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Issue: Captain Marvel Adventures #18 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1942
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Issues: #18 of 147 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/13/1942
Volume: 3
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (8 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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Original Artwork
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Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr. Proudly Present Mary Marvel

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Shazam! Family Archives #1 published November 2006
In Content Item: FlagShazam! and the Shazam Family! Annual #1 published September 2002
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Contents Page

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Captain Marvel Introduces Mary Marvel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson, aka Mary Bromfield] (Billy Batson's twin sister, introduction, origin); Billy Batson; Sterling Morris; Percy Pill; Sarah Primm (Billy and Mary's nurse, death); Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; The Wizard Shazam
First Line: Folks! Here's a big surprise!...Meet my sister Mary!
Synopsis: Billy accidently discovers that a young girl appearing on the Station W.H.I.Z. radio show, "The Mental Marvel Quiz," possesses half of a strange locket that he has the other half to, and that her former nurse confirms the fact that Billy and Mary are actually twins!
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In Issue: FlagThe Shazam! Family Archives #1 published November 2006
In Content Item: FlagShazam! #8 published December 1973
as The Original Captain Marvel Introduces Mary Marvel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShazam! #5/1974 published May 1974
as Dette er: Mary Marvel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShazam from the Forties to the Seventies #[nn] published September 1977
as Captain Marvel Introduces Mary Marvel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShazam! and the Shazam Family! Annual #1 published September 2002
as Captain Marvel Introduces Mary Marvel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12.33
Disclose Notes: Sarah Primm lived at 14 Elm Street.

The last 2/3 of page 13 is a portrait of Mary Marvel, drawn by Marc Swayze.

The art is totally by Swayze according to P. C. Hamerlinck in Alter Ego #147 (2017). Mac Raboy credits for Captain Marvel Jr. figures removed.

Swayze also drew Otto Binder as one of the bad guys on story page reproduced in Alter Ego #147 (July 2017).
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Giggle Gags
First Line: Co-operation would solve most of our problems.
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Pages: 1
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Captain Marvel Fights a Nightmare

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Steamboat; Sterling Morris; Billy Batson; Professor Archimedes Bram
First Line: Did you ever see a dream walking, folks?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Art was previously credited to C. C. Beck ?.
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Killer in the North

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, drama
Character(s): John Macfane; Red Andrews (crook)
First Line: John Macfane, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The What-Not Adventure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Billy Batson; Sterling Morris; Mrs. Thorntree; Brutus Duval (crook)
First Line: Let him have it, Brutus!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Swayze writer credit based on interview w/him in Alter Ego #56 (February, 2006).
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Adventures In Stamps
First Line: Stamp that started a war!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Tanks A Lot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Captain Kid
First Line: The soldier was very kind...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: War of Jenkins' ear
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This filler says that over 7,000 Captain Marvel drawings are published annually.
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The 3 Wishes of Tim Tucker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; The Wizard Shazam; Billy Batson; Steamboat; Tim Tucker; Professor Murder (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: When everybody says - They're swell!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo for creating a complete collection of Comix Cards.
Both on the inside back cover and back cover.
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6 Captain Marvel Jr.

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (various)
Inker(s): ? various)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Card #6 on the back cover with descriptive and promo text on the inside back cover.
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11 Bulletgirl

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (various)
Inker(s): ? various)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Card #11 on the back cover with descriptive and promo text on the inside back cover.

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