The Marvel Family #20 (1948) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Marvel Family Feud	cover	1		Billy Batson, Mary Batson, Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., Freddy Freeman, Mary Marvel
1	The Marvel Family	table of contents	1
2	The Marvel Family Feud	comic story	8.67	script: Bill Woolfolk; pencils: C. C. Beck; inks: C. C. Beck	Billy Batson, Mary Batson, Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., Freddy Freeman, Mary Marvel
4	Talks Too Much	comic story	0.5
5	Smashing Idea	comic story	0.5	script: Howard Boughner; pencils: Howard Boughner; inks: Howard Boughner
6	The Giant Vitamin	comic story	7	pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt Schaffenberger	Captain Marvel Jr., Freddy Freeman
7	Suits Us	comic story	0.5	script: Howard Boughner; pencils: Howard Boughner; inks: Howard Boughner
8	As Time Goes By	comic story	0.5
10	The Mystery of the Vanishing Schoolhouse!	comic story	6.67	script: Otto Binder; pencils: Jack Binder; inks: Jack Binder	Mary Batson, Mary Marvel
11	Captain Kid Makes History	comic story	0.5	pencils: Al Liederman; inks: Al Liederman
12	Sign of Stupidity	comic story	0.5	script: Lit-Win; pencils: Lit-Win; inks: Lit-Win
13	The Great Demonstration	comic story	4
14	I'll Kill You for This!	text story	2	script: Clement Good
15	The Marvel Family Puzzle Page	activity	1
16	Gets a Columnist	comic story	0.5
17	Skin Trouble	comic story	0.5	script: Art Helfant; pencils: Art Helfant; inks: Art Helfant
18	The Mistake of Father Time	comic story	7.67	script: Otto Binder; pencils: C. C. Beck; inks: C. C. Beck	Billy Batson, Captain Marvel

Plus 1.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Limited Collectors' Edition #C-27	1974	On eBay ›
Mary Marvel Fanzine #5	2005	On eBay ›

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