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Issue Details

Issue	#86
Published	August 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	C. C. Beck

2 page text story "Strange Happenings"

Script	R. R. Symes
Letters	typeset

8 page Marvel Family story "Fights the Feathered Fury"

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
Reprinted	in Shazam from the Forties to the Seventies (Harmony Books, 1977 series) #nn (1977)

Half page Wilbur the Waiter story "Appreciative Fellow"

Genre	Gags
Notes	humor filler

4 page Headline Harry story "The Subscription Builder"

Genre	humor
Script	Howard Boughner
Pencils	Howard Boughner
Inks	Howard Boughner

Half page Rubbernose Randolph story "Big Gossip"

Genre	Gags
Script	Art Helfant
Pencils	Art Helfant
Inks	Art Helfant

1 page Dizzy Daisy story "Obeys the Signs"

Genre	Gags
Script	Howard Boughner
Pencils	Howard Boughner
Inks	Howard Boughner

1 page Marvel Family Puzzle Page activity

6 page Marvel Family story "The Word Wrecker Ch. 1: Burn, Books--Burn"

Characters	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; King Kull (villain)
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks	Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted	in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #14 (September-October 1974); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #2/1975

6 page Marvel Family story "The Word Wrecker Ch. 2: The Peril of the Paper Pyres"

Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks	Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted	in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #14 (September-October 1974); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #2/1975

5 page Marvel Family story "The Word Wrecker Ch. 3: Battle of the Books"

Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks	Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted	in Shazam! (DC, 1973 series) #14 (September-October 1974); in Shazam! (Williams Forlag A/S, 1974 series) #2/1975