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Issue Details

Issue #139
Published December 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Wendell Crowley

Cover Details

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

7 page Captain Marvel story "The Red Crusher"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; The Red Crusher (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck

Half page Tightwad Tad story "Exchanges Words"

Genre Gags

Half page Saxton the Saxophonist story

Genre Gags

2 page Jon Jarl text story "The Hawkmen"

Characters Jon Jarl
Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder [as Eando Binder]
Letters typeset

4 page Captain Kid story "Jinx Day"

Pencils Al Liederman?
Inks Al Liederman?

6 page Captain Marvel story "Spider's Doom"

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

4 page Windy story "The Fishing Dog"

Genre Gags
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

6 page Captain Marvel story "Captain Marvel Fights Niatpac Levram!"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Wizzo the Wizard (first appearance); Niatpac Levram (first appearance; a mirror-image Captain Marvel)
Synopsis Wizzo uses magic to animate Captain Marvel's mirror image in an attempt to become a master magician.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #2 (April 1973); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #4/1974