Captain Marvel Swan
Captain Marvel Adventures 91
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Captain Marvel Adventures 91 Universal
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Grade:
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9.0
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Page Quality:
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CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Crowley Copy
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Certification #:
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0074302007
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Owner:
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David Swan1
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Currently Tied as the Highest Graded Copy of this Issue. The other 9.0 is also a Crowley copy.
(Published) December 1948
(Cover) C.C. Beck
9 page Captain Marvel
"The War Between the Planets"
(Pencils and Inks) C.C. Beck
A message is received emanating from outside the solar system imploring Captain Marvel for help to prevent a cataclysm on a planetary scale. Using a telescope Cap can see a battle being waged between two distant planets and so flies through space to help arriving in a few short hours. When Cap arrives the planets leaders seem none too keen on stopping the war even locking up the scientist who called on Captain Marvel. Instead they launch a final planetary destroying bomb at the rival planet. Cap disarms the bomb and heads to the other planet which also has a planet destroyer at the ready. The other planet is swayed by Cap's logic particularly when he tells them the the destruction of either planet will destroy the other from meteor showers from the exploding planet. Cap hatches a plan and creates a huge meteor that he throws at the first planet. He rescues the scientist that called him from an execution squad and then points out the meteor hurtling towards the planet. Panic turns to shock as the meteor is destroyed by a missile launched from the rival planet and with that a peace treaty is quickly signed and everything ends happy and well.
1/2 page Dopey Danny Dee story
"Toasted"
(Script/Pencils/Inks) George Marko
7 page Captain Marvel
"The Chameleon Stone"
(Pencils) C.C. Beck
(Inks) Pete Costanza?
(Reprinted) Adventure Comics Digest (DC, 1982 series) #501 (July 1983)
An Indian wise man tells some children about a strange stone with a chameleon design. It is in the home of noted archaeologist Cranshaw Jeffers. Jeffers tells another man a legend that the stone can transform into any other object. The man laughs it off but then tests out the legend and changes the stone into a huge diamond. Seeing the infinite possibilities the man shoots Jeffers alerting Billy Batson who was walking past the house. Billy transforms to Captain Marvel but the killer transforms the stone into a spotlight and blinds Cap before escaping in a car transformed from the stone. Later, the killer parks the chameleon stone car and a parking attendant inadvertently changes it into a plane and flies off. The parking attendant can't control the plan so Cap rescues the man and leaves the plane on top of a building. The killer takes off in the airplane and flies a distance away before changing it into a parachute and after landing, into a mansion. The killer decides a stone that can transform into anything isn't enough and tries to smash it into smaller stones that could conceivably each have the same power. Instead the stone shatters to dusk killing the man and imprinting the chameleon design on his forehead.
6 page Captain Marvel "Man's Worst Enemy"
(Script) Otto Binder
(Pencils/Inks) C.C. Beck
Mr. Morris tells Billy he can't pay the mortgage on the building and he's going to lose WHIZ. When Billy comes to the office the next day Morris is gone and based on a newspaper clipping believes Mr. Morris has fled to the south pacific. He has indeed flown to a near deserted island occupied only by a pair of Robinson Crusoe type men who claim the island is essentially a paradise. Capt Marvel arrives and one of the men tries to brain him only to get socked in the jaw. I stand corrected, there is a whole colony of men who fled from civilization and even Cap considers the benefits of staying. The men just laze around without shaving. Cap tries to convince them to come back to civilization because quite frankly they look slovenly and have no self respect. He sketched out a picture of how bad Mr. Morris will look in a few weeks and the sight convinces Morris. Marvel then creates an earthquake and the men have to fight against their own laziness to build a raft and escape. The effort has restored their self respect and a passing ship picks them up. In the end it turned out Morris's financial problems were nothing at all.
2 page Jon Jarl text "Jaunt On Jupiter"
(Script)Otto Binder [as Eando Binder]
8 page Captain Marvel "The Mightiest Sea-Mortal"
(Pencils) C.C. Beck
(Inks) Kurt Shaffenberger
The story opens with a tale of Zeus driving some invading mermen back into the sea but before they leave one of them manages to grab an errant lightning bolt. Flash forward to 1948 and the mermen are having issues with their oxygen crop not producing enough oxygen. Meanwhile, Billy is assisting Prof Dookle with his bathysphere. Dookle descends to the bottom of the ocean and starts gathering plants inadvertently destroying some oxygen plants. One of the enormous mermen grabs the bathysphere cable and snaps it in two. Dookle sends a message requesting help and Capt Marvel dives into the ocean. He finds the bathysphere being dragged by two mermen and punches the two but one grabs a squid and sprays ink allowing them to escape.
Cap finds a sealed cave. Meanwhile, Dookle is brought before the mermen leader and sentenced to death. Marvel arrives and overturns the verdict and then punches the merman in the belly. He responds by grabbing the bolt he took years earlier. The bolt changes Marvel back to Billy and he gets smacked down. Billy wakes up entangled in vines and changes back to Capt Marvel. He punches down the merman leader and offers to give them oxygen tanks until their oxygen plants regrow. In response the mermen send Dookle an oxygen plant of his own.
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