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Issue Details

Issue #80
Published February 1953
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?

2 page text story "The Winner"

Script R. R. Symes
Letters typeset

11 page Marvel Family story "The Great Red Brain"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Tong (villain; death); Great Red Brain (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

4 page Headline Harry story "Among the Missing"

Genre humor
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

9 page Marvel Family story "The World Jumbler"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Sivana (villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

1 page Lazy Lee story "Time To Stop"

Genre Gags

5 page Marvel Family story "The Ghastly Space Ghoul"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; An alien ghoul (first appearance; villain); Klarz (first appearance; another alien)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

Half page Boxcar Benny story "A Phony"

Genre Gags