Master Comics No. 97
date: label: Date made
content: 1948-11
name: label: publisher
content: Master Comics
label: Associated Name
content: Mix, Tom
label: maker
content: Fawcett Publications, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <i>Master Comics No. 97</i> features the Captain Marvel Jr. adventure “The Doubting Thomas Doubter.” Kurt Schaffenberger provided art for the story and the issue’s cover, which depicts Captain Marvel Jr. flying down an alleyway chasing two men, while a third lays prone on the ground. The issue also contains the Nyoka the Jungle Girl story “Nature’s Murderer!,” “Dressed to Kill!” featuring Bulletman, “Employment Escapade,” and the Tom Mix western “Suspected.”
label: Description
content: <i>Captain Marvel Jr. </i> was introduced in 1941’s <i>Whiz Comics No. 25.</i> Orginally a boy named Freddy Freeman, Captain Marvel Jr. was given his powers by the original Captain Marvel, the 1940’s best-selling superhero.
label: Description
content: Tom Mix was an actor who starred in over 290 Western movies in the early days of Hollywood. Known as “King of the Cowboys” his onscreen persona was the subject of many action-oriented comic book interpretations.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
label: Subject
content: Captain Marvel
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.3006.05
label: nonaccession number
content: 2007.3006
label: catalog number
content: 2007.3006.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book, Comic
label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 6 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 16.51 cm