I've lined up a week of stories from Fawcett, publishers of
Captain Marvel, The Marvel Family, Captain Marvel Jr, and
Captain Midnight, all of which I'll be showing during my usual postings through Friday.
First up, the Marvel Family “Battles the Hissing Horror.” In this instance the “horror,” the Hissmen, look more like Albert the Alligator than evil sentient reptiles from a million years ago, but that's because despite the title, the cartoony art* dispersed any real horror. The Hissmen come bent on conquest from the dinosaur era, through a time tunnel which Billy, Freddy and Mary, and their friend Dexter, discover.
It's a very entertaining story, written by Otto Binder.
P.S. Does it look to you like Mary Marvel is taking a bloody shot to the head on the cover? No such scene appears in the comic book. In the period before Fawcett, publisher also of crime and horror comics, closed down their comic book line in 1953, horror elements were used on the covers.
From
The Marvel Family #74 (1952):
*I had originally credited Kurt Schaffenberger as artist. In the comments section of this post R.A.M. '67 credits C. C. Beck, and after another look at the story I agree with him. The GCD credits Pete Costanza with a question mark.
