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Issue: Captain Marvel Adventures #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1941
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Issues: #5 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: 11/07/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): France Herron
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
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck
Inker(s): C. C. Beck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; the Nazis
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as Cover - Captain Marvel Adventures #5 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Frontispiece

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck
Inker(s): Pete Costanza
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Billy Batson
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as Frontispiece [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Capt. Marvel's Double Trouble

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck
Inker(s): C. C. Beck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Princess Katinka (introduction); Beautia Sivana; Dr. Thaddeus Bopdog Sivana (villain); Maxim the Midget (villain, posing as an orphan, introduction); Bummy Bond [as Captain Marvel] (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Billy reports from a new theatre about Captain Marvel movies being shown there for an orphan's home party, all put together by Beautia. However, when the "management" introduces Captain Marvel live on the stage, Billy smells a rat, and discovers Sivana is behind it all. As the situation unfolds, it is discovered that Sivana had kidnapped the Princess of Mentonia and Captain Marvel must rescue her.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as Captain Marvel's Double Trouble [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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The King of the Crater

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck
Inker(s): C. C. Beck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sterling Morris; un-named State Governor; un-named Police Chief; Johnny (a baby); King of the Crater [Mr. Mawks] (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Captain Marvel is called out to investigate the eruption of a volcano in the Rockies, and must prevent a terrorist from taking control of the volcanoes in the Rocky Mountain chain.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as The King of the Crater [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12.66
Disclose Notes: The last 1/3 page of the story is an illustrated advertisement for XMAS Comics #1, on sale November 26, 1941, reproducing the cover.
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You Can't Kill a Ghost

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joseph Millard
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Capt. Marvel Solves the Swamp Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (Fawcett comics staff)
Inker(s): ? (Fawcett comics staff)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Pappy Sims (introduction); Mammy Sims (introduction); The Swamp Devil [Mr. Woggs] (villain, head of the swamp drainage project, introduction)
Synopsis: Billy is sent down to swamp country to get the story on the mysterious Swamp Creature, but it's Captain Marvel who discovers why The Swamp Devil is trying to scare people off their land.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as Captain Marvel Solves the Swamp Mystery [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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Introducing Captain Kid

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Liederman
Penciller(s): Al Liederman
Inker(s): Al Liederman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain Kid
Character(s): Captain Kid (first appearance; costumed kid pseudo-hero); Betty Mae (first appearance; his girlfriend)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Sivana's Strange Chemical Potion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck
Inker(s): C. C. Beck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Jerry; Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain); Herman (villain); Endicott (villain)
Synopsis: Sivana creates a new potion that has the capability to change someone into another person, with another brain, and he intends to use it on Billy in order to rid himself of his enemy, Captain Marvel, and become the rightful ruler of the universe!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #4 published April 2003
as Sivana's Strange Chemical Potion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10.75
Disclose Notes: The last 1/4 of page 11 is an illustrated promtional advertisement for Whiz Comics, and pictures head views of Golden Arrow, Spy Smasher, Lance O'Casey, Dr. Voodoo and Ibis.

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