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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published September 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Wendell Crowley (editor); Will Lieberson (Executive Editor); Sidonie M. Gruenberg (Consulting Editor); Prof. H.W. Zorbaugh (Editorial Advisory Board); Dr. Ernest G. Osborne (Editorial Advisory Board); Major Al Williams (Editorial Advisory Board)

Cover Details - "The Witches' Tale "

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck?
Inks Pete Costanza?
Letters typeset

1 page credits "The Marvel Family Is Just Bubbling Over with Excitement! [Contents Page]"

Letters Typeset

7 page Marvel Family story "The Marvel Family in The Witches' Tale"

Characters Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]]; The Witches [Oswena (villain); Mirandy (villain); unnamed witch (villain); Elviry [aka Ellie Hawkins]]
Synopsis The Witches try to track down their fourth witch, Elviry, who is living in the city under the name Ellie Hawkins.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder ?
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza
Notes With Elviry and other witches possibly from Whiz #?. Otto Binder writer credit comes from the GCD index for Shazam! #3, though it is not credited in the actual issue. [Mike Nielsen 4/2010]
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #3 (June 1973); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #3/1974

7 page Captain Marvel Jr. story "Captain Marvel Jr. and The Knife of Jade"

Characters Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Juan Roberts; Mr. Kane; Mr. Parker
Genre superhero
Pencils Mac Raboy?

2 page text story "Tough Job"

Script Claude Dunnagan

7 page Mary Marvel story "Don Quixote Rides Again"

Characters Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Jonathan Quixote (supposed descendant of Don Quixote; Intro); Double X Dawson (Villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Marc Swazye?
Inks Marc Swayze?

7 page Captain Marvel story "Captain Marvel and Sivana's Vampire"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Dr. Sivana [Thaddeus Bodog Sivana] (Villain); The Vampire of Krasno Castle (Intro; Death); Dr. Walsh
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck?
Inks Pete Costanza

3 page advertisement "Various"

Notes [inside front cover] Michigan Bulb Company: Flower bulbs; [inside back cover] Mary Marvel Enterprises: dress; [back cover] Charles Atlas