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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published January 1, 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Rod Reed

Cover Details

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel; Santa Claus
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck

1 page credits "Contents page"

Letters typeset

16 page Captain Marvel story "The Phantom of the Department Store"

Characters Captain Marvel; Steamboat; V: The Phantom (Dunkel)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza?
Inks Pete Costanza?

12 page Captain Marvel story "The Training of Mary Marvel"

Characters Captain Marvel; GS: Mary Marvel (next app. in Wow Comics #9)
Synopsis An eminent professor is made a dupe by a phony scientist/explorer named Greaseley, who claims to have brought live native creatures back from the planet Venus, and togther, Mary & Billy [as the Marvels] put a stop to this scam.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Marc Swayze [Mary Marvel figures]
Inks Marc Swayze [Mary Marvel figures]
Notes Some reprint info and synopsis added by Craig Delich (Jan. 14, 2007).
Reprinted In Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-21 (Summer 1973); in Mary Marvel Fanzine (Mike Bromberg, 2004 series) #4 (October 2005)

10 page Captain Marvel story "His Achilles Heel"

Characters Captain Marvel; V: Blitzenwitz [a Hitler double, intro]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza?
Inks Pete Costanza?

2 page text story "The Wizard's Mark"

Genre occult
Script Jim Kjelgaard (signed)
Letters trpeset

6 page Captain Kidd story "The Tire Thief"

Characters Captain Kidd
Genre humor
Script Al Liederman
Pencils Al Liederman
Inks Al Liederman

10 page Captain Marvel story "The Ego Exchanger"

Characters Captain Marvel; Steamboat
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza?
Inks Pete Costanza?

1 page Comix Cards filler

Characters Hopalong Cassidy; Ibis the Invincible
Genre western; superhero
Notes Back cover.