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Issue: Captain Marvel Adventures #42 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1945
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Issues: #42 of 147 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 7
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): J. B. Magill
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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
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Season's Greetings

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset; ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
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Pages: 1
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Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Captain Marvel in St. Paul, Minnesota

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Slick Fokus; George Hammond; Leadpipe Malone; Vic Tschida; Mayor Johnny McDonough; Jenny Carlson; Brooks Henderson; Billy Batson
First Line: Ulps! Captain Marvel!
Synopsis: George Hammond has invented a camera that can take pictures from the future, and dishonest photographer Slick Fokus plans a bank robbery for a time when he learns from Hammond's camera that Captain Marvel and most of the city will be on the other side of town.
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Pages: 9.67
Disclose Notes: City story: St. Paul, MN

Mayor McDonough; Tschida, Carlson, and Henderson were all real-life citizens of St. Paul.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dr. Les Paine; Captain Kid
First Line: I have to see th' dentist right away - there's no time to lose!!
Synopsis: Captain Kid barges into a dentist's office and demands to have a tooth pulled - not from his mouth, but from his friend's.
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Pages: 1
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Thirty Fathom Courage

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Steve Lawson
First Line: The squat diving tug, Neptune...
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Pages: 2
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Race with Death!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Adventures of "R.C." and Quickie; Royal Crown Cola
Character(s): R. C.; Quickie
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Full page sequential art ad for Royal Crown Cola.
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Captain Marvel In the World of If

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Adolf Hitler (villain); Hermann Goering (villain); Josef Goebbels (villain); Professor I. Q. Putter; Carl (Nazi spy); Billy Batson
First Line: I'm too tired to yell...
Synopsis: Professor Putter has invented a machine that can predict different possibilities, but his assistant turns out to be a Nazi spy who wants to know what would happen if Captain Marvel joined Hitler. Even worse, that future seems to be coming true!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Best of Captain Marvel #[nn] published January 1975
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Pages: 11.33
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In Union There Is Strength!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Captain Marvel Club membership form.
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He's Up at the Crack of His Back!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dopey Danny Dee
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: wordless strip
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dopey Danny Dee
First Line: Gee, Danny, you look worried!
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Volto from Mars; Grape Nuts Flakes
Character(s): Volto from Mars
First Line: Look! That tree right across the road!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Full page sequential art ad for Grape Nut Flakes.
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The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 21: The Unholy Hydra!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mr. Mind (villain); the Hydra (first appearance; villain; death); Dr. Neon; Billy Batson
First Line: The last chapter closed as Captain Marvel was wrecking the plant...
Synopsis: Mr. Mind creates a new monster that grows a new head whenever one is cut off. Captain Marvel manages to turn the heads against each other, then captures Mr. Mind, but a masked stranger enters and knocks Billy out.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Monster Society of Evil #[nn] published January 1989
as The Monster Society of Evil Ch. 21: The Unholy Hydra! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Paper Packs a Punch!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Art was previously credited to C. C. Beck ?
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gordon Fawcett
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Captain Marvel and the Plot Against Christmas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Gouge Smith; Happy Smith; Jolly Smith; Sterling Morris (cameo); Billy Batson
First Line: I'll not stand for that tree in my house...
Synopsis: Billy meets brothers Happy and Jolly Smith, who want to give toys from their factory to the children at the Creedmore Orphanage, but their miserly older brother Gouge refuses to consider it. It's up to Captain Marvel to persuade Gouge to change his mind so that the orphans can have a merry Christmas.
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Pages: 8

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