(May 1944)

Fawcett, 1941 Series
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Volume
6
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
60
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1944-03-31
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Brand
A Fawcett Magazine
Editing
J. B. Magill

Issue Notes

Circulation: 1,360,524 (data from Audit Bureau of Circulation via Russ Mahera)

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 2.

The World of Largeness (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Kurt Schaffenberger ?
Inks
Kurt Schaffenberger ?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Holy moley! It-it's myself in miniature!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] (also inset)
Reprints
Keywords
microscope

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

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
C. C. Beck
Inks
C. C. Beck
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Captain Marvel presents...

"Radar" the International Policeman (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
?
Pencils
C. C. Beck
Inks
C. C. Beck; ? (Beck Studio)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Radar [Pep Pepper]; (introduction, origin); Bob Hope; Dorothy Lamour; Franklin D. Roosevelt (as voice in darkness); Joseph Stalin (as voice in darkness); Winston Churchill (as voice in darkness); Chang Kai-Shek (as voice in darkness); Adolf Hitler (villain); Hermann Goering (villain)

Indexer Notes

Next appearance in Master Comics #50.

Inker revision from solely Beck by Craig Delich per Alter Ego #156 (January 2019).

$2000 in Prizes (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Escape from Two-Way Death! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Adventures of "R. C." and Quickie / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Capt Marvel Finds Action In Indianapolis (Table of Contents: 5)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
C. C. Beck
Inks
C. C. Beck
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Percy Discord (first appearance, Sterling Morris's nephew)

Indexer Notes

City story: Indianapolis, IN

Mechanix Illustrated Is Our Favorite, Too! (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Captain Marvel / Shazam!; Captain Midnight / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Captain Marvel Speaking— (Table of Contents: 7)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
C. C. Beck ?
Inks
C. C. Beck ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
advocacy; superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]

Indexer Notes

paper-drive feature

Victory Lumberjack! (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Hodges (credited as Carl G. Hodges)
Letters
typeset

Genre
adventure

Capt. Marvel... In the World of Largeness (Table of Contents: 9)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
Otto Binder
Pencils
Pete Costanza ?
Inks
Pete Costanza ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Reltih (first appearance, villain, death)
Reprints

And Still They Come! (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

The Snortville Sneeze / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Notice - Alonzo Fishook, editor of the Snortville Sneeze, has lost all his reporters to the draft...
Genre
humor

Captain Marvel and the Monster Society of Evil, Chapter 14: Mr. Mind's Blitz! (Table of Contents: 12)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Otto Binder
Pencils
C. C. Beck and staff
Inks
C. C. Beck and staff
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel [also appears as Billy Batson]; Mr. Mind (villain)
Synopsis
Mr. Mind and his Nazi allies continue to attack the coast of Scotland from his floating island. He thaws out a woolly mammoth from his frozen island to fight Captain Marvel.
Reprints
Keywords
Nazis; Scotland; submarines; woolly mammoths; World War II

Indexer Notes

Staff art references per P. C. Hamerlinck in Alter Ego #147 (July 2017).