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==Early life== C. C. Beck was born on June 8, 1910, in [[Zumbrota, Minnesota]]. Beck's father was a [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] minister and his mother was a schoolteacher.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Illustrator C.C. Beck creator of Captain Marvel (who arrives when Billy Batson "Shazam!") |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/CC_Beck.html |access-date=February 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421193536/http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/CC_Beck.html |archive-date=April 21, 2015 |url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref name="latimes">{{cite news |title=C. C. Beck, 79; Creator of Captain Marvel |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-24-mn-33-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 24, 1989 |access-date=February 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304055255/http://articles.latimes.com/1989-11-24/news/mn-33_1_captain-marvel |archive-date=March 4, 2014}}</ref> He had two older sisters. When he was 15, his family moved to [[West Bend, Wisconsin]].<ref name="streetwise">{{cite book |last1=Cooke |first1=Jon B. |last2=Morrow |first2=John |date=2000 |title=Streetwise |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ac2-fPfVEM4C&pg=PA59 |location=Raleigh, North Carolina |publisher=[[TwoMorrows Publishing]] |page=59 |isbn=1-893905-04-7}}</ref> He studied at the [[Chicago Academy of Fine Arts]] and the [[University of Minnesota]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Hamerlinck |first=Paul |date=2001 |title=Fawcett Companion: The Best of FCA |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8z-CaR1OdcC&pg=PA135 |location=Raleigh, North Carolina |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |page=135 |isbn=1-893905-10-1}}</ref> and also took an art correspondence course.<ref name="streetwise" />
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