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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published March 1948
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 Jack Binder?
Inks Pete Costanza?

1 page credits "Contents Page"

9 page Marvel Family story "The Trio of Terror"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Satyr (first appearance); Hydra (first appearance); Argus (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Reprinted in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-27 (1974)

Half page Judge Smudge story "Memories"

Genre Gags
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

Half page Lazy Lee story "Specifically Speaking"

Genre Gags

7 page Mary Marvel story "Tune Trouble"

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

2 page Kanvasback story "Born Athlete"

Genre sports

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "The Flying Eye"

Characters Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Sivana, Jr. (villain); Man-From-Mars (first appearance; villain); a Frankensteinian monster (first appearance; villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

4 page Peewee Pete story "Easy As Taking Candy From a Baby"

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

2 page text story "The Space Race"

Characters Eando Chesler
Script Rod Reed [as Cy N. Sphixon]
Letters typeset

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Science Crimes"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sivana (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza