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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published April 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Wendell Crowley [editor]; Will Lieberson [Executive Editor]

Cover Details - "The Marvel Family Battles The Sivana Family"

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

1 page Contents page credits

9 page Marvel Family story "The Sivana Family Strikes at the Marvel Family - Part 1"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Uncle Marvel [Uncle Dudley]; Shazam; Dr. Sivana [Thaddeus Bodog Sivana]; Georgia Sivana; Sivana Jr.
Synopsis Having dropped out of sight for some time, the Sivana Family tries to measure the power of the "Shazam" lightning, but fails. However, Junior discovers the existence of an element named Protium that would provide the power needed to do so, so the trio heads for the Rock of Eternity to travel into the past and future top secure it, something the wizard Shazam warns the Marvel Family of.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich on September 1, 2007.
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #12; in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn; in Shazam! and the Shazam Family! Annual (DC, 2002 series) #1

6 page Mary Marvel story "The Sivana Family Strikes at the Marvel Family - Part 2: The Sinking of Atlantis"

Characters Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; V: Georgia Sivana; Professor Chal-Patzun
Synopsis Mary travels into the past----to the lost city of Atlantis, seeking out Georgia Sivana, who has already found the source of Protium at Professor Chal-Patzun's. She grabs it and Mary Batson as her prisoner, and heads back to the present time.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Binder
Inks Jack Binder
Notes This chapter only also reprinted in Mike Bromberg's Marvel Marvel Fanzine #6 (June, 2007). Synopsis added by Craig Delich (September 1, 2007).
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #12; in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn; in Shazam! and the Shazam Family! Annual (DC, 2002 series) #1

4 page Kanvasback filler "The Spectacular Spectator"

Characters Kanvasback; Mal Arkey
Genre sports; gag

2 page text story "The Money In the Shoe"

Genre adventure
Script John C. Adler (signed)
Letters typeset

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Sivana Family Strikes at the Marvel Family - Part 3: Captain Marvel Faces Danger In the Deep"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; V: Dr. Sivana [Thaddeus Bodog Sivana]; Dr. Charles Patterson
Synopsis Captain Marvel follows Sivana back to the present as the evil scientist heads for the lab of Dr.Patterson, seeking out the element Neutrium, also needed to get power greater than the Shazam lightning. Sivana gets what he wants, kidnapping Billy Batson and murdering the Professor.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich (September 1, 2007).
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #12; in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn; in Shazam! and the Shazam Family! Annual (DC, 2002 series) #1

6 page Captain Marvel Jr. story "The Sivana Family Strikes at the Marvel Family - Part 4: Atlantis Rises Again"

Characters Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; V: Sivana Jr.; Chass Passon
Synopsis As Captain Marvel Junior heads into the future, the descendant of Professor Chal-Patzun discovers his ancestor's lab and the fact that the Protium has changed into Electrium, which can be used to raise ancient Atlantis. But Sivana Jr. knocks out Freddy Freeman and Chass Passon, grabs the element and returns to the present with it and Freeman.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Bud Thompson
Inks Bud Thompson
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich (September 1, 2007).
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #12; in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn; in Shazam! and the Shazam Family! Annual (DC, 2002 series) #1

9 page Marvel Family story "The Sivana Family Strikes at the Marvel Family - Part 5: The Marvel Family in The Battle of the Age"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; V: Dr. Sivana [Thaddeus Bodog Sivana]; V: Georgia Sivana; V: Sivana Jr.
Synopsis Sivana, greeting his nefarious children with their charges, takes the three elements: Protieum, Neutrium and Electrium, mixes them together and with them creates a shell around the Earth, preventing the Shazam lightning from changing Billy, Mary and Freedy into the Marvel Family.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich (September 1, 2007).
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #12; in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn; in Shazam! and the Shazam Family! Annual (DC, 2002 series) #1

6 page advertisement "Various"

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Notes [inside front cover] Hopkinson Corp.: Baton; [13] Mary Marvel Enterprises: Dress; [49] Charles Atlas; [50] Projector Sales; [inside back cover] Michigan Bulb Company: Flower bulbs; [back cover] Eveready Batteries