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1December 1945
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The Marvel Family #1

Fawcett · December 1945 · on sale November 21, 1945

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Identification plate

Series
The Marvel Family (Fawcett, 1945 series)
Issue
#1
Publication date
December 1945
Key date
December 1945
On-sale date
November 21, 1945
Indicia publisher
Fawcett Publications, Incorporated
Price
$0.10
Pages
36

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Mighty Marvel Family Joins Forces vs. Black Adam!cover1pencils: C. C. Beck; inks: Pete CostanzaCaptain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel; Uncle Marvel [Uncle Dudley]; Wizard Shazam
1The Marvel Familytable of contents1Captain Marvel; Captain Marvel Jr.; Mary Marvel; Uncle Marvel [as Uncle Dudley]
2The Mighty Marvels Join Forces!comic story15script: Otto Binder; pencils: C. C. Beck; inks: Pete CostanzaCaptain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Wizard Shazam; Uncle Marvel [Uncle Dudley]; Black Adam [Teth-Adam; Mighty Adam] (villain, introduction, origin)
3Boxcar Bennycomic story0.5Boxcar Benny; General Footsore
4The Show Casecomic story3.5script: Dick McCay; pencils: Dick McCay; inks: Dick McCayRichard Richard; Ah Choo; Flub Dub
5Shamrocks for Perrytext story2script: Bert Mill; letters: typesetGram O'Donnell; Lon O'Donnell; Perry O'Murian; Cosmo Costello
6The Marvel Family and Baby Marvelcomic story10script: Otto Binder; pencils: C. C. Beck; inks: C. C. BeckCaptain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Uncle Marvel [Uncle Dudley]; Baby Marvel (Introduction); Blacky Bucher (villain)

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

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