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Mary Marvel

167 appearances · Golden Age · 1943–2025 · 6 key issues

Who is Mary Marvel?

Few Golden Age heroines have endured quite like Mary Marvel, who burst onto the scene in Wow Comics #9 in 1943 and has been captivating readers ever since. Born of that electrifying Fawcett Comics era, she's gone on to rack up 167 catalog appearances across an extraordinary 82-year span — a testament to just how deeply she's woven herself into the fabric of superhero mythology. Her adventures most frequently unfold in Billy Batson & the Magic of Shazam! and World's Finest Comics, where she keeps remarkable company alongside Captain Marvel, Billy Batson, Freddy Freeman, Green Lantern, and The Flash. With six key-issue appearances flagging her as a genuine collector's prize, Mary Marvel is one of the Golden Age's most compelling figures — a trailblazer whose star has never stopped shining.

Covers through the years — 1943–2001

1943

Captain Marvel Adventures #21

2001

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Appearances (most recent 150 of 167)

52 (2006)

#50

Wow Comics (1940)

#9 #30 #34

Bulletman (1941)

#11

Whiz Comics (1940)

#39

Hopalong Cassidy (1943)

Captain Marvel Adventures (1941)

#21 #31 #37 #65

Spy Smasher Comics (1942)

Captain Marvel Jr. (1942)

#28 #48

Camera Comics (1944)

#5 (5)

Ibis (1942)

Hoppy the Marvel Bunny (1945)

Mary Marvel (1945)

George Pal's Puppetoons (1945)

The Marvel Family (1945)

#7 #20 #21 #72

Xmas Comics (1941)

Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds (1956)

The Steranko History of Comics (1970)

Limited Collectors' Edition (1972)

#C-35

Shazam! (1973)

#28

The Amazing World of DC Comics (1974)

#17

Elson's Presents Super Heroes Comics (1981)

#1 #2 #3

DC Comics Presents (1978)

#33 #34 #38

World's Finest Comics (1941)

#272 #276 #277 #278 #279 #280 #281 #282

Adventure Comics (1938)

#491 #492

Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (1985)

#14 #21

normalman - Megaton Man Special (1994)

The Power of SHAZAM! (1995)

#12 #26

Supergirl Plus (1997)

JLA (1997)

#41

A DC Universe Christmas (2000)

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Great American Comic Books (2001)

#[nn]

Bizarro Comics (2001)

#[nn]#[nn]

The Titans (1999)

#39

JLA / JSA: Virtue and Vice (2002)

#[nn]#[nn]

Formerly Known as the Justice League (2003)

Identity Crisis (2004)

#1 #[nn]

JLA: Classified (2005)

Solo (2004)

I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League (2005)

#[nn]

Plastic Man (2004)

#20

Crisis on Multiple Earths (2002)

Infinite Crisis Companion (2006)

#[nn]

Showcase Presents: Shazam (2007)

The Complete normalman (2007)

Countdown (2007)

#47 #40 #5 #6

World War III (2007)

#[nn]

Countdown to Final Crisis (2008)

#1 #2 #3 #4

Billy Batson & the Magic of Shazam! (2008)

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21

Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil (2009)

#[nn]

Justice League of America (2006)

#43

DCU: Legacies (2010)

#5 #6 #9 #10

The All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2011)

Comic Book Comics (2008)

Tiny Titans (2008)

#37 #40 #50

DC Comics Presents: The Teen Titans (2011)

DC Universe: Legacies (2011)

#[nn]#[nn]

Bizarre Thrills: The Paragon Publications Story (2012)

Tiny Titans: Aw Yeah Titans! (2013)

#[nn]

Solo: The Deluxe Edition (2013)

#[nn]

JSA Omnibus (2014)

Tiny Titans: Return to the Treehouse (2014)

#3 #6

Detective Comics (2011)

#37

Convergence Shazam (2015)

#1 #2

Convergence: Infinite Earths (2015)

Gwandanaland Comics (2016)

#430 #431 #433 #434 #2331-A #1092

Splitting Image 80-page Giant (2017)

#[nn]

Young Justice (2017)

#1 #3

JSA by Geoff Johns (2018)

Shazam!: The World's Mightiest Mortal (2019)

#2 #3

The Power of Shazam! (2020)

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight The Deluxe Edition (2020)

#[nn]

Flash Facts (2021)

#[nn]

Bizarro Comics: The Deluxe Edition (2021)

#[nn]

Teen Titans Academy (2021)

#7 #8 #11

The New Champion of Shazam! (2022)

#2 #3 #4

normalman Fortieth Anniversary Omnibus (2024)

#[nn]

Titans (2023)

PS Artbooks Softee: Ibis the Invincible (2024)

Batgirl (2025)