COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Captain Marvel Adventures 71 Universal
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Grade:
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9.2
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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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0083595017
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Owner:
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David Swan1
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Tied with two other comics for second highest grade after a pair of 9.2's.
(Published) April 1947
(Cover) C.C. Beck
12 page Captain Marvel story
"The Adventure in Time"
(Writer) Otto Binder
(Pencils) C.C. Beck
(Inks) Pete Costanza
Billy Batson get four different invites for Capt Marvel from four places around the world to celebrate Capt Marvel day. In fact, despite being in different time zones they are all at the same moment. Cap decides to call on the Lieutenant Marvels to take his place at the other three locations. These are three boys named Billy Batson who can all change into a version of Capt Marvel when they are all together. Fat Marvel is sent to Washington, Hill Marvel goes to Paris, Tall Marvel heads off to Moscow while Cap himself goes to Chungking.
Sivana sees an article about Capt Marvel day and decides to use his Instantaneous Rocket Ship to sabotage all four celebrations. Fat Marvel shows up in D.C. while Sivana is busy pricking a hole in an enormous Capt Marvel balloon. It collapses, threaten to suffocate people but Fat Marvel pulls it away. Sivana flees to his rocket and flies off to Paris assuming that Marvel wont be there since he's in D.C. In Paris, Sivana tries to bring down the Eiffel tower but Hill Marvel chases him away as the evil scientist heads to Moscow. Sivana tosses a bomb into a crowd in Moscow but it hits Tall Billy in the back of the head and he snuffs it out. Finally, Sivana escapes to China and hides inside a dragon float. Meanwhile, Cap has learned that an attack has occurred at the other three celebrations and is on the lookout for trouble. He see poison gas escaping from the paper dragon and rips it open to reveal Sivana.
Sivan is furious and perplexed at how Cap was in four places at once so Marvel explains how he worked with the Lieutenant Marvels. Sivana shows him how HE was able to be in four places and then hops in his rocket but before he can escape Cap rips the motor off. The rocket is still able to fly but Marvel pursues and tears off the auxiliary motor and captures Sivana. Cap is amused by the fact that they crossed the international date line and he's arresting Sivana on Tuesday for a crime he committed on Wednesday. Sivana is nonplussed.
7 page Captain Marvel story
"Captain Marvel Traps a Sleepwalker"
(Script) Bill Woolfolk
(Pencils) C.C. Beck
(Inks) Pete Costanza
Billy finishes typing his radio script and transforms to take it to WHIZ. It's funny that Cap feels like Billy is taking advantage of him. Feeling tired, Marvel decides to return to his apartment and take a nap. Later, Billy goes to retrieve his script from the WHIZ safe but it's gone. That evening, Cap stakes out WHIZ to try and catch the thief but starts getting sleepy again. He spots a man in the dark and punches him but the main declares his innocence. Turns out he's a private detective named Sloane, hired by Mr. Morris. With Sloane on the job, Cap decides to take another nap. Later still, Sloan spots Marvel and calls to him with no response. He eventually responds and the two find that Billy's script is once again missing and Sloane starts to suspect Cap.
The next day Sloane is checking out the safe and Marvel becomes suspicious. That night Sloane finds Cap sleepwalking and when he wakes he thinks that Sloane is the thief. He carriers Sloane off to jail but when they get there Sloane asks Cap to wash his hands. When he does his hands turn blue which was a trap Sloane used to catch the thief. Turns out Marvel was unwittingly the Phantom Thief and the mystery is solved.
13 page Captain Marvel story
"The End of the World"
(Script) Otto Binder
(Pencils) C.C. Beck
Billy is sent out to do a story on Joachim Jybber, a man who has prophesied the end of the world. When Billy arrives, a small group of Joachim's followers are leaving, saying that he constantly fails in his predictions. Joachim is adamant that the Earth will end on the next day and claims his crystal ball told him it will be due to Atomic Power. In fact, Joachim has created an escape rocket so he will be the only one who survives. Billy tries to stop him from getting on the ship but gets knocked unconscious and put on the ship. When Billy wakes they are in the air but the rocket starts to plummet towards Earth. Billy transforms and scoops the old man out before the ship crashes. The old man scolds Marvel saying that he has only delayed his doom by a few hours.
Marvel scoops up Jaochim and takes him to a nearby village which turns out to be in Tibet. Cap can't understand the locals so he goes to a library and teaches himself the language. He tries to ask a local where they are at but the man trips and turns his ankle so Cap carries him back to his laboratory. Meanwhile, Joachim is trying to convince the locals to repent for the hour of doom is upon them. We find out the man Marvel was inquiring from is a scientist who created two proton bombs which are 1000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb. Marvel carriers the man to a testing site and he sets the timer for a test. However, two other men steal the bombs will Marvel and the Asian man have their backs turned. They belt the scientist in the back of the head and take off. The scientists tells Cap that he just determined that if the bombs blow off they will create a chain reaction that will destroy the world.
The thieves try to take off in a plane but Cap tears off the tail and punches the two out. The bombs roll into a crevice and Marvel struggles to find them with only an hour to spare. Cap manages to find one of the bombs with just a minute left but it turns out it's the other bomb that's about to explode. The second bomb explodes causing a chain reaction that eventually bursts the world asunder. Seriously. Marvel is in space surrounded by the wreckage of our planet. Cap is lamenting the destruction of the Earth when he notices an untouched planet behind him. It turns out when Marvel and Jybber flew away in their rocket they landed on a duplicate Earth (that apparently was right next to our Earth) and that Earth exploded. Cap bemoans the death of Jybber but such is life.
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