Lieutenant Marvels

Lieutenant Marvels
Lieutenant Marvels
	Captain Marvel and his three Lieutenant Marvels (left to right: Lt. Hill Marvel, Lt. Fat Marvel, and Lt. Tall Marvel) on the cover of Whiz Comics #29 (April 1942) by C. C. Beck.
Publication information
Publisher	Fawcett Comics (1941–1953) ; DC Comics (1972–1985)
First appearance	Whiz Comics #21 (September 1941)
Created by	C. C. Beck
In-story information
Base(s)	Fawcett City; Rock of Eternity;
Member(s)	Lt. Tall Marvel ("Tall" Billy Batson); Lt. Fat Marvel ("Fat" Billy Batson); Lt. Hill Marvel ("Hill" Billy Batson); Captain Marvel (Billy Batson)

The Lieutenant Marvels are fictional characters, a team of superheroes in the Fawcett Comics and DC Comics universes. They first appeared in Whiz Comics #21 in 1941. The physical appearance of the three characters was based on three real-life members of the Fawcett Comics staff: Paul Peck (Tall Billy), Ed Hamilton (Hill Billy), and Frank Taggart (Fat Billy).^[1]

^ C.C. Beck, "The Human Qualities of the Captain Marvel Characters" in Fawcett Companion, ed. P.C. Hamerlinck (Raleigh, NC: TwoMorrows Publishing, 2001), 28–29.

[1] C.C. Beck, "The Human Qualities of the Captain Marvel Characters" in Fawcett Companion, ed. P.C. Hamerlinck (Raleigh, NC: TwoMorrows Publishing, 2001), 28–29.

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