This is Comic Geekspeak episode 1699.

Spotlight on Shazam in the Atomic Age.

You got it on Wednesday, and it was like about it going to the bumble.

These guys will talk about it, everything the geeks love.

What case the laser beats? A plane's like the planes like the seas On everything you read. And comic, movie, games, Toy, artists, come. Comic, speak, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, geek speak. Come, come, come, come, come, Deep. United in the world's mightiest heroes.

This is...

I'm Adam Murdo.

And I'm Chris Everley.

Welcome to the show, folks out there in Radio Land. Here's Adam Murdo, your head lecturer for this last in a series of looks at the adventures of Captain Marvel and his Marvel family in the comics of Fawcett publications in their heyday of the 1940s and 50s. And with me, for the ride on this final installment is adjunct professor and co-leturer Chris Everley. How are you doing tonight, Chris? Brother, I'm splendid, especially since I'm doing this with you. I've been looking forward to this for some time. And like I said, I'm honored to be your adjutant in this. Looking forward to it immensely. Oh, your help will be much needed, Chris, as we move forward here into this last

heady era of, well, the last years of this once-hedy era, I suppose, I should say, sadly,

of the Golden Age run of Captain Marvel and the Marvel family from Fawcett.

Indeed.

Yep, this episode will cover the last few years of that run,

to wit 1950 through 1953, from the beginning of the fabulous 50s through that sad day

when Fawcett publications finally decided to throw in the towel and close down their comic

books publishing arm entirely, allowing the Marvel family and all their costumed friends and supporting

cast to slip into limbo for two whole decades.

All right, and I don't want to waste any time at all here, so we're proceeding with the

speed of Mercury to get right into these last four years worth of comics here.

These years do constitute the kind of the decline and fall of the Fawcett publishing empire,

although Fawcett did continue to exist after they stopped publishing comics.

They did magazines primarily, all the way up through the latter 70s when they sold their operation lock, stock, and barrel,

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