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Issue Details

Issue #22
Published April 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Wendell Crowley

Cover Details

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck?
Inks Pete Costanza

1 page credits "Contents Page"

9 page Marvel Family story "The Triple Threat"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Mr. Who [Czar Gargan] (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza

4 page Peewee Pete story "The Daring Little Man On the Flying Trapeze"

7 page Mary Marvel story "The Mystery of the Leprechauns"

Characters Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Colan and two other leprechauns (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Binder?
Inks Jack Binder?

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Return of the Suicide"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

Half page Judge Smudge story "Fine State of Affairs"

Genre Gags
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

4 page Captain Kid story "On a Merry-Go-Round"

Script Al Liederman
Pencils Al Liederman
Inks Al Liederman

2 page text story "The Red Fox Treasure"

Script Rod Reed [as Clement Good]
Letters typeset

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

Half page Lazy Lee story "Piece Work"

Genre Gags

6 page Captain Marvel story "The Radioactive Man"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; The Radioactive Man (first appearance; villain)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza