Monday, April 15, 2013

Captain Marvel Jr. (1952 Story Listings)

As we wind down our listing of Captain Marvel Jr. stories a couple of things become evident. One instead of decreasing in story quality some of the best Cap Jr. stories appear during this time. William Woolfolk contributes some very imaginative and mature scripts which continued to stretch the limits of the Captain Marvel Jr. formula. Captain Marvel Jr. #108-112 were completely scripted by Woolfolk. Second Bud Thompson does some of the best art of his career on Cap Jr.  Was there a sense among the editorial staff that Fawcett was going to soon pull the plug on their comics line and the editors, writers and artists wanted to go out on a high note—a blaze of glory— before the end came?
Perhaps we'll never know.


1952

Captain Marvel Jr. #105, January 1952

543. CMJ Battles the Spacemaster (8 pp)
Art: Joe Certa? (GCD)** Bud Thompson (DC)

544. The History Hoax (7 pp)
Art: Joe Certa (GCD)*

545. The Invisible Guest (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*

Master Comics #126, February 1952

546. The Panther Man (7 pp)
Art: Bill Ward (GCD)*

Captain Marvel Jr. #106, February 1952

547. The City in the Mirage (8 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*  Script: Bill Woolfolk

548. The Two Headed Boy (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*

549. The World's Greatest Salesman (6 pp)
Art: Joe Certa (GCD)*

Captain Marvel Jr. #107, March 1952

550. The World's Mightiest Whale (8 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*

551. The Horror Dimension (6 pp)
Art: Joe Certa (GCD)*

552. CMJ Gets Lazy (7 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*

Master Comics #127,  April 1952

553. The Human Cargo (7 pp)
Art: ? (GCD)  Bill Ward (DE)

Captain Marvel Jr. #108, April 1952

554.The World of Babel  (8 pp)  Script: Bill Woolfolk
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*

555.  Freddy Freeman’s Lost Week End (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*  Script: Bill Woolfolk

556. The Great Sandstorm  (7 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*  Script: Bill Woolfolk

Captain Marvel Jr. #109, May 1952

557. Yblees The Planet Hunter   (7 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)* Script: Bill Woolfolk

558.  CMJ Meets the Littlest Giant  (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)* Script: Bill Woolfolk

559. The Horrible Nightmare of Freddy Freeman   (7 pp)
Art: Joe Certa (GCD)*  Script: Bill Woolfolk

Master Comics #128,  June 1952

560 The Panther Man's Trap (7 pp)
Art: ? (GCD) Bill Ward (DE)

Captain Marvel Jr. #110, June 1952

561. World's Most Unpopular Boy   (7 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)* Script: Bill Woolfolk

562. The Derby Donkey  (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)* Script: Bill Woolfolk

563. The Gigantic Buzzsaw  (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)* Script: Bill Woolfolk

Captain Marvel Jr. #111, July 1952

564. Ambassador To Pluto   (8 pp)
Art: Joe Certa (GCD)*    Writer: Bill Woolfolk  (GCD)

565. A Day in the Life of Captain Marvel Jr.  (7 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (DE)  ?(GCD)   Writer: Bill Woolfolk   (GCD)

566. The Menace of the Miser  (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (DE)  ? (GCD)    Writer: Bill Woolfolk   (GCD)

Master Comics #129,  August 1952

567 The Underwater Mountain Mystery (7 pp)
Art: Bill Ward? (GCD)* Sheldon Moldoff (DE)

Captain Marvel Jr. #112, August 1952

568. Battle in the Roman Arena (8 pp)
Art: Joe Certa (GCD)*   Script: Bill Woolfolk

569. Professor Edgewise Happy Smoke (7 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*  Script: Bill Woolfolk

570. Sivana Jr's New Dimension  (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*  Script: Bill Woolfolk

Captain Marvel Jr. #113, September 1952

571. Captain Smollett's Treasure (8 pp)
Art: Joe Certa (GCD)*  Script: Bill Woolfolk

572,  The Moving Mountain (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)* Script: Bill Woolfolk

573. The World's Mightiest Shadow (7 pp)
Art: Joe Certa (GCD)** Bud Thompson (DE)

Master Comics #130,  October 1952

574. Calling All Cops (7 pp)
Art: Bill Ward (?) (GCD)**  Sheldon Moldoff (DE)

Captain Marvel Jr. #114, October 1952

575. The Train That Traveled Through Space (7 pp)
Art: Joe Certa (GCD)*

576, The Ruler of the Earth (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*

577. Sir Edgewise in King Arthur's Court (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*

Captain Marvel Jr. #115, November 1952

578. The Mad Mongol Monster (8 pp)
Art: Joe Certa (GCD)*

579, The Thousand Eyed Idol of Doom (7 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*

580. Curse of the Fire Demon (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*

Master Comics #131,  December 1952

581. The Deadly Fraud (7 pp)
Art: Bill Ward (GCD)*  Script: Bill Ward

Captain Marvel Jr. #116, December 1952

582. The Space Voters (7 pp)
Art: Joe Certa (GCD)*

583, Vampira, Queen of Terror ( 6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*

584. The Scientist From the Future (6 pp)
Art: Bud Thompson (GCD)*

2 comments:

  1. We just got MASTER COMICS #79 at the DCM, but are missing pages from the Nyoka story. If you could provide scans, we'd be much obliged.

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  2. I have Master Comics #78 and #79 scheduled for upload to this site over the next several months. They will be complete issues.

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