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Issue: Captain Marvel Adventures #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1941
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Issues: #4 of 147 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: A Fawcett Publication [Triangle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/24/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interiors
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series; anthology
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
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In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as Cover - Captain Marvel Adventures #4 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Sivana's Revenge on the Lieutenant Marvels

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Three Lieutenant Marvels [Fat Billy [Billy Batson]; Hill Billy [Billy Batson]; Tall Billy [Billy Batson]]; Sterling Morris; Beautia Sivana; Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain); Slug (villain); Joe (villain)
First Line: Once again the Billy Batsons of America jin up...
Synopsis: When Sivana's attempt to run Billy Batson over with a car fails, he orders Batson to be kidnapped and brought to his lair. Unfortunately, the thug sent to accomplish the deed, finds four Billy Batsons at his residence, so the three visiting Billys are taken away, and the real Billy must rescue the Three Lieutenant Marvels from Sivana and his thugs as Captain Marvel.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as Sivana's Revenge on the Lieutenant Marvels [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: The Captain Marvel figure on the splash is also found on the cover of the Captain Marvel Thrill Book.
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Code of Glory

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Raleigh
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (spot illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Juan Perez; Max; Eric; Jack Sharum; Crespi
First Line: Young Juan Perez huddled over...
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Pages: 2
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The Tunnel of Invasion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; The War Lord [Adolf Hitler (villain)]; the Nazis (villains)
First Line: The world is mine...
Synopsis: Captain Marvel saves a defecting Nazi pilot, who fled to America when Hitler began enslaving people in the European nations. The man tells Cap about a secret Nazi project on the western shore of Europe, and when he investigates, discovers (and later destroys) an invasion tunnel Adolf Hitler is having dug beneath the Atlantic Ocean.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as The Tunnel of Invasion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 16
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: That camels roamed American deserts...
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Pages: 1
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The Secret Submarine Base

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sterling Morris; Officer Casey; un-named informant (death); Gus (cab rider); Butch (cab driver); Mr. Fog (villain, introduction); Baron Von Slugg (villain, introduction); Heinrich (villain)
First Line: And then threr was the time Captain Marvel got in a fight with a submarine...
Synopsis: Captain Marvel dresses in civilan clothes to see what is happening around town and runs into an informer, who tells Marvel about a secret Nazi submarine base being established in South America.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as The Secret Submarine Base [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Chubby; Papa
First Line: Oh boy!
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Pages: 2
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The Lawless Legion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sterling Morris; Mr. Shaw (prosecutor, introduction); Officer Flynn (introduction, death); Giggy Golton (villain, introduction); Beefy (villain, introduction, reforms); un-named sniper (villain, death)
First Line: Giggy Golton wanted an empire of crime...
Synopsis: Billy is assigned to cover the Giggy Golton trial and witnesses the murder of a top witness against the criminal. When the prosecuting attorney threatens to dig up more evidence against Golton, Captain Marvel must prevent his murder.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as The Lawless Legion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 15

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