Cover: Bob Oksner

Shazam! #21

Nov 1975 · DC · 0.25 USD

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“The World of Giant Rats”

Few predicaments look quite as undignified as Captain Marvel — the World's Mightiest Mortal — flat on his back, caught in an oversized mousetrap while a trio of upright, caped giant rats loom over him armed and menacing. Bob Oksner's cover for this December 1975 DC issue sells the absurd danger perfectly, with Marvel's speech bubble ("Ohh No! I've been trapped by Giant Rats!") making clear that even Earth's mightiest champion can have a very bad day. With a bonus "World's Mightiest Boy" extra and a tie-in to the Saturday TV series, Shazam! #21 offers a wonderfully strange slice of Bronze Age superhero adventure.

writer William Woolfolk · artist C. C. Beck · inker Pete Costanza · cover Bob Oksner

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writer William Woolfolk

artist C. C. Beck

inker Pete Costanza

cover pencils, inks Bob Oksner

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Captain Marvel travels to the year 81,953 and discovers that the land is ruled by giant rats, and mankind is reduced to hiding underground.

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