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Issue Details

Issue #117
Published January 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Virginia Provisiero

Cover Details - "Versus Sivana's Science"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sivana; Golden Arrow (inset)
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

1 page Carnation Malted Milk advertisement "Rocky Lane Takes to the Air!"

Characters Rocky Lane
Notes Ad in sequential art form.

9 page Captain Marvel story "Versus Sivana's Science"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Dr. Sivana (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

Half page text article "Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc."

Letters typeset

Half page Wilbur the Waiter filler "Chicken Croquette"

Genre Gag

Half page The Captain Marvel Club promo (ad from the publisher) "The world's mightiest mortal heads the world's mightiest club!"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]

2 page A Wicky and O'Shawnessy Story text story "Dead-Eye Wick"

Characters Wicky; O'Shawnessy
Genre adventure
Script Rod Reed
Pencils ? (illustration)
Inks ? (illustration)
Letters typeset

Half page Dubble Bubble advertisement "That dumb-bunny brother of mine missed another perfect pass!"

Half page public service announcement "Put more opportunity in your future..."

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Notes U.S. Savings Bonds

6 page Golden Arrow story "The Cattle Fraud"

Characters Golden Arrow
Genre western

Half page filler "Comix Cards"

Characters Gabby Hayes

7 page Lance O'Casey story "The Plight of Homer Whittington, Jr."

Characters Lance O'Casey; Homer Whittington, Jr.
Genre adventure

1 page Doc Sorebones filler "Clean Sweep"

Characters Doc Sorebones
Genre gag

1 page Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil advertisement "The Case of the 50 Year Old Clue"

Notes Ad in sequential art form.

Half page Wilbur the Waiter filler "Is Fowled Up!"

Characters Wilbur
Genre gag

5 page The Culture Corner filler "How to Bow"

Characters Croucher K. Conk
Genre humor
Script Basil Wolverton
Pencils Basil Wolverton
Inks Basil Wolverton
Colors Basil Wolverton
Reprinted in Culture Corner, The (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) #[nn]

4 page Freshman Freddy story "A Course in Salesmanship!"

Characters Freddy
Genre teen; humor

7 page Ibis the Invincible story "Apollyon's Book"

Characters Ibis; Taia; Professor Hertz (death); Brane (villain, death); Apollyon the Destroyer (villain, death)
Synopsis A brilliant student of a noted professor obtains a book from the crypt of a long dead Pharoah, which contains the most infernal evil rites ever practiced upon the earth, and Ibis must find a way to stop him as well as Apollyon whom he has called forth.
Genre occult; superhero
Reprinted in Men of Mystery (AC, 1999 series) #81 (2010)

1 page Happy Hal filler "Medical Exam"

Characters Happy Hal
Genre gag

1 page The Electric Game Co., Inc. advertisement "New! Jim Prentice...Amazing...Exciting..Electric Football"

Notes Ad in sequential art form.