Marvel Family (1945 Fawcett) comic books 1951
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$480.00
View scans- Paper: White
- Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s)
- Label #4044166003
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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$23.00
View scans- 1.5" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple.
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.