Cover: C. C. Beck

Captain Marvel Story Book #1

Jul 1946 · Fawcett · 0.15 USD

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“On the Planet Pazzoo, Ch. 1: Columbus Sails Again”

Fawcett's Summer 1946 experiment in long-form superhero storytelling, Captain Marvel Story Book #1 promised readers something genuinely different: two giant Captain Marvel novels totaling over 20,000 words alongside 64 pages of story and art. C. C. Beck's cover captures the Big Red Cheese himself cheerfully holding up comic strip panels — showing Captain Marvel in action against a group of figures — while a speech bubble and prose story pages fan out beside him, practically inviting you to dive in. It's a warm, clever cover that sells the hybrid comics-and-prose format perfectly, with Beck's clean linework giving the World's Mightiest Mortal an appropriately enthusiastic grin.

writer Otto Binder · artist C. C. Beck · inker Pete Costanza · cover C. C. Beck

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writer Otto Binder

artist C. C. Beck

inker Pete Costanza

cover pencils, inks C. C. Beck

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