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Issue Details

Issue #72
Published June 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Wendell Crowley

Cover Details

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

6 page Marvel Family story "The Pandora Pirates Ch. 1: The Treasure Danger"

Characters Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]]; Sterling Morris; Barbary Pirates
Synopsis Sterling Morris finds a magic bottle that leads him, along with Billy, Freddy and Mary, to what they hope is a buried treasure. Unfortunately there is no treasure, but they manage to release the Barbary Pirates.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #13 (July-August 1974); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #3/1975

2 page text story "Crime On the Speedway"

Script Daniel Sheldon
Letters typeset

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

Half page Boxcar Benny story "Doubtful Strategy"

Genre Gags

4 page Headline Harry story "Front Page Foolishness"

Genre humor
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

6 page Marvel Family story "The Pandora Pirates Ch. 2: The Pirate Plunder"

Characters Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]]; Sterling Morris; Barbary Pirates
Synopsis Sterling Morris finds a magic hat that turns him into the leader of the Barbary Pirates.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #13 (July-August 1974); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #3/1975

4 page Friend Maker, The story

Genre Humor

Half page Lazy Lee story "Dull Fellow"

Genre Gags

6 page Marvel Family story "The Pandora Pirates Ch. 3: The Pirate Pay-Off"

Characters Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]]; Sterling Morris; Barbary Pirates
Synopsis The Marvel Family rescues Sterling Morris from the Barbary Pirates and sends them to jail.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Reprinted in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #13 (July-August 1974); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #3/1975