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Issue Details

Issue #82
Published April 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 "Murder Mart"

Script John Martin
Letters typeset

8 page Marvel Family story "The Beast Battalions"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

Half page Lazy Lee story "A Pressing Matter"

Genre Gags
Notes humor filler

4 page Headline Harry story "The Reckless Wreck"

Genre humor
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

1 page Boxcar Benny story "Absolutely Correct"

Genre Gags

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

6 page Marvel Family story "The Fantastic Freezing Furies Ch. 1: The March of the Glaciers"

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

6 page Marvel Family story "The Fantastic Freezing Furies Ch. 2: Menace of the Ice King"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-27 (1974)

5 page Marvel Family story "The Fantastic Freezing Furies Ch. 3: The Frozen Horror"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-27 (1974)