Publishers / Fawcett / The Marvel Family (1945) / #50
50August 1950
$0.10

The Marvel Family #50

Fawcett · August 1950

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Identification plate

Series
The Marvel Family (Fawcett, 1945 series)
Issue
#50
Publication date
August 1950
Key date
1950-08-00
Indicia publisher
Fawcett Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
52

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The Speech Scrambler Machinecover1pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt SchaffenbergerCaptain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Prof. Gilbert Thorne
3The Theft of Speechcomic story9.67script: Otto Binder; pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt SchaffenbergerCaptain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Prof. Gilbert Thorne (first appearance)
4Captain Marvel Clubpromo (ad from the publisher)0.33letters: ?; typesetCaptain Marvel [Billy Batson]
5The Interviewcomic story4script: Howard Boughner; pencils: Howard Boughner; inks: Howard BoughnerHeadline Harry; J. A. Blab
7Battles the Melody of Crime!comic story7script: Otto Binder; pencils: Pete RissMary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Basso Barton
8Battles the Trublinscomic story7script: Bill Woolfolk; pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt SchaffenbergerCaptain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mrs. Wagner; The Sheriff of Trublin Land
9The Roller Robbertext story2script: Clement GoodJoe Cavalaro; Bill Garrison
11Tick and Tackcomic story4Tick; Tack
12No. 30activity1pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt SchaffenbergerCaptain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
13Sivana's Good Inventionscomic story8script: Otto Binder; pencils: Pete Costanza; inks: Pete CostanzaCaptain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sivana (villain)
15Thaddeus the Thespiancomic story0.5Thaddeus; Mr. Bard
17-promo (ad from the publisher)1letters: typeset

Plus 6.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

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