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Issue: Captain Marvel Adventures #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1942
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/06/1942
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): John Beardsley
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interiors
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series; anthology
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Professor Edgewise Smith; Ibac; Nippo
Wahooo! It's Captain Marvel!
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Cover credit revised by Craig Delich to solely Beck (from Pete Costanza ? on inks), per Brian Cremins article in Alter Ego (Tomorrows, 1999 series) #164 (May 2020), page 79.
In the Realm of the Subconscious

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Billy Batson; Professor Edgewise [Edgewood Smith] (first appearance); Miss Dalshaw (Subconscious world); Sterling Morris (Subconscious world); Flesmih (Captain Marvel in Subconscious world)
How did I get here?
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Note that 'Flesmih', whom Captain Marvel battles in the Subconscious world, is 'Himself' in reverse.
Captain Kid Captures the Big, Big Bad Wolf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
historical, humorous
Captain Kid; Betty Mae; Big, Big Bad Wolf
Swatville!
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Miscellaneous
6
Sequence information from Wilson C Souza (July 17, 2010).
The Return of Ibac

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Billy Batson; Ibac (villain); Ivan the Terrible (villain); Cesare Borgia (villain); Attila the Hun (villain); Caligula; Beautia Sivana (guest star); Ginger Rogers (cameo); Charlie McCarthy (cameo); Edgar Bergen (cameo); W. C. Fields (cameo)
Many a rat has built himself up...
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Death Rides the Skies

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joseph C. Patterson (credited)
? (spot illustration)
? (spot illustration)
? (spot illustration)
typeset
Subject Matter
espionage
Captain "Big John" Hanson; Wong (Japanese spy)
The Jap spies were getting away with murder...
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Nippo from Nagasaki

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Billy Batson; Nippo (first appearance; villain); Sterling Morris
This is a tale of a rising son of the Rising Sun!
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Charles Martel, the Hammering Frank

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
informational, non-fiction
Charles Martel
Wresting the kingship...
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Captain Marvel Saves the King!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Billy Batson; King Bhoris of Domania; Princess Buti; Swindler Sweenks (crook); Duke (crook)
And then there was the time, folks...
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Miscellaneous
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Otto Binder says that this was his first non-prose Captain Marvel story, on assignment by editor Ed Herron, written in December 1941.

P.C. Hamerlinck, Captain Marvel expert, disagrees with Dobrotka as the artist in Alter Ego #147 (July 2017); Dobrotka art credit removed by Craig Delich and replaced with a ?.

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