Captain Marvel Adventures #38

(August 1944)

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

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

C. C. Beck

Inks

C. C. Beck

Colors

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Letters

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Captain Marvel and the Man Nobody Loved! (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain Marvel / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Binder

Pencils

Pete Costanza ?

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Pete Costanza ?

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]

Golden Soot (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Thomas Jameson

Letters

typeset

Genre

children

Kids, Sock the Axis with this Power-Packed Waste Paper Punch! (Table of Contents: 4)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

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Captain Marvel Down On the Farm! (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Otto Binder

Pencils

C. C. Beck ?

Inks

C. C. Beck ?

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]

Captain Marvel and the Chattanooga Ghost (Table of Contents: 6)

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

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C. C. Beck ?

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C. C. Beck ?

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Ghost [Buddy] (first appearance, a nutty kid)

Indexer Notes

City story: Chattanooga, TN

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Sergeant Sandy / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

I'm tired of getting pushed around when I give an order...

Genre

humor; military

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

Dopey Danny Dee / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

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Pencils

George Marko

Inks

George Marko

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

A job at last I know I'm going to make good...

Genre

humor

Hurry! (Table of Contents: 9)

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

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Genre

superhero

Indexer Notes

Entry form for the Captain Marvel Club.

Missing Face Contest No. 3 (Table of Contents: 10)

Captain Marvel / activity / 1 page (report information)

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Pencils

C. C. Beck

Inks

C. C. Beck

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Genre

superhero

Indexer Notes

contest

[Cheap Skates] (Table of Contents: 11)

Captain Kid / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Pencils

Al Liederman ?

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Al Liederman ?

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

That's a neat figure 8 he's cutting there!

Genre

humor; children

The Monster Society of Evil Starring Captain Marvel Chapter 17: Mr. Mind's Movie Madness (Table of Contents: 12)

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

Script

Otto Binder

Pencils

C. C. Beck

Inks

C. C. Beck

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [also appears as Billy Batson]; Mr. Mind (villain); Hitchblock; Herkimer (first appearance, villain, crocodile man); Sylvester (first appearance, villain, crocodile man); Marmaduke (first appearance, villain, crocodile man)

Synopsis

Mr. Mind escapes again. Returning home, Billy receives a letter from Hollywood director Hitchblock, who wants to make a movie to warn America about Mr. Mind and the Monster Society. Mr. Mind infiltrates the studio and takes the place of the mechanical worm being used in the movie, and directs some of his monsters to kidnap Billy, who's acting in the film, and throw him off a cliff.

Reprints

• in The Monster Society of Evil (Hawk Books, 1989 series) (1989)
• in Shazam!: A Celebration of 75 Years (DC, 2015 series) ([June] 2015)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1679 - The Complete Original Monster Society of Evil ([January] 2018)

Keywords

Hollywood; movies