Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) comic books 1951

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, Al Liederman, Pete Riss, Bill Woolfolk, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family investigates after an entire city disappears beneath the waves. Captain Marvel, Jr. learns the strange secret of Sir Reginald. Mary Marvel visits a land where the leader is a tyrant who keeps his people primitive, so he can have the country's wealth in resources for himself. The Man Who Sank a City; Headline Harry: The Goofy Assignment!; Mary Marvel: The Miser of Resources!; Capt. Marvel Jr.: Sir Reginald and the Beastman; Lazy Lee: Losing His Sleep!; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Captain Kid: The 88 Keys to Success!; The Laughing Ghost; Captain Marvel: The Governor of Space. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Otto Binder, 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, multi-part adventure, a call for help from the center of the Earth leads The Marvel Family to an underground civilization. The king would rather destroy the underworld than abdicate his power, and tries to do so with a "helium bomb." So the Marvels set out to find a new home for the underworlders on another planet. The Worlds Mightiest Project, Chapter One: The Amazing Underground Secret; Economic-Minded Ed; Beulah the Bride; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The New News; The Corpse Came Back; Chapter Two: Building a World; Chapter Three: Peril Strikes the New Earth; Dusty: The Changing Opinion. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger, Pete Costanza, Pete Riss, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When the people of a crowded land fear the bandits of the nearby mountains, The Marvel Family solves both problems at once by simply getting rid of the mountains. The original Captain Marvel loses his sense of taste, and sets out to find who or what is responsible. Mary Marvel meets a man who loves hate mail and does terrible things just to get more hate, a sort of predictor of future social-media phenomena. The Land That Never Was; Capt. Marvel: The Mystery of the Lost Sense; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Firing Escape; Mary Marvel: The Collector of Hate; As Thousands Jeer; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Floating Department Store; Captain Marvel: The Runaway Genius. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger, Pete Costanza, Pete Riss, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. Time-traveling villains Doctor X/Y/Z set out to abduct the greatest geniuses in all history and force them to make super-weapons and doomsday devices. Ebenezer Whitt tries to prove to Billy Batson that he's 200 years old, a claim that rings a bell with the descendant of a swindler who once sold Ebenezer a fake Fountain of Youth. Mary Marvel battles the evil wizard Diavlo, who can not only conjure monsters, but can create duplicates of himself so Mary's not sure who to punch. The Triple Time Plot; Bigby; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Nobleman; Mary Marvel Fights the Likeness Peril; Captain Marvel: The Man Who Lived Two Centuries; Captain Marvel Jr. Fights the Freak Fiasco; Key to Crime; Captain Marvel: The Blackness Plague. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Pete Costanza, inks by Pete Costanza. The Sneaking Doom Ch. 1: The Land, Sea, and Air Mystery, script by Otto Binder, pencils by C. C. Beck, inks by Pete Costanza; The Managers of Earth decide to find out who is most powerful, Water, Land or Gas; They do this by changing the laws of physics to see what happens. Man of Action humor page starring Lazy Lee. Paid In Full text story by Kermit Welles. The Battling Bruiser, script and art by by Howard Boughner; Headline Harry owes a bully five dollars. The Sneaking Doom Ch. 2: The Creeping Horror; The Marvel Family escapes from the Managers of Earth and stop more of their disasters. Man of Property humor page starring Boxcar Benny. The Sneaking Doom Ch. 3: The End of the World; the Marvel Family stops the Managers of the Earth from destroying the planet. Marvel Family Puzzle Page. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bill Woolfolk, Pete Costanza, Pete Riss, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When The Marvel Family discovers a Stone Age tribe living without money, they introduce the concept, and completely change every aspect of the formerly primitive society. In a similar vein, the Space Philanthropist wants to grant the wishes of everyone on Earth, but that destabilizes society, as the wishes are very specific and dangerous. Sivana's latest invention makes the original Captain Marvel the most hated individual on Earth, and Sivana the most beloved. Another terrific Marvel Family cover by Pete Costanza. The Money-Making Mystery; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Scary Business; Mary Marvel: The Man Who Killed With Kindness; Captain Marvel Jr.: Headline of Horror; Polly Wants a Killer; The Worldwide Hatred. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, 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 goes in search of a missing galaxy, and encounters a catastrophic collision of galaxies and a war that has lasted for a million years. Headline Harry realizes that the pickpocket stalking the city park is actually a gang of squirrels. The original Captain Marvel discovers that the unwashed hobo Jeb Jutter is one of the greatest engineering minds of all time. The Million Year War; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Squirrel Mystery; Poison; The Unknown Genius. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Otto Binder and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When whole towns disappear without a trace, The Marvel Family investigates and discovers the answers lead to the bottom of the ocean. Sivana is responsible, and when The Marvel Family gets close, he sets a trap for them using the great beasts of the deep, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. Sivanas Undersea Kingdom , Chapter One: The Vanishing Towns; Music Thief; Boxcar Benny; Vouching Vardon; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Airport Scoop; Chapter Two: The Underwater Trap; Chapter Three: Monsters of the Deep. 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. When strange disasters begin occurring at sea, The Marvel Family investigates and discovers the trail leads to space pirates. They must stop the canny space-pirate commander Kozz, but first they must find his camouflaged ship, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. The Pirate Planet, Chapter One: The Amazing Sea Mystery; Warriors of the Sea: Defeat of the Guerriere; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Circus Craze; Chapter Two: The Weird Water World; Chapter Three: The Invasion of Earth. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When Billy Batson's radio station gets into TV broadcasting (a hot topic in 1951), Sivana decides to bend the new technology to his own nefarious purposes. The Marvel Family must stop him, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure that asks the question, "Will television reach around the world like radio in the near future?" Sivanas Terrible Television Plot, Chapter One: The Sivana Bomb Strikes; Trouble for Two; Boxcar Benny; Chapter Two: Doom to USA-TV; Lazy Lee; Chapter Three: The World-TV Man Hunt; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Syncopation Sap; Scribbling Scribbs. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When a strange melting malady befalls the city, Billy, Mary and Freddy find themselves unable to utter the magic words that transform them into The Marvel Family. It takes intervention by the wizard Shazam to save them, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. The Tenement Terror, Chapter One: The Melting Mystery; Death Watch; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Turf King; Chapter Two: The Trap of Softness; Chapter Three: The Living Nightmare; Hollis, the Autograph Hound. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, 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 finds themselves involved in the worldwide search for the legendary Miracle Stone, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. It will offer untold power to the person who finds it, power which may be dangerous in the hands of ordinary mortals. The Miracle Stone, Chapter One: Safari to Danger; The Face of Murder; Chapter Two: The Mad Miracles; Fiddlers Folly; Chapter Three: The Miracle of the Marvels; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Cinema Scoop!; Speechless Sperry. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.