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Issue: Captain Marvel Adventures #16 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1942
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Issues: #16 of 147 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/18/1942
Volume: 3
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (6 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, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, 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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Uncle Sam
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art was previously credited to C. C. Beck.
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Capt. Marvel Presents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Alaskan Adventure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (assistants)
Inker(s): ? (assistants)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Billy Batson; Sterling Morris; Olaf Smorgasbord; Hissyu (Japanese agent); Klondike Mike; Missyu (Japanese agent)
First Line: American heroes are making history everywhere in the world..
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCaptain Marvel [Mighty Midget Comic] #11 published January 1942
as Captain Marvel and the Alaskan Adventure [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Art credits per P. C. Hamerlinck in Alter Ego #147 (July 2017). Possible Keats credit due to him being confirmed as being on staff for the Beck-Costanza Studio at this time doing backgrounds and figures.
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The Trumpet of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Billy Batson; Steamboat Bill; Terwilliger
First Line: It was only a trumpet...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: A digitized picture from the Ezra Jack Keats Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi shows Keats working in a studio with Mark Swayze, C.C. Beck, and Dave Berg drawing Captain Marvel stories. The splash page and second page of this story can be seen on Keats drawing table being referenced for what looks like a paste-up drawing (see: https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_c862af24-fad0-4f42-afac-9f7de975249a/?fbclid=IwAR34MArvJzhQsQkmmbVsa7ndMYr48D09xYUDnKf6DsP2SKQTTvPHRN6wz2M, retrieved 19 March 2021).
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A Dead Jap Is a Good Jap!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Tony Fear; Ainsworth
First Line: Tony Fear's job was killig bugs from the air!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Always Rings the Bell!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Whiz Comics
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo for Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series).
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The World's Mightiest Mistake

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ? (Captain Marvel art staff)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Billy Batson; Steamboat Bill; Steamboat's girlfriend
First Line: Gaze into my eyes
Synopsis: A hypnotist does his magic on Steamboat and fills him with a burning desire to become an ebony Captain Marvel!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Art credits by Craig Delich, per Brian Cremins in Alter Ego #144 (January 2017). Possible Keats credit due to him being confirmed as being on staff for the Beck-Costanza Studio at this time doing backgrounds and figures.
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Paste the Axis Contest

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Captain Kid; Betty Mae; Rattlesnake Ike; Sheriff Puddinspine
First Line: They don't come any bigger than Rattlesnake Ike...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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In Mexico

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Billy Batson; Steamboat Bill; Herr Schmaltz and other Axis agents (villains); Ben Growler; Chiquita; Biscardo
First Line: Folks, this is Ben Growler...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Art credits per Marc Swayze.

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