The Marvel Family #41 (1949) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Great Oxygen Theft	cover	1	pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt Schaffenberger	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
1	The Marvel Family and the Great Oxygen Theft	comic story	9.67	script: Otto Binder	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Sivana (villain)
2	Hopalong Cassidy	activity	0.33
4	Unhealthy	comic story	1
6	Birthday Blues	comic story	2
7	Mary Marvel and the Playwright Plot	comic story	7	script: Otto Binder	Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
9	Hoghead Harry	comic story	0.5
10	Capt. Marvel Jr and the Newspaper War!	comic story	7		Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
11	No Smoking	comic story	1
12	Murder Downstairs	text story	2	script: R. R. Symes	Mortimer Beard
13	The Musical Interlude	comic story	4	script: Howard Boughner; pencils: Howard Boughner; inks: Howard Boughner
14	No. 21	activity	1		The Marvel Family
15	Captain Marvel Sails before the Mast	comic story	7.67	script: Otto Binder; pencils: Pete Costanza; inks: Pete Costanza	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
17	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 3.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Shazam! #17	1975	On eBay ›
The Complete Marvel Family: Volume 8	2016	On eBay ›

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