Publishers / Fawcett / The Marvel Family (1945) / #23
23May 1948
$0.10

The Marvel Family #23

Fawcett · May 1948 · on sale 1948-03-19

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Identification plate

Series
The Marvel Family (Fawcett, 1945 series)
Issue
#23
Publication date
May 1948
Key date
1948-05-00
On-sale date
1948-03-19
Indicia publisher
Fawcett Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
52

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The Sivana Family's Newspapercover1pencils: Pete Costanza; inks: Pete CostanzaCaptain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
2In This Issuetable of contents1
3The Sivana Family's Newspapercomic story9script: Bill Woolfolk; pencils: C. C. Beck; inks: Pete CostanzaCaptain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Sivana Family [Sivana; Sivana Jr.; Georgia]
4A Mining We Will Go - A Mining We Will Go -comic story2
5The Marvel Family Puzzle Pageactivity1Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
7The Cornerstone Casecomic story6.67pencils: Joe Certa; inks: Joe CertaCaptain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
8Only Thing Wrongcomic story0.5script: Howard Boughner; pencils: Howard Boughner; inks: Howard Boughner
9Flying High!comic story7pencils: Jack Binder; inks: Jack BinderMary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Prof. Richard (first appearance); Horace Richard (first appearance; Prof. Richard's son)
10Gets in the Swim of Thingscomic story1
11Ski Highcomic story6script: Al Liederman; pencils: Al Liederman; inks: Al Liederman
12The Smart Burglartext story2script: R. R. SymesDetective Colligan
13The Hammer of Thor!comic story7.67script: Otto Binder; pencils: Pete Costanza; inks: Pete CostanzaCaptain Marvel [Billy Batson]; A. H. Thor (first appearance; villain; possibly a descendant of Thor); Thor's hammer (first appearance; melted down by Captain Marvel!)

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

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