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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published November 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 credits "Contents Page"

9 page Marvel Family story "The Marvel Family Curse"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; William Batson (first appearance; ancestor of Billy Batson; flashback)
Genre superhero
Script William Woolfolk
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes writer credit via Martin O'Hearn
Reprinted in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-35

Half page Lazy Lee story "Ringing In His Head"

Genre Gags

Half page Judge Smudge story "Business Man"

Genre Gags
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "Freddy Freeman Plays a Part"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Legs Spade (first appearance; villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

2 page Snortville Sneeze story

Genre humor

7 page Mary Marvel story "The Tornado Man"

Characters Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Binder ?
Inks Jack Binder ?

2 page text story "No Place For Heroes"

Script R. C. Kraus
Letters typeset

4 page Peewee Pete story "Sunken Hopes"

9 page Captain Marvel story "The Future Car"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza