Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) comic books 1949

Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, Jack Binder, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family investigates when a vast hunger sweeps over the people of the world, threatening starvation and the collapse of civilization. On a lighter note, Captain Marvel, Jr. battles The Squirrel, a dude in a squirrel suit who bops people with his gigantic tail. So, a little something for everyone in this ish. Mary Marvel briefly loses her powers. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Great Hunger; Mary Marvel Becomes the Worlds Saddest Girl; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Headline Harry; Digby the Dentist; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Capt. Marvel Jr. and the Nutty Squirrel; The Pies the Limit; Water Thief; Captain Marvel: The Flame Fiend. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $370.00 View scans Paper: Off white Pedigree: Crowley Crowley Copy. Label #0605377015

Stories and art by Otto Binder, Frank Bolle, Kurt Schaffenberger, Jack Binder, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When a businessman is threatened with a hostile takeover, The Marvel Family offers to help him run his business, but that's not as easy as it sounds. After Freckles is kidnapped by gangsters, Mary Marvel disguises herself as a boy and joins the gang to find her, riding on the running boards of an old car at high speeds. Springfoot the Clown performs to inspire disabled children, having an artificial leg himself, but when he's abducted by crooks, Captain Marvel, Jr. wonders why the clown has turned to crime. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Marvel Family Goes Into Business; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Headline Harry: Below Sea Level; Freshman Freddy; Tightwad Tad; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: The Trap; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Clown of Crime; The Magic Maker; Death Stalks the Hunters; Captain Marvel: The Three Dooms. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk, Al Liederman, Kurt Schaffenberger, Jack Binder, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family tries to help out a hermit family...but they don't want to be helped, and just ask to be left alone, like hermits do. Mary Marvel tries to secretly help when her family butler Jives must impersonate a jockey to smoke out a gang of crooks. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Hermit Family; The Haunted House; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Headline Harry: The Haunted House; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: Jives Becomes a Jockey; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Sleeping People; Captain Kid: No Tanks; Death on Deck; Captain Marvel: The Fate of the Time Capsule. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, Jack Binder, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. Sivana manages to shrink himself down to the size of an insect, but somehow he's even more dangerous. Mary Marvel has a bad day when the two most unlikely villains team up: Georgia Sivana and the Hen. A man tries to goad his super-strong son into fighting Captain Marvel Jr., but all the kid wants to do is read and study, in a story with its narrative captions in rhyme. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Fun cover may be the work of C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Sivanas Miniature Menace; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Cry of Coward; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Headline Harry: Behind the Eight Ball; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: The Crime Bubbles; Protection; Captain Marvel: The Duel of Inventions. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bill Ward, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family is helping clear land for a turnpike to meet America's increasing traffic demand, when suddenly the giant machines begin attacking, Maximum Overdrive-style. Captain Marvel trains another Captain Marvel, an android named Silicon Man who has all of his powers - what could go wrong? Captain Marvel, Jr. tries to keep crooked insurance agent from profiting off the Fountain of Age (a different "Fountain of Age" than the one in the Captain Marvel, Jr. adventure in Master Comics (1940 Fawcett) #74.) Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Battle of the Berserk Machines; The Hunt; Mary Marvel Visits Underland; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Fearsome Fountain of Age; Cold Facts; Mistaken Vigil; Captain Marvel Trains Another Captain Marvel. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, C. C. Beck, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. In an issue-length adventure, living fireballs from beyond Infinity attack the Solar System, starting with the outer planets. The Marvel Family becomes Earth's last line of defense against a fiery doom from space. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads. The Invaders From Infinity; Strange Intruder; Headline Harry: Stuck on the Stock Market; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family tries to prevent a machine (that looks like a giant red pin) from rearranging the Earth's continents. Insomniac Wideawake Willy steals Dr. Zandmann's supply of "sleep sand" and soon the entire city is asleep, except Mary Marvel. Captain Marvel, Jr. battles evil hypnotist Count Peril Ize, whose spiral gaze provides the comic-book page with its own special effect ("Rotate the magazine and watch Mr. Ize's eyes whirl hypnotically!"). Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads. The Earth Changer; Paper, Mister?; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Man With the Whirling Eyes; Lazy Lee; Headline Harry; Mary Marvel: The Sinister Sleep; The Luggage Mystery; Captain Marvel Battles the World's Greatest Lies; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. Sivana's latest invention eliminates everyone's instinctual responses, and The Marvel Family must prevent a plague of accidental suicides. Crooks fleeing Mary Marvel seek refuge in a Moreau-like compound of genetically altered animals. When a bodybuilder goes mad with his own power, Captain Marvel, Jr. must prevent this Charles Atlas ad-gone-wrong from destroying the city. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade, and a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie to the Rescue, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. The Extinct Instincts; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Mad Muscle Man; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; Headline Harry: Music Time; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: The Science Wonderland; The Tornado; Captain Marvel Battles the Tycoon of Darkness. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $41.00 View scan Cover detached at one staple.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $490.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #1260602002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover pencils by C. C. Beck. The Marvel Family Smashes the Legend of Atlantis, script by Otto Binder, art by Kurt Schaffenberger; The Marvel Family proves Atlantis was a myth, and is really Australia--which is surprising, since Cap, Jr. visited Atlantis in issue #10. Rubbernose Randolph humor page by Art Helfant. The Curse of the Tomb starring Captain Marvel [Billy Batson], Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman], and Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]. The Payoff humor page by Judge Smudge, script and art by Howard Boughner. The Woman of a Thousand Faces starring Mary Marvel, script by Otto Binder. How To Crack Open A Soft-Boiled Egg--Culture Corner humor half-page by Basil Wolverton. Biggest Loafer In Town humor half-page by Lazy Lee. Race With Death text story. Air Minded starring Headline Harry, script and art by Howard Boughner. The Mightiest Meteor Shower starring Captain Marvel and Sivana, script by Otto Binder, pencils by C. C. Beck, inks by Pete Costanza. Value of Friendship humor page starring Boxcar Benny. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Howard Boughner and others. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. In an issue-length adventure, visitors to a memorial statue discuss The Marvel Family's final adventure, helping a philanthropist build an exhibit that is supposed to unite the world in peace. But his dark secret spells doom for The Marvel Family, in a tale that (in retrospect) seems to echo a pivotal scene in Alan Moore's Marvelman/ Miracleman saga. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, a puzzle page, and a PSA for War Bonds featuring the original Captain Marvel (Shazam). The Seven Wonders of the Modern World; Headline Harry: The Starry Night; The Artist Fights Again; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Toothache Tex. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, Pete Costanza, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family soars into action when someone starts stealing the world's oxygen. Billy Batson can't help Quentin Vandecker with the villainous sailor Captain Bryce, but maybe Captain Marvel can. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Great Oxygen Theft; Bluster and Fluster: Birthday Blues; Mary Marvel: The Playwright Plot; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Newspaper War; Murder Downstairs; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Hoghead Harry; Headline Harry: The Musical Interlude; Captain Marvel Sails Before the Mast; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Time Master's new invention allows him to "Groundhog Day" the world, and he plans to use it to create the Perfect Crime. Jack Frost gets bored with only making the colors change on autumn leaves, so he decides to change all sorts of colors during summer, unless Mary Marvel can convince him otherwise. Captured by gangsters and gagged, Billy Batson manages to Scherezade his captors by writing them a Captain Marvel story that takes their attention until he can escape. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Endless Menace; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Enchanted Roc; Mary Marvel: The Runaway Colors; Journey for Jerry; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Dopey Danny Dee; Headline Harry: Western Woes; Captain Marvel Rescues Billy Batson; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Tightwad Tad. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.