Captain Marvel Swan
Captain Marvel Adventures 72
Return to Image Gallery >
|
COMIC DETAILS
|
Comic Description:
|
Captain Marvel Adventures 72 Universal
|
|
Grade:
|
9.4
|
|
Page Quality:
|
OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
|
|
Certification #:
|
1296356003
|
|
Owner:
|
David Swan1
|
SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Tied with two other comics for second highest grade after a pair of 9.2's.
(Published) May 1947
(Cover) C.C. Beck
8 page Captain Marvel story
"Captain Marvel Judges the Dog Show"
(Writer) Bill Woolfolk
A couple of boys mock the dog of a boy named Jimmy. The boy punches one of the bullies in the face and his dog attacks their larger dog. Billy Batson sees the fight as it starts to go badly for Jimmy and speaks his magic word. Capt Marvel breaks up the fight and Jimmy is very appreciative. Marvel decides to keep an eye on Jimmy in case the bullies return. Jimmy's dog ends up running into the street and is nearly hit by a truck but Cap stops the truck but not before a dog that Rover was running with had its leg broken. Marvel rushes Boxer to the hospital and the doctor says he'll be as good as new. The owner is thrilled and tells Jimmy that Rover can come over any time to visit.
Jimmy visits the lady but the dogs don't get along and the readers can hear them speaking. The woman's dog is a snob and an awarding winning dog but can't compete because of his broken leg. Without Boxer's prize money she won't be able to afford to keep her dogs and a man offers to buy her kennel but she says she enter a different dog and the man leaves in a huff. Rover bites the man in the rear and sends him running as he yells back threats.
Capt Marvel agrees to judge the dog show and Jimmy decides to go to the dog show to see Marvel and brushes Rover to make him look nice. When Jimmy arrives at the dog show the man from earlier offers to buy Rover but Jimmy unsurprisingly declines. However, given the interest shown Jimmy decides to enter Rover in the show. For reasons, Cap ends up being the only judge and he awards first price to Rover. The man from earlier is angry because he owned the runner up. Suddenly, Mr Morris, who was supposed to be the other judge, shows up and says the man had kidnapped him. The villain is taken away and we find out that Rover is actually a rare Spautzer Hound and a deserving winner. The prize money goes to the lady and she's able to keep her kennel.
8 page Captain Marvel story
"Buried Alive"
Billy is doing a broadcast on an ongoing bank robbery. The cops are on the trail of two thieves who spot a door with a funeral wreath and duck inside the building. They slip the money into the casket and sneak out when the mourners leave the building.
The next day, Mr Morris sends Billy to the funeral of a wealth philanthropist. Billy is in a car with the widow when another car drives them off a cliff. Billy transforms and saves the car but the hearse is stolen. Cap follows the car to an abandoned house and changes back to Billy to investigate. He sees what's happening through the window but then trips and knocks himself out. The crooks tie and gag him and decide to toss him in the coffin in place of the body. They tip off the police as to the location of the coffin and the burial resumes with Billy being buried. Billy is buried alive. Billy manages to hook his gag on an exposed hinge and removes it. Shouting his magic word he bursts from the grave and flies back to the villains hideout. Marvel punches the two men out and they get very long prison sentences.
7 page Captain Marvel story
"Captain Marvel's Record"
(Script) Bill Woolfolk
Sivana is constantly bombarded with news about Capt Marvel so he decides to go see a movie but all they're showing is old newsreels of Marvel and he begins to go even crazier. Meanwhile, Mr Morris is telling Billy about a new transmitter than WHIZ is setting up. He wants Billy to check it out in the obscure little town where it's being erected. Billy decides to make things easy and travel as Capt Marvel. Turns out this is the town Sivan decided to travel to to avoid hearing about Cap. Marvel immediately spots the evil scientist. Punches him in the face and hauls him off to jail. However, when Sivana gets before the judge he claims that Capt Marvel is a crook and has newspaper articles to prove it. The articles are real but lack context. Cap is tossed into jail until the judge can analyze the charges.
Cap could break out but decides to stay and not break the law however a week passes with no news. In a near by city the police are laughing about Marvel's predicament which seems really weird. In a strange twist Cap manages to get a costume (I wonder why he didn't change to Billy to get out). Meanwhile, a crowd is angry over the fact that their town is a laughing stock for locking up Marvel. Cap's ridiculous costume causes the jailer to release him and he runs off in search of Sivana but Sivana is stumped for a good world conquering scheme. Cap shows up and punches him in the face and the judge relieves Cap of all charges.
9 page Captain Marvel story
"Captain Marvel' Discovers a New Planet"
(Script) Otto Binder
Billy announces in a radio broadcast that Capt Marvel has discovered a tenth planet in our solar system and later he decides to meet Prof Peter Cathell and hopes to get a chance to look through his giant telescope. The professor tells Billy to look for a specific star but Billy can't see it so he transforms in Capt Marvel. Cap IS able to see the star but he also sees another object which turns out to be a new planet in our solar system beyond Pluto. Cathell scoffs at the idea so Cap decides to fly to the planet to prove its existence. He finds a cold, dead world and from this distance the sun looks like little more than a bright star. Suddenly, Marvel is struck from behind with an energy beam. A pair of aliens are attacking and Cap punches one in the face sending the two running. They duck down a trap door which Marvel pries open and discovers an entire underground city. Guards immediately attacks but Cap pummels them. Their chief steps forward and uses a telepathy box to communicate in English and apologize for his guards actions.
It turns out the tenth planet had only recently entered our suns orbit and they are hoping to move closer to the sun for more warmth. Marvel and the chief form an friendship and Cap even changes back to Billy to do a broadcast from the planet but when the chief sees that he is now a boy he grabs Billy, binds and gags him. They plan on shooting a rocket into the run so it goes supernova, devouring the inner planets and giving their own planet warmth. They toss Billy into the rocket and shoot it off towards the run but Billy manages to catch his gag on some gears and speaks his magic word. He manages to explode the bomb far from the sun but when he returns to the planet finds it has slipped from its orbit because of the recoil from launching the bomb. Cap lets the planet go and returns home and lets the scientist know that the 10th planet has left orbit.
|
|
|