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Publisher: Fawcett

Title: Captain Marvel Jr.
Issue: 40
Page Count: 52
Publish Date: July 1946
Volume: 7
Contributors: Editor: Wendell Crowley

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Captain Marvel Jr. #40 (1946)
Owner: Legion HQ

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Story Title: Captain Marvel Jr. Faces a Grave Situation! - cover
Features:Captain Marvel, Jr.
Pages:1
Pencils:Bud Thompson
Inks:Bud Thompson
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]


Story Title: Contents Page - table of contents
Pages:1
Pencils:Bud Thompson
Inks:Bud Thompson
Letters:typeset
Characters:Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; J. B. Ridgewood


Story Title: The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up! - comic story
Features:Captain Marvel Jr.
Pages:8
Pencils:Bud Thompson
Inks:Bud Thompson
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Dick Sanders; Mr. Sanders (boy's father, a biologist, death, flashback); Dr. Witz (scientist)
Synopsis:Freddy is selling papers one day when he sees a young boy driving a fire engine out of the firehouse, and he follows after him. When he later talks to the "boy", Captain Marvel Jr. is told by the boy that he is actually 25 years old, but he hasn't grown physically. His father had invented an elixir of youth and the boy had taken some. Now the young boy thinks like a man but acts like a child.


Story Title: Gloria Retires From Her Interview - comic story
Features:The Snortville Sneeze
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Sid Lazarus
Inks:Sid Lazarus
Genre:humor
Characters:Newspaper editor; Gloria (reporter); Chief Sitting Down
Synopsis:A female reporter is sent out to convince an Indian Chief that he should work so that he can one day retire.


Story Title: Rudolph Rubbernose Has the Time of His Life! - comic story
Features:Rubbernose Randolph
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Art Helfant
Inks:Art Helfant
Genre:humor
Characters:Rubbernose Randolph; movie patron
Synopsis:A movie goer approaches Rubbernose wanting to know if he know the time, but he doesn't get the answer he expects.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Wheaties
Pages:1
Genre:sports
Characters:Roger "Doc" Cramer (Detroit Tigers outfielder)


Story Title: Prison Pranks - cartoon
Features:Giggle Gags
Pages:1
Genre:humor
Synopsis:A collection of mainly unsequential cartoons in regards to prison life.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Popsicle
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Principal Draws Interest! - comic story
Features:Captain Marvel Jr.
Pages:6.66
Pencils:Bud Thompson
Inks:Bud Thompson
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mr. Burns (school Principal); Mr. Winbot (market owner); Mr. Wright (car dealer); Bud (villain); Jack (villain)
Synopsis:After saving a young man from falling down a sewer opening, Captain Marvel, Jr. learns that $4000 is needed to buld the kids a really swell playground that would keep them off the streets and being seriously injured.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Red-Ball Shoes
Pages:1
Pencils:Max Elkan ? [as ELK] (signed)
Inks:Max Elkan ? [as ELK] (signed)
Genre:sports


Story Title: Can't Put a Candle To Him! - comic story
Features:Boxcar Benny
Pages:0.5
Genre:humor
Characters:Boxcar Benny
Synopsis:Benny decides on having dessert after his meal.


Story Title: No Seer! - comic story
Features:Rubbernose Randolph
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Art Helfant
Inks:Art Helfant
Genre:humor
Characters:Rubbernose Randolph; crystal gazer
Synopsis:A crystal gazer asks Rubbernose for directions to the location that his tent is set up.


Story Title: At Sea - cartoon
Features:Whippersnappers
Pages:1
Pencils:W. Jourdain ?
Inks:W. Jourdain ?
Genre:humor
Characters:a ship's Captain
Synopsis:A series of mostly nonsequential cartoons having to do with the sea.


Story Title: Captain Marvel Jr. Puts On the Pressure - comic story
Features:Captain Marvel Jr.
Pages:6.66
Pencils:Bud Thompson
Inks:Bud Thompson
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mr. Oakes (publisher of the Daily Record); J. B. Ridgewood (villain, owner of the Daily Chronicle); Wrist (villain, Ridgewood's circulation manager)
Synopsis:The owner and circulation manager of the Daily Chronicle decides to eliminate their competition, not knowing that the lame newspaperboy working for the Record is acually Captain Marvel Jr.!


Story Title: Annoucing the New Bendix Coaster Brake - advertisement
Features:Bendix Aviation Corporation
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Football Foolishness - cartoon
Features:Whipper-Snappers
Pages:1
Pencils:W. Jourdain
Inks:W. Jourdain
Genre:humor; sports


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photo)
Inks:? (photo)
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Boxcar Bennie Doesn't Give Up Easy! - comic story
Features:Boxcar Benny
Pages:0.5
Genre:humor
Characters:Boxcar Benny; Hank (fellow hobo)
Synopsis:Benny tells Hank that being a hobo isn't what it's cracked up to be.


Story Title: The Matted Story Is Shaping Up - comic story
Features:The Snortville Sneeze
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Sid Lazarus
Inks:Sid Lazarus
Genre:humor
Characters:newspaper editor; Gloria (reporter)
Synopsis:Gloria is told to go out and get a really unusual story as all of her recent stories have been far too commonplace.


Story Title: Texan Guns - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:western-frontier
Characters:Sheriff Ted Bates; Lawson (accused murderer)); Jeff Donnell (villain, mob leader); Red Thompson (villain)
Synopsis:The Sheriff and his deputies must hold off a mob itching to string up a man named Lawson, accused murderer of Jeff Donnell's father.


Story Title: Captain Marvel, Jr. Faces a Grave Situation - comic story
Features:Captain Marvel Jr.
Pages:9.66
Pencils:Bud Thompson
Inks:Bud Thompson; Bob Rogers (backgrounds)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mrs. Thompson; Mrs. Bradford; The Great Bernardo (villain, sculptor)
Synopsis:As a Newsboy Club Initiation rite, Freddy must take a walk through a cemetery at night and falls into two graves, graves belonging to deceased bankers. Later, Captain Marvel Jr. discovers that a greedy sculptor had exhumed the bodies and dipped them into molten copper to make life-like statues to sell to their wealthy widows!


Story Title: The Mountain Climbers! - advertisement
Features:Snap, Krackle and Pop
Pages:1
Genre:adventure
Characters:Snap; Krackle; Pop


Story Title: Let Me Show You, Too, How To Make Yourself Commando Tough! - advertisement
Features:George F. Jowett
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photos)
Inks:? (photos)
Letters:typeset
Characters:George F. Jowett (photo); A. Passamont (photo); Rex Ferris (photo)


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum
Pages:1


Story Title: Helps Betty Make New Friends - advertisement
Features:Merilee Peddles
Pages:1
Pencils:Milt Youngren (signed)
Inks:Milt Youngren (signed)
Characters:Merilee Peddles; Betty; Betty's Mom; Betty's Dad


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