines that do not close a square (there are 19 in all).

Reprints

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1973 series) #10 (1974)
• in The Shazam! Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2 ([September] 1999)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Billy Batson's Page of Games / activity / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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Characters

Billy Batson

Synopsis

Billy offers four different activities for readers to complete, including a Planet Play Square exercise of connecting nearest dots and numbering lines, a maze, and two more.

Reprints

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1973 series) #10 (1974)
• in The Shazam! Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2 ([September] 1999)

Keywords

Station WHIZ

Indexer Notes

This activity is incorrectly located in the Archive edition. There it follows the story of Captain Marvel on Saturn when it should follow Captain Marvel's Pencil-Puzzle-Page.

[The Monsters of Saturn] (Table of Contents: 6)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script

Manly Wade Wellman ?; Joe Simon ?

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Dick Briefer

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Captain Marvel has been recognized as the mightiest living creature on this world, and on at least one other. It was like this--

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Hargo (scientist); the Dragon Men (villains, giant lizards, all die); unnamed ruler of the Dragon Men (villain, death); Ghoppo (villain, spy among the slaves, death)

Synopsis

Billy receives a message from Saturn over his radio device from captives that are being enslaved by monsters on the planet, asking for assistance. Captain Marvel travels by rocket ship to Saturn to take on the vicious slave drivers, allowing himself to be captured by his foes in order to get the full story about the enemy before he deals with them and prevent an invasion of the Earth.

Reprints

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1973 series) #10 (1974)
• in The Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #[2] - 1940-1941 (1997)
• in The Shazam! Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2 ([September] 1999)
• in Shazam! The Greatest Stories Ever Told (DC, 2008 series) ([June] 2008)

Keywords

Shazam; Station WHIZ

Indexer Notes

Inks credit from Jack Kirby, via Greg Theakston.

Simon and Kirby allegedly testified that they used scripts from Fawcett, at their portion of the Captain Marvel - Superman trial. Credits in Shazam! The Greatest Stories Ever Told credits the script to Joe Simon.

This story does not feature a titled masthead.

Thor Precursor. Shazam referred to as “Thunder God” and fights Aliens from Saturn. This motif used when Kirby co-created Thor in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #83 with Thunder God fighting Aliens from Saturn as per Comic Book Historians article researched by Alex Grand.

Battles the Vampire (Table of Contents: 7)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script

Manly Wade Wellman ?

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Dick Briefer

Colors

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Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sterling Morris; Doctor Deever (death); Bram Thirla (villain, introduction, a vampire, death); group of unnamed vampires (villain, introduction for all, all die)

Synopsis

Billy is given an assignment to interview a Doctor Deever, who has created a process to restore the dead to life. The doctor takes Billy to a cemetery and succeeds in raising a vampire back to life, losing his own in the process. Captain Marvel must figure out a way to defeat his unholy foe before more people become its victims, and, as Billy, checks out a book to aid him in his cause: "The Vampire Legend" by H. P. Lovecraft.

Reprints

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1973 series) #10 (1974)
• in The Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #[2] - 1940-1941 (1997)
• in The Shazam! Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2 ([September] 1999)

Keywords

Shazam; Station WHIZ

Indexer Notes

Inker credit from Jack Kirby, via Greg Theakston.

Simon and Kirby allegedly testified that they used scripts from Fawcett, at their portion of the Captain Marvel - Superman trial.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Black blank page on ifc & ibc.

Capt. Marvel (Table of Contents: 9)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Jack Kirby

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]

Reprints

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1973 series) #10 (1974)

Indexer Notes

On back cover of comic.