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Issue Details

Issue	#55
Published	January 1951
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	Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks	Kurt Schaffenberger

10 page Marvel Family story "The Man Who Sank a City"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; The City Sinker [Bart Kranz] (first appearance; villain)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks	Kurt Schaffenberger

4 page Headline Harry story "The Goofy Assignment"

Genre	humor
Script	Howard Boughner
Pencils	Howard Boughner
Inks	Howard Boughner

7 page Mary Marvel story "The Miser of Resources"

Characters	Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; King Krag (first appearance; villain)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder

7 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "Sir Reginald and the Beastman"

Characters	Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Prof. Edgewise; The Beastman [Sir Reginald Framingham] (first appearance; villain)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder?
Notes	story "borrows" from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Half page Lazy Lee story "Losing His Sleep"

Genre

Gags

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

4 page Captain Kid story "The 88 Keys To Success"

Script	Al Liederman
Pencils	Al Liederman
Inks	Al Liederman

2 page text story "The Laughing Ghost"

Script	Morgan Trent
Letters	typeset

8 page Captain Marvel story "The Governor of Space"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Governor Kooblah (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	C. C. Beck