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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published February 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing France Herron?

Cover Details

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr.; Captain Marvel; Shazam
Genre superhero
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Shazam! Family Archives, The (DC, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Contents Page"

13 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "Captain Nazis' Assassination Plot"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (cameo); Rastus (chauffeuer); Herr Burke (death); Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger](villain)
Synopsis Captain Nazi kills an underground British agent, attends a secret conference meeting, and then sets out to kill the President of the United States before Captain Marvel Jr. can stop him.
Genre superhero
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Notes Freddy becomes a newsboy in this story.
Reprinted in Shazam! Family Archives, The (DC, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

14 page Bulletman story "The Weeper: The Murderer Who Mourns His Victims!"

Characters Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Bulletgirl [Susan Kent]; The Weeper [Mortimer Gloom] (villain, introduction)
Synopsis The Flying Detectives face a circus performer, formerly known as the Crying Clown, or Weeping Willie, who had been fired for dishonesty and now is carrying out revenge crimes.
Genre superhero
Pencils Binder studio
Inks Binder studio
Notes The last tier of panels is an illustrated ad for the next issue of Bulletman Comics.
Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #74 (2008)

8 page Minute Man story "The Walking Dead Man"

Characters Minute Man [Jack Weston]
Genre superhero
Pencils Phil Bard
Inks Phil Bard

7 page El Carim story "See the Freaks Free"

Characters El Carim
Genre occult; superhero
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska

1 page Barney story

Characters Barney
Genre humor

7 page Buck Jones, Frontier Marshall story "Arizona Bound"

Characters Buck Jones
Genre western
Notes Adapted from the movie, "Arizona Bound".

2 page none text story "Double For Death"

Genre mystery
Script Joseph J. Millard (signed)
Letters typeset

8 page Companions Three story "Battle With the Kraken"

Characters Companions Three [Don, Nifty, Spike]
Genre adventure
Pencils Kin Platt?
Inks Kin Platt?