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Issue Details

Issue #48
Published March 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Will Lieberson

Cover Details

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Genre superhero
Pencils Gene MacDonald?
Inks Gene MacDonald?

1 page credits "Contents page"

13 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Paradise For Thieves"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Gene MacDonald?
Inks Gene MacDonald?

7 page Hopalong Cassidy story "The Stagecoach Robbery"

Genre western
Pencils Harry Parkhurst
Inks Harry Parkhurst

2 page Hoodoo Hannigan text story "Hoodoo Hannigan: Ch. 20: The Human Bomb"

Characters Hoodoo Hannigan
Script Joseph J. Millard
Letters typeset

8 page Bulletman story "The Mimic and the Mite"

Characters Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Bulletboy [Tod Drake] (first appearance; origin)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Binder?
Inks Jack Binder?

1 page Captain Marvel public service announcement "There's No Such Thing As Waste Paper"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck?
Inks C. C. Beck?
Notes paper-drive feature

10 page Minute Man story "The Barrage Mirage"

Characters Minute Man [Jack Weston]; The Purple Spy (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre superhero
Pencils Phil Bard
Inks Phil Bard