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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published November 18, 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Rod Reed?

Cover Details - "Captain Marvel Jr. Sinks the Japs"

Characters Captain Marvel Jr.
Genre superhero
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #17; in The Shazam! Family Archives #1 (2006)

3 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Origin of Captain Marvel, Jr. Retold"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman](origin retold); Guest Stars: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Shazam; Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger](villain, flashback)
Synopsis While they are fishing, Freddy's grandfather rescues the nefarious Captain Nazi, who promptly kills the grandfather and severely injures Freddy Freeman. Captain Marvel rescues the young boy and takes him to see Shazam, who gives some of the Mighty Mortal's powers to the boy, who then becomes Captain Marvel Junior!
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder?
Pencils Al Carreno
Inks Al Carreno
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #17; in Shazam! Family Archives, The (DC, 2006 series) #1 (2006).

17 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "Wings Over Dazaggar"

Characters Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Monsieur Renald (death); Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger](villain); Adolf Hitler (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis Captain Marvel Jr. goes to Dazaggar in Africa to fight Captain Nazi and prevent him from moving plans ahead there to use gigantic "winged castles" to invade the Western Hemisphere.
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Carreno
Inks Al Carreno
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #17; in The Shazam! Family Archives #1 (2006); in Grand Slam Comics (Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited, 1941 series) #v2#3 [15] [script only]

12 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Shadow That Walked"

Characters Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Jerry Fladd (reporter, death); The Walking Shadow [Yvonne Sergo aka Yvonne Blake](villain, introduction, death); Shoes McCann (villain); Spike (villain, death)
Synopsis Captain Marvel Jr. involves himself in a case where a criminal, known as The Walking Shadow, is causing a crime wave, threatening to become the King of Crime, a title he may well own if he can locate the Dumont Treasure.
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Carreno
Inks Al Carreno
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #17; in Shazam! Family Archives, The (DC, 2006 series) #1

6 page Willie Wynn story "The Bomb Proof Shirt"

Characters Willie Wynn (introduction)
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #17

1 page Mad Artist story

Genre gag
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #17

10 page Captain Marvel Jr. story "The Case of the Crippled Kidnappers"

Characters Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mayor Horton; Slim (villain); Ma (villain); Al (villain)
Synopsis Captain Marvel Jr. gets involved in a fake accident racket, in which young cripples were drugged, then used in certain fake accidents that would net the gang millions in blackmail payments.
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Carreno
Inks Al Carreno
Notes Sequence added by Craig Delich 2007-4-15. Story title taken from the Archive.
Reprinted in The Shazam! Family Archives #1 (2006)

12 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Cracked Safecracker"

Characters Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Bull Bimmens (ex-villain); Lefty (villain)
Synopsis Captain Marvel Jr. saves an older couple from being run over, and discovers that they are to be forced into living in a poorhouse unless their son can be found to help them out. But when he sees a picture of the son, Captain Marvel Jr. recognizes him as a noted safecracker. Still, he brings about a reunion and Bull decides to reform.
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Carreno
Inks Al Carreno
Notes Story title taken from the contents page.
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #17; in The Shazam! Family Archives #1 (2006); in Grand Slam Comics (Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited, 1941 series) #v2#3 [15] [script only]