Captain Marvel Jr. [Mighty Midget Comic]

A single-issue oddity from 1943, Captain Marvel Jr. [Mighty Midget Comic] was published by the Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited as part of their digest-sized "Mighty Midget" line. The series features the teen hero Captain Marvel Jr., a character then popular in Fawcett Comics' main titles, and represents a wartime-era attempt to package superhero adventures in a compact, low-cost format. Though it lasted only one issue, it stands as a curious artifact of the Golden Age's international licensing and the era's enthusiasm for pocket-sized comic books.