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Issue Details

Issue #87
Published September 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Wendell Crowley

Cover Details - "The Pinhead Plague!"

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

2 page text story "Bad Luck"

Script Rod Reed [as Westbrook Wilson]
Pencils ? (illustration)
Inks ? (illustration)
Letters typeset
Notes On inside front and inside back covers.

8 page The Marvel Family story "The Marvel Family Crushes the Crazy Crimes"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; the Crazy Captain (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Pete Costanza
Inks Pete Costanza

Half page Rubbernose Randolph filler "Unmissed!"

Genre Gags
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant

Half page Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb filler "A Moving Story!"

Genre humor

4 page Headline Harry story "The Front Page Yarn"

Genre humor
Script Howard Boughner
Pencils Howard Boughner
Inks Howard Boughner

1 page activity "The Marvel Family Puzzle Page, No. 67"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Mary Marvel

Half page Boxcar Benny filler "Says a Mouthful!"

Genre Gags

Half page The Captain Marvel Club promo (ad from the publisher) "An invitation to all Captain Marvel fans!"

6 page The Marvel Family story "The Pinhead Plague, Chapter One: An Ancient Horror Strikes"

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

6 page The Marvel Family story "[The Pinhead Plague,] Chapter Two: The Sinister Spy Web"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

5 page The Marvel Family story "[The Pinhead Plague,] Chapter Three: The Riddle of the Ruins"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger