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Issue Details

Issue #22
Published March 26, 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Rod Reed ?

Cover Details - "Captain Marvel Battles Shipyard Sabotage!"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks Pete Costanza ?

1 page credits "Contents page"

15 page Captain Marvel story "Shipyard Sabotage"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Adolf Hitler (villain); Hermann Goering (villain); Josef Goebbels (villain); Benito Mussolini (villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Pete Costanza?
Inks Pete Costanza?

12 page Captain Marvel story "The Voodoo Show Boat"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sivana (villain); Steamboat; Showboat Mammy (Steamboat's grandmother; first appearance)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck

12 page Captain Marvel story "The Monster Society of Evil Ch. 1: The Pearl of Peril"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mr. Mind (first appearance; as voice on radio); Monster Society of Evil [Mr. Mind; Captain Nazi; Sivana; Mr. Banjo; Ibac; unidentified others] (first appearance; villains)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Notes first part of 25-chapter serial
Reprinted in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn (1977); in Monster Society of Evil, The (Hawk Books, 1989 series) #1

6 page Captain Kid story "Ski Champion"

Script Al Liederman
Pencils Al Liederman
Inks Al Liederman

2 page text story "Fog and Fury"

Script Nathaniel Nitkin
Letters typeset

1 page Little Albert filler

Genre Gags

10 page Captain Marvel story "The Revolt of the Comics"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; I: Clubman and the Bird, Little Woeful Polly, Zartan, Hash Borden, Barry (and the Pirates), Little Stoop, etc.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza?
Inks Pete Costanza?

1 page Comix Cards (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix*

Characters Mr. Scarlet and Minute Man