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Issue Details

Issue #28
Published July 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Otto Binder?

Cover Details

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

1 page none credits "Contents Page"

Letters typeset

13 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "Hitlers Headquarters of Horror"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Shazam (cameo); Frank Edsel; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Martha (undergound Allied agent); Helen (Allied double-agent) Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger](villain); double for Adolf Hitler (villain); Hans (Nazi soldier, villain); Major Glomm (villain)
Synopsis Captain Marvel Jr. travels to Nazi Germany to find and rescue Frank Edsel, the key man in American production of planes, tanks and guns, from the clutches of Captain Nazi in the infamous Black Castle.
Genre superhero
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Notes Story title taken from blurb at end of issue #27 and this issue's contents page.
Reprinted in Shazam! Family Archives, The (DC, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

13 page Bulletman story "The Baffling Mystery of the Bouncer"

Characters Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Bulletgirl [Susan Kent]; Sergeant Kent; The Bouncer (villain, introduction)
Synopsis The Flying Detectives must track down and stop an escaped criminal known only as the Bouncer, who uses strong springs attached to his shoes to leap high distances, and who, along with his gang, murder only men with the last name of Smith and steal just one tooth from their mouths!
Genre superhero
Notes Story title taken from the contents page.

8 page Minute Man story "The Fuehrer Sends a Killer"

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

2 page none text story "Night Ride"

Script Douglas Mann (signed)
Letters typeset

7 page El Carim story "The Gamble With Fate"

Characters El Carim; Fate
Genre occult; superhero
Notes Story title taken from the contents.

7 page Buck Jones, Frontier Marshall story "Robbery of the River Boat"

Characters Buck Jones
Genre western
Notes Story title taken from the contents page.

7 page Companions Three story "Circus Chills and Thrills"

Characters Companions Three [Don, Nifty, Spike]
Genre adventure
Pencils Kin Platt?
Inks Kin Platt?
Notes Story title taken from the contents page.