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Issue Details

Issue #38
Published August 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing J. B. Magill

Cover Details

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

1 page credits "Contents page"

9 page Captain Marvel story "The Man Nobody Loved"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza?
Inks Pete Costanza?

2 page text story "Golden Soot"

Script Thomas Jameson
Letters typeset

8 page Captain Marvel story "Down On the Farm"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck?
Inks C. C. Beck?

10 page Captain Marvel story "The Chattanooga Ghost"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Ghost [Buddy] (first appearance; a nutty kid)
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck?
Inks C. C. Beck?
Notes City story: Chattanooga, TN

Half page Sergeant Sandy story

Genre Gags

Half page Dopey Danny Dee story

Genre Gags
Pencils George Marko
Inks George Marko

1 page Captain Marvel activity "Missing Face Contest No. 3"

Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Notes contest

1 page Captain Kid story "Cheap Skates"

Pencils Al Liederman?
Inks Al Liederman?

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Monster Society of Evil Ch. 17: Mr. Mind's Movie Madness"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mr. Mind (villain); Herkimer (first appearance; villain; crocodile man); Sylvester (first appearance; villain; crocodile man); Marmaduke (first appearance; villain; crocodile man)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Reprinted in Monster Society of Evil, The (Hawk Books, 1989 series) #1