COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Captain Marvel Adventures 82 Universal
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Grade:
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9.0
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0259180008
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Owner:
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David Swan1
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Fourth Highest Grade Behind a Trio of 9.2's.
(Published) March 1948
(Cover) C.C. Beck
9 page Captain Marvel
"Sivana Meets Aunt Minerva"
(Script) Bill Woolfolk
Sivana has come up with a brilliant plan to eliminate Capt. Marvel, climb in Billy Batson's window and slit his throat. Meanwhile, Aunt Minerva has created a love potion that she'll use on Capt. Marvel after forcing Billy to transform. Minerva arrives at Billy's just after Sivana prompting him to dive under a bed when he senses an intruder. Mistaking Sivana for Billy she hits him with the love potion and he pops out moonstruck. Not being choosy, Minerva is fine with Sivana's advances until Billy wakes, transforms and belts Sivana in the face. Minerva embraces the Big Red Cheese causing him to change back to Billy and Sivana knocks him out with a chair. Minerva dives into Sivana's arm knocking him down and out.
Back at Minerva's hideout, Sivana continues to profess his love so she orders him out and steal the finest jewels. Still having a crush on Marvel she calls Billy and tells him where Sivana will be stealing the jewels. Marvel shows up as Sivana is breaking into a vault and punches him in the face but he escapes while Cap is occupied with his underlings.
Impressed by the jewels Minerva agrees to elope and Sivana goes back to his hideout to gather all his money when Cap shows up and punches him to the ceiling. The jolt shakes Sivana out of his love stupor and he begs to be put in jail to avoid Minerva. Cap ends up carrying both to prison as they hit and curse each other.
7 page Captain Marvel
"The Streamlining of Captain Marvel"
(Script) Bill Woolfolk
Spotting "Blimp" Baldwin's gang robbing the Hysler Building from their blimp, Capt. Marvel swoops in and begins pummeling them. The pilot accidentally steers the dirigible into the building igniting it in flames. Marvel carries the burning blimp away from the city and rescues the crooks who are now happy to go to jail.
At his HQ, Blimp Baldwin is angry over his lack of weight loss even as he consumes a huge meal. Baldwin has a very porcine appearance with a pig nose and huge belly. He's told that Capt. Marvel thwarted the Hysler robbery and decides crime doesn't pay with Cap around. He proposes a plan to weaken Cap by causing him to lose weight.
At WHIZ Billy receives a massive amount of mail for Capt. Marvel each one encouraging him to lose weight. Later, Billy finds an image of a fat Capt. Marvel drawn on the sides of a building. He changes to Marvel and begins washing the picture off the wall when some boys begin mocking him for being fat. Cap ducks into a clothing store and checks out his rear end in a mirror to see if he truly is fat. Unsurprisingly, we find the boys were given money to call Marvel fat. A man approaches Cap suggesting he could help him lose weight and gets Cap to spend time in a sweat box at his salon. Two hours later ,Cap is told to sit on a vibrating horse. He hears a phone ring and answers it but before Cap can say a word Baldwin lays out the evenings crime thinking he's talking to someone else. Cap reacts quickly punching out the salon owner and capturing Blimp. The End
7 page Captain Marvel
"The Medieval Demon"
(Script) Bill Woolfolk
Horace Stoker, a practitioner of the black arts, makes his living shaking people down by threatening to put a curse on them but as he's lost credibility his income has declined. In order to gain back respect he decides to destroy Capt. Marvel.
Later, Billy is stuck in a traffic jam and transforms to Capt. Marvel to investigate only to discover a hairy bipedal creature blocking the road. A cop tries to arrest the demon but he escapes and begins scaring other people. A bus runs over the demon but he just disappears returning to Stoker. Horace sends the demon out again to destroy Capt. Marvel but the creature seems sad and lost in this strange world. He arrives in the city and kids start pelting him with stones thinking he's a man in a costume (which still doesn't make it right). Cap saves the demon, still not realizing it's a demon. Try as he might the demon can't convince people he's for real until he tries to paralyze Marvel with fear and choke the life out of him at which point Cap knocks him so hard he disappears. He appears backs at Stoker's house and chokes him to death which is a surprising brutal ending for a Capt. Marvel story.
8 page Captain Marvel
"The Return of Tawky Tawny"
(Script) Otto Binder
(Inks/Pencils) C.C. Beck
Visiting Tawky Tawny at the museum where he works, Billy inquires as to how he learned to speak. They arrange to meet later at Tawny's apartment but on the way Billy hears a gunshot and changes to Capt. Marvel. He discovers a man named Tom Todd holding a smoking gun, standing over a corpse. Tom claims innocence saying that the dead man was his boss and after he heard a gunshot he picked up the gun without thinking. The police take him away assuming he's guilty but Cap believes his unlikely story.
Later, Billy arrives at Tawny's and mentions the shooting including the suspects name. When Tawny hears the name he exclaims that Todd was an old friend. Turns out Tom Todd raised Tawny from a cub after his mom was shot by hunters. He even brought Tawny to school and when Tawny was full grown rode him like a horse. After Tawny is accused of killing a man in a nearby village he and Tom are forced to flee. They come across a hermit who happens to be testing a brain energizing serum and lo and behold Tawny is granted the ability to speak.
Tom and Tawny start back towards the village and spot the true killer tiger. Tawny defeats the tiger and they drag it back to the village to prove Tawny's innocence. Now Tawny wants to help Tom just as Tom helped him. They go to the scene of the murder and Tawny is able to use his tiger nose to track the true killer by smell. They capture the man and Tom is set free.
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