Master Comics No. 97: Museum Object and Cultural History
Master Comics No. 97: Date made: 1948-11. publisher: Master Comics. Associated Name: Mix, Tom.
The object in the museum catalogue
Master Comics No. 97 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.”
Captain Marvel Jr. was introduced in 1941’s Whiz Comics No. 25. Orginally a boy named Freddy Freeman, Captain Marvel Jr. was given his powers by the original Captain Marvel, the 1940’s best-selling superhero.
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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1948-11
- publisher: Master Comics
- Associated Name: Mix, Tom
- maker: Fawcett Publications, Inc.
- Object Name: Book, Comic
- Object Name: comic book
- Measurements: overall: 10 in x 6 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 16.51 cm
- Subject: Comics
- Subject: Captain Marvel
- ID Number: 2007.3006.05
- nonaccession number: 2007.3006
- catalog number: 2007.3006.05
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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