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Adventure Comics #497
Mar 1983 • DC Comics • $1.25 • Digest • 100 pgs.
On Sale Thursday, December 9, 1982

Cover Credits

Penciller:
Gil Kane
Inker:
Gil Kane

Story/Feature

The Mighty Marvels Join Forces!

Item Solicitation

The Shazam! story: “The Mighty Marvels Join Forces,” from MARVEL FAMILY #1. Gil Kane did the front cover and Paris Cullins and Frank Giacoia did the back.

Story/Feature

4. The Mighty Marvels Join Forces! (15 pages)

Writer	Penciller	Inker	Editor
Otto O. Binder	C. C. Beck	C. C. Beck	Wendell Crowley

Story Notes

GCD: Introduction and origin of Black Adam (Teth-Adam); with Shazam and Uncle Marvel; first Marvel Family story, but Marvel Family first appears in Captain Marvel Adventures #18; retells origins of Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel, Junior, and Mary Marvel.

Cast List

Marvel Family Hero:
Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel, Jr., Mary Marvel, Shazam, Uncle Marvel
Marvel Family Villain:
Black Adam
Marvel Family Supporting Cast:
Sterling Morris

• Reprinted in SHAZAM! #8 - Dec 1973 (DC Comics)

• Reprinted in SHAZAM! FROM THE 40'S TO THE '70S #1 - Jan 1977 (Harmony Books)

• Reprinted in SHAZAM! AND THE SHAZAM! FAMILY ANNUAL #1 - Sep 2002 (DC Comics)