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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published March 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing France Herron

Cover Details - "Death By Radio"

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

1 page Contents Page credits "untitled"

Letters typeset

15 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "Death By Radio"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Captain Marvel (image); Harold Pitwell (Wall Street broker, death); Filmore Douglas (business associate of Pitwell, death); Umbersquire (business associate of Pitwell and Douglas); Mr. Macabre [Filpot] (villain, introduction); Sniper (villain)
Synopsis A former business associate, of the firm Pitwell, Douglas, Umbersquire and Filpot, ousted from the company because he stole a few dollars from the company, swears revenge on his former business partners.
Genre superhero
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Notes Story title taken from cover and blurb from previous issue. Although Mr. Macabre apparently dies in the story, he does return in Master Comics #26.
Reprinted in Shazam! Family Archives, The (DC, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

14 page Bulletman story "Slick Jordan, Cutthroat Counterfeiter"

Characters Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Bulletgirl [Susan Kent]; Slick Jordan (villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Blum (pg. 8)
Notes Story title taken from the contents page.

8 page Minute Man story "The Ghost of Sir Francis Drake"

Characters Minute Man [Jack Weston]
Genre superhero
Pencils Phil Bard
Inks Phil Bard
Notes contents page title

7 page El Carim story "A Wager With Fate"

Characters El Carim; Fate (introduction)
Genre occult; superhero
Pencils Mark Schneider
Inks Mark Schneider
Notes El Carim's birth year, 1913, was given in this story.

7 page Buck Jones, Frontier Marshall story "The Hooded Hoodlum"

Characters Buck Jones
Genre western
Pencils Alex Blum?
Notes Story title taken from the contents page.

2 page none text story "Dead Man's Doublecross"

Script John Broome (signed)
Letters typeset

7 page Companions Three story "The Lure of the Voodoo"

Characters Companions Three [Don, Nifty, Spike]
Genre adventure
Pencils Clem Weisbecker?
Inks Clem Weisbecker?