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Issue: Flashback #17
Publication Date: January 1974
 
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Indicia Publisher: Special Edition Reprints
On Sale Date: 07/15/1974
Volume:
Pages: 68
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Price: $3.00 USD
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Content Items: 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alan Light [as Alan L. Light]
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 7.35" x 10.4"
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was on-going series
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Captain Marvel Jr. Sinks the Japs!

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typeset
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superhero
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Editorial Advisory Board of Captain Marvel Junior; Captain Marvel Jr. Presents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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superhero
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The Origin of Captain Marvel Jr. Retold

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superhero
Freddy's unnamed grandfather (death, flashback)
While they are fishing, Freddy's grandfather rescues the nefarious Captain Nazi, who promptly kills the grandfather and severely injures Freddy Freeman. Captain Marvel rescues the young boy and takes him to see Shazam, who gives some of the Mighty Mortal's powers to the boy, who then becomes Captain Marvel Junior.
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Wings Over Dazaggar!!

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Monsieur Renald (death); unnamed French Colonel; the Nazis (villains, some die)
Captain Marvel Jr. goes to Dazaggar in Africa to fight Captain Nazi and prevent him from moving plans ahead there to use gigantic "winged castles" to invade the Western Hemisphere.
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Miscellaneous
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One Returned

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typeset
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Davey; Smoky
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The Shadow That Walked!

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superhero
unnamed editor of the Herald-Globe; Jerry Fladd (reporter, death); The Walking Shadow [Yvonne Sergo aka Yvonne Blake] (villain, ventriloquist, introduction, death); Shoes McCann (villain); Spike (villain, death)
Captain Marvel Jr. involves himself in a case where a criminal, known as The Walking Shadow, is causing a crime wave, threatening to become the King of Crime, a title he may well own if he can locate the Dumont Treasure.
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Oddity: on page 5, panel 6, Freddy Freeman says the name "Captain Marvel Jr.", but doesn't change into his other self.
The Bomb Proof Shirt!

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humorous, teen
Harry (Willie's cousin, not yet named); General McFuttle (not yet named); Lieutenant; Nelly (a horse)
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The Case of the Crippled Kidnappers

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Mayor Horton; Slim (villain); Ma (villain); Al (villain)
Captain Marvel Jr. gets involved in a fake accident racket, in which young cripples were drugged, then used in certain fake accidents that would net the gang millions in blackmail payments.
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Miscellaneous
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Story title taken from the DC Archives.
[untitled]

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humorous
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The Cracked Safecracker

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Bull Bimmens (ex-villain); Bull's unnamed mother; Bull's unnamed father; Lefty (villain)
Captain Marvel Jr. saves an older couple from being run over, and discovers that they are to be forced into living in a poorhouse unless their son can be found to help them out. But when he sees a picture of the son, Captain Marvel Jr. recognizes him as a noted safecracker. Still, he brings about a reunion and Bull decides to reform.
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Miscellaneous
12
Story title taken from the contents page.
Go Get the Marvel Gang

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superhero
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Back cover. Promotional advertisement for the numerous Fawcett superheroes.

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