(June 1987)

DC, 1987 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1987-02-24
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Roy Thomas (creative editor); Greg Weisman (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #37.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Tom Mandrake (signed)
Inks
Tom Mandrake (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel; Black Adam; Billy Batson
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Shazam: The New Beginning (DC, 1987 series) #3 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Shazam: The New Beginning (1987 series) #3 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for Shazam: The New Beginning (1987 series) #3 [Canadian]
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Shazam! The New Beginning Part Three "A" Is for Stamina... "Z" Is for Power... (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas; Dann Thomas
Pencils
Tom Mandrake
Inks
Tom Mandrake
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
Agustin Más
Job Number
G-2930
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Dudley Batson [Uncle Dudley]; Mrs. Peebles; Emily Thickert [Elvira Thickert]; Beautia Sivana; Magnificus Sivana; Wizard Shazam; Black Adam [Teth-Adam]; King Menes (flashback); Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana
Synopsis
Billy and Uncle Dudley arrive back in San Francisco, where Billy decides to contact Emily Thickert at station K-WHIZ to warn about the threat of Black Adam, however she attempts to turn Billy over to Beautia and Magnificus. Changing to Captain Marvel, Billy goes to the abandoned subway station where he finds the spirit of Shazam, who tells him of the origins of Black Adam.
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Indexer Notes

Named Emily Thickert here, she is later referred to as Elvira Thickert in Action Comics Weekly #623.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Captain Marvel / Shazam!
  2. 1. Shazam! The New Beginning Part Three "A" Is for Stamina... "Z" Is for Power...
    Captain Marvel / Shazam!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Peter Croome
  • Nuno Miranda
  • John Monagle
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Stangas
  • Jim Van Dore
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