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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published July 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Wendell Crowley

Cover Details

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Genre superhero
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza

1 page Contents page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword

9 page Marvel Family story "Mary Batson's Inheritance"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Duke of Batson (first appearance); Dutchess of Batson (first appearance; villain; no relation of either to Marvel Family)
Genre superhero
Pencils Pete Costanza?
Inks Pete Costanza?

Half page Judge Smudge filler "Good Provider"

Genre gag
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

Half page Lazy Lee story "Not On His Time"

Genre gag

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Sinister Attractor"

Characters Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; I: Dr. Gans (V)
Genre superhero
Pencils Bud Thompson?
Inks Bud Thompson?

7 page Mary Marvel story "The Town That Couldn't Lie"

Characters Mary Marvel (Mary Batson); Elias Fibber
Synopsis Mary follows an unsavory character named Elias Fibber into a small town called, Trueville, a town that was known for never telling a lie. She discovers Fibber is after the town charter, which is worth a fortune.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder?
Notes Much info added by Craig Delich (September 1, 2007).
Reprinted in Mary Marvel Fanzine (Mike Bromberg, 2004 series) #6 (June 2006)

2 page text story "The Sheriff of Timbershoot"

Genre western
Script John Osgood (signed)
Letters typeset

4 page Peewee Pete story "Half Baked"

Genre humor

Half page Judge Smudge story "Caught In Court"

Genre gag
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Man In the Mirror"

Characters Captain Marvel (Billy Batson); I: Dr. Eric Vodal
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck?
Inks Pete Costanza?