(January 20, 1943)

Fawcett, 1942 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
68
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1942-12-18
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Fawcett Publications Inc.
Brand
A Fawcett Publication [Triangle]
Editing
Rod Reed ?

Issue Notes

On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Volume 38, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number 569382.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Captain Marvel Jr. / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Mac Raboy
Inks
Mac Raboy
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
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In This Issue (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Marvel Jr. / table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Capt. Nazi

The Return of the Pied Piper of Himmler (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain Marvel Jr. / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Otto Binder
Pencils
Al Carreno ?
Inks
Al Carreno ?
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Close your ears - don't listen!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Pied Piper (villain)

68 Thrilling, Action-Packed Pages! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Captain Marvel Jr. / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Case of the Terrible Teeth (Table of Contents: 4)

Captain Marvel Jr. / comic story / 12.67 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Millard
Pencils
Al Carreno ?
Inks
Al Carreno ?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Captain Nippon (villain); Franklin D. Roosevelt (cameo)

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from textual analysis by Lou Mougin.

It's Out - Get It Now! (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[The Stolen Mine] (Table of Contents: 6)

The Trolls / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Introducing The Trolls!
Genre
humor
Characters
The Trolls (first appearance)

Indexer Notes

contents page title

The Mysterious Code (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
L. E. Andrews
Letters
typeset
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Syd Foster; John Curtin; Professor Lubitz

[Captain Nazi Vs. the Boys of America] (Table of Contents: 8)

Captain Marvel Jr. / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Millard ?
Pencils
Al Carreno
Inks
Al Carreno
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Out of the shadows of night he came.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Captain Nazi (villain); Adolf Hitler (villain)

Indexer Notes

Writer credit suggested by textual analysis from Lou Mougin.

The Stars of the Comics Can Bang the Axis (Table of Contents: 9)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
non-fiction; superhero

Indexer Notes

Ad for buying War Stamps and Bonds.
With cameos of six Fawcett heroes.

[Paul Bunyan, the Giant of the North Woods] (Table of Contents: 10)

Captain Marvel Jr. / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Otto Binder
Pencils
Sheldon Moldoff
Inks
Sheldon Moldoff
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Once Upon a Time! That's the way many an old fairy-tale started.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Paul Bunyan (introduction)

Indexer Notes

Art revision from Al Carreno to Moldoff per P.C. Hammerlinck's belief from interviews conducted personally with Moldoff, the last of which appears in Alter Ego #119 (August 2013).

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Captain Marvel Jr.
  2. 1. In This Issue
    Captain Marvel Jr.
  3. 2. The Return of the Pied Piper of Himmler
    Captain Marvel Jr.
  4. 3. 68 Thrilling, Action-Packed Pages!
    Captain Marvel Jr.
  5. 4. Case of the Terrible Teeth
    Captain Marvel Jr.
  6. 5. It's Out - Get It Now!
  7. 6. [The Stolen Mine]
    The Trolls
  8. 7. The Mysterious Code
  9. 8. [Captain Nazi Vs. the Boys of America]
    Captain Marvel Jr.
  10. 9. The Stars of the Comics Can Bang the Axis
  11. 10. [Paul Bunyan, the Giant of the North Woods]
    Captain Marvel Jr.
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  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Craig Delich
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Del Gruber
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Len Wolinsky
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