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Shazam! Vol. 5 3 (Cover A)

SHAZAM! VOL. 5 #3

Cover Date: November 2023
Cover Price: $3.99
Publication Date: 2023-09-05

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Cover Credits:
Art: Dan Mora (signed)


Variant Covers:
Cover B
(Card Stock Variant)
Art: Chris Samnee (signed)
Colors: Matheus Lopes (signed)
Cover C
(Card Stock Variant)
Art: John Timms (signed)
Cover D
(1:25 Card Stock Variant)
Art: Carla Cohen (signed)

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Story: "Meet the Captain!, Chapter Three" (20 Pages)

Credits:

StoryMark Waid
ArtDan Mora
LetteringTroy Peteri
ColorsAlejandro Sánchez
Assistant editingRebecca Bohanan
EditingPaul Kaminski

Feature Character(s):

The Captain (last in Knight Terrors: Night's End #1)
Mary Marvel (last in Knight Terrors: Shazam! #2)

Supporting Character(s):

Darla Dudley (last in Knight Terrors: Shazam! #2)
Eugene Choi (last in Knight Terrors: Shazam! #2)
Freddy Freeman (last in Knight Terrors: Shazam! #2; also in flashback in between issue #2 and in Knight Terrors: Shazam! #2)
Tawky Tawny (next in issue #7)

Villain(s):

Solomon (also in flashback in between issue #2 and main story)
Hercules (also in flashback in between issue #2 and main story)
Achilles (also in flashback in between issue #2 and main story)
Zeus (also in flashback in between issue #2 and main story)
Atlas (also in flashback in between issue #2 and main story)
Mercury (also in flashback in between issue #2 and main story)
Garguax (last in Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #18)
Garguax' Unvanquishable Army (first appearance)

Guest Appearance(s):

Plastic Man (last/next in ???)

Other Character(s):

Mr. Dinosaur (the space dinosaur; called Mr. Space Dinosaur by the Darla in this story and just Mr. Dinosaur by the entire family starting in issue #4)
Gorillas of Simian City
Joddor (first appearance)
Bakabor (first appearance; Joddor's adjunct)
Rongar (first appearance)
Ted (first appearance)

Cameo Appearance(s):

Aquaman (on a poster)
Batman (on two posters)
Flash (on a poster)
Metamorpho (on a fan web page)
Solomon Grundy (in a nightmare)
Superman (on a poster)
Wonder Woman (on two posters)
Super Friends (on a Super Friends poster)
Apache Chief
Batman
Black Vulcan
Green Lantern
Robin
Samurai
Superman
Gleek the Space Monkey

Location(s):

Earth
United States of America
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Fawcett City
Vasquez home
Fawcett High School
Gorilla City
Simian Island
Moon
Garguax's Moon Base
Rock of Eternity

Comment(s):

Story continues in the next issue.

Solicitation:

TO AFRICA AND BEYOND! The gullible spirit of Atlas is guiding the Captain into a battle between Garguax, the emperor of the moon, and a band of superintelligent apes who have separated from Gorilla City in a mass Grexit! With the Earth at stake, will Billy Batson find some way to end a war that he himself started?


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Additional Variant Covers

Cover E
(1:50 Card Stock Variant)
Art: Edwin Galmon (signed)
Cover F
(Hispanic Heritage Month Card Stock Variant)
Art: Pablo Villalobos (signed)
Colors: Mostafa Moussa (signed)