85 years ago today, Chapter 1 of the 12 episode Republic Pictures serial, The Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941), began playing in theaters. It is considered the first theatrical film adaptation of a comic book superhero. #40sSciFi #TomTyler #FawcettComics #RepublicPictures
Comic book cover for Captain Marvel Adventures #12, June 1942. Captain Marvel strides across a battlefield, ripping apart barbed wire as bullets bounce off him. Five soldiers follow him
Captain Marvel Adventures #12, June 1942. One of my favorite early covers from this run - simple, bold composition that packs a real punch. CC Beck was a master!
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Captain Carvel sweats and looks confused and uncomfortable as four beautiful women in majorette costumes surround him. He cries, IT’S NO USE, MR. MORRIS! I CAN’T... FIGHT - WOMEN!
OK just one more look inside Captain Marvel Adventures #9!
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As a drill press bears down on his chin, Captain Marvel laughs and proclaims that it tickles
Captain Marvel Adventures #9 panel - golden age Fawcetts are full of great stuff like this, it’s no wonder I got addicted
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A scantily clad blonde white woman with a blue majorette hat and a weary expression carries a tray that is rapidly filling with cash and jewelry as people donate to the war effort.
More from Captain Marvel Adventures #9 - I love how unimpressed she looks
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Billy Batson gapes at a collection of of surreal animal-human types and one pretty lady and wonders if he looks as strange to them
Brawny IBAC, a shirtless, hairy goon with bulging muscles and a black Mohawk, revels in his strength
Some panels from Captain Marvel Adventures #9
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Comic page of Captain Marvel beating up three goons in bulky protective suits. Publisher Sterling Morris, in fancy dress, cheers him on
Inside Captain Marvel Adventures #9!
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Comic book cover for Captain Marvel Adventures #9, April 3 1942. Full length image of Captain Marvel standing next to for insect images taken from the stories inside the book.
Captain Marvel Adventures #9, Apr 3, 1942. Bought from Jerry Stephan in ‘98. (always liked buying from him, haven’t seen him in a long time - think he’s at Heritage now) Lots of lunacy in this issue, along with the expected WW2 era race trash, ofc. #comicsky #goldenagecomics #fawcettcomics #shazam
Inside back cover of CMA #5 - incredible Mac Raboy cover art for Master Comics 21. A book my brother owns! Not that I covet it or anything
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To prove his identity before a policeman, Captain Marvel beats the stuffing out of a man made up to look just like him
I had to include this whole page from CMA #5, it’s too good
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A bound Billy Barton falls head first into flames and shouts “SHAZAM!”
Captain Marvel serves a crowned and disheveled Dr. Sivana some medicine with a spoon as Sivana coughs and gags
Interior panels from CMA #5 - never a dull moment in these books, truly
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Captain Marvel strolls past a trashcan with a white cat investigating its contents. He says, “ HERE I AM IN TOUGHTOWN, SIVANA WILL HAVE HEADQUARTERS IN THE WORST SECTION.”
Fun stuff inside CMA #5
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Comic book cover for Captain Marvel adventures #5, Dec 1941. 10¢. Captain Marvel stands on the wing of a Nazi bomber, breaking off the end of the wing. Other planes fly in the distance, over a rural landscape.
Next up, Captain Marvel Adventures #5, December 1941. The perspective on this cover is amazing, and I always approve of Nazis getting their wings clipped. Dated December 1941, but released November 7 - a month later, the US was in the war.
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Cover for Whiz Comics 12, 10¢. Captain Marvel Rides The Engine of Doom! He sits astride an airplane engine w/ propellor zipping through the sky. He is manning a machine gun that is fixed to the top. A plane goes down in flames behind him. The comic is badly damaged
Whiz Comics 11. In the 90s my fave LCS had an old guy bring in an insane GA collection, w/ all the big keys. A major dealer bought it all but left a box that had been chewed by varmints. My bro bought it and got some incredible books, gave me this.
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This week, we jump back to 1944 to bring you the epic tale where Bulletman encounters the Golden Age Tattooed Man!?!?!
Join David and Peter as they cover this story from Master Comics 55.
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Comic book cover for 64 PAGES OF NEW CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES. No. 3, Fall Edition. 10¢. It is a very beat up copy. On a blue field, Captain Marvel in his red and gold tights and white and gold cape charges forward amidst a cloud of orange smoke. A silver lightning bolt zaps through it.
Here’s my earliest Captain Marvel Adventures - #3, Augp 1941. Love the dynamic simplicity of this cover, always hits me like a brick. The silver ink lightning bolt is a cool touch too, bet it looks amazing on high grade copies! Which this ain’t 😅
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FACT: no comic book artist ever depicted the power of flight as beautifully as Mac Raboy, or ever will. I will fight you one at a time or all at once to defend this basic tenet of non negotiable reality.
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Comic book cover for Special Edition Comics #1, 1940. 10¢. 64 PAGES- NEW ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL Featuring Brand-New Stories of CAPTAIN MARVEL, World’s Mightiest Man Captain Marvel, in his red and gold super suit with white and gold cape, is riding an exploding shell joyously through an orange sky as another shell flies behind him
That Monster Society hardcover was my ticket into collecting Fawcett. I ended up focusing on Captain Marvel Adventures, but got a few others too. My earliest - Special Edition Comics 1, 1940, the first full issue dedicated to the Big Red Cheese.
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Two page spread shows various images of Captain Marvel as well as the beginning of a long historical article about the character.
Anyway, it’s a terrific book. If you ever happen across one for a friendly price, you won’t be sorry!
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Two page spread shows Billy captured and tied to a cannon at the cliffhanger of o e chapter on the left, and the start of the next chapter on the right. The main image is malevolent super genius work Mr. Mind dressed up like a cartoon dictator
I really appreciated them printing from photos of the pages, instead of re-coloring them.
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Two pads spread shows young Billy Barton narrating as Cap stands over a miniature world, with clouds all around, as a collection of malefactors approaches from the stars
This book had a gigantic effect on me! The earnest craziness of golden age Fawcett comics really hit the sweet spot for me.
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Oversized hardcover black book with large lettering reading THE MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL standing next to its red slipcase, which features a gold foil thunderbolt
In the 90s I became aware of The Monster Society of Evil, an epic that ran for 25 issues of Captain Marvel Adventures 1943-45, and got obsessed. Was excited to find this jumbo slipcase hardcover that collected the whole thing.
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Captain Marvel and Billy Batson from the cover of Shazam! #5 November 7, 2023 | Art: Dan Mora
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Mister Mind, an alien worm with a speaker hanging around his neck looking quite angry.
According to the 1976 Super DC Calendar today is the birthday of the world's wickedest alien worm, Mister Mind!
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