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Issue: Shazam! #1
Publication Date: February 1973
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [circle]View Brand Images
On Sale Date: 12/14/1972
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #91.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #8,12-17)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
The Original Captain Marvel

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Superman [Clark Kent]; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Reprinting
FlagShazam #1 published January 1974
FlagShazam! #1/1974 published January 1974
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagShazam Classics #1 published January 1974
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagShazam ! #1 published April 1974
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagShowcase Presents: Shazam #1 published February 2007
as Shazam! #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
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...In the Beginning ...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Otto O. Binder; The Mysterious Stranger; The Seven Deadly Enemies of Man [Pride; Envy; Greed; Hatred; Selfishness; Laziness; Injustice]; Shazam
After missing for 20 years, Captain Marvel returns to Earth. Origin retold.
Reprinting
FlagShazam! #1/1974 published January 1974
as Det begynte slik ... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase Presents: Shazam #1 published February 2007
as ...In The Beginning... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
S-1363
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Part 1. Retells Captain Marvel's origin. Otto O. Binder, who appears briefly in the story, was a prolific writer and wrote the majority of Marvel Family stories published by Fawcett Publications.
The World's Wickedest Plan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson] (flashback); Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman] (flashback)]; Sivana Family [Dr. Sivana; Georgia; Sivana, Jr.] (villain); Uncle Marvel [as Uncle Dudley] (cameo); Miss Joan Jameson (cameo); Sterling Morris (cameo); Cissie Sommerly (cameo); Pa Potter (cameo); Ma Potter (cameo); Professor Edgewise (cameo); Beautia Sivana (cameo); Mr. Tawky Tawny (cameo)
Captain Marvel escapes the trap that Dr. Sivana had created that caused the Marvel Family to be placed in suspended animation for the last 20 years.
Reprinting
FlagShazam! #1/1974 published January 1974
as En uhyggelig plan [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShazam from the Forties to the Seventies #[nn] published January 1977
as The World's Wickedest Plan [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase Presents: Shazam #1 published February 2007
as The World's Wickedest Plan [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
S-1371
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Part 2.
Shazam & Son

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
typeset
Reprinting
FlagShazam! #1/1974 published January 1974
as Shazam og sønnen hans [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase Presents: Shazam #1 published February 2007
as Shazam & Son [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
S-1405
The story of the World's Mightiest Mortal. Includes a key to the characters at the bottom of page 8 in this issue's second story.
The Endless String!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; King of Zoozland; Dr. Grenn
Reprinting
FlagCaptain Marvel Adventures #55 published March 1946
was The Endless String [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7.67
S-1374

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