Captain Marvel Swan
Captain Marvel Adventures 61

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Captain Marvel Adventures #61 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: Crowley Copy
Certification #: 0967948002
Owner: David Swan1

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Captain Marvel Swan
Date Added: 5/24/2012
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Currently the Highest Graded Copy of this Issue. The other Crowley copy is a 9.0. Features the first appearance by long time villain Oggar "The World's Mightiest Immortal". Begins a 6 part serial that lasts until issue 66.

(Published) September 1946
(Cover) C.C. Beck

9 page Captain Marvel story
"The Sleeper Awakes"
(Script) Otto Binder

Billy Batson and some friends are walking in the woods when they decide to have a picnic. They hear someone sleeping and find an old man named Tom Tuttle behind some bushes.His beard is five feet long and his clothes in tatters. Tom hears a radio and smashes it with a cane thinking it's witchcraft. He then start attacking the children thinking they are witches and when Billy transforms to Capt. Marvel he hits him with his cane to no effect. After calming down Tom explains that he believes the year is 1750. When Tom discovers it's 1946 he bemones the fact that all his friends and family are dead and buried by Cap vows to help him.

Cap takes him to the city, puts him in a suit, gets him a trim and then takes him to the courthouse took look him up in the records. Records confirm that Tom Tuttle has been sleeping nearly 200 years. He then remembers that he placed a few hundred dollars in a bank Amazingly the bank and the account still exist and with interest amount to well over one million dollars. This seems highly unlikely for many reasons. One of which is that they accept without evidence that this man IS Tom Tuttle. Later, Billy is reading Rip Van Winkle when he notices something that causes him concern and he rushes to see Tuttle. Meanwhile Tuttle is now living in a plush apartment when his great great great grandson shows up and pulls a gun on Tom. Cap arrives and punches the man out but suddenly the room fills with greedy relatives all wanting Tom's money. He pushes them out the door but Capt. Marvel looks angry and accuses Tuttle of being a fraud.

The is actually kind of clever. When Tom Tuttle first awakens he mentions that he is like Rip Van Winkle but the story of Van Winkle wasn't written until after 1750 cluing Marvel into his duplicity. Tom Tuttle's scheme to get the money from the 200 year old account is revealed and he's sent to jail.

7 page Captain Marvel story
"The Whirling Drawbridge"

Billy is on a riverboat that's going to be used as entertainment for chidlren (even in 1946 a riverboat was a relic). He goes to visit the mansion of Twirler McVolver. He meets McVolver who tells Billy hr made his fortune buying up inventions including a new one he's super proud of which is a revolving barber chair to sooth nerves. As he demonstrates it to Billy it goes haywire and begins spinning out of control. Billy says his magic word and Capt. Marvel stops the chair also damages it. After changing back Billy is lambasted by McVolver for damaging the invention and vows to get even (does he know that Billy is also Capt. Marvel?) As McVolver investigates the damage he discovers he has invented an "ascending reduction gear", the most powerful gear in the world. So apparently he didn't realize this as he was inventing it.

In a rather dumb move Billy does a broadcast on the incident making McVolver a laughing stock, spoiling the sale of his "rocking chair" and enraging him more. He sabotages a bridge of the man who refused to buy his gear and the steam boat Billy and the children will be riding on. The steam boat heads out, kids aboard, and approaches the revolving bridge which turns to allow the boat to pass but it begins to spill like a top prompting Billy to transform and correct the problem. Cap stops the bridge but then the steam boat goes crazy and crashes into shore.

Marvel figures out what happened and grabs up McVolver who now seems quite mad. He puts the inventor back on the rocking chair and spins him in reverse which apparently unwinds his insanity (huh???) The spin "tightened his loose screws". McVolver decides go to into a retirement and all is well in the world.

9 page Captain Marvel story
"The Mental Monster"
(Script) Otto Binder
(Pencils/Inks) Pete Constanza

Billy bikes to a seaside resort at the invitation of Mr. Morris. Resting on the porch Billy and Mr. Morris hear a cry for help. One of the guests of the resort, Jonathan Jaeger shows up claiming a monster chased him on the beach. Billy transforms in order to investigate. Capt. Marvel heads down to the beach and finds nothing but Jaeger sticks to his story literally biting his nails with fear.

Later that night while Billy is reading he hears another scream of 'monster' this time from Mrs. Hipp, Capt. Marvel arrives at Mrs. Hipp's room but the monster has gone. She claims a tentacle tried to grab her from the open window. Cap again searches the beach this time finding some tracks but they lead into a rocky area so they can't be followed, Marvel returns and tells all the guests to go back to bed and he'll keep watch. Another scream for help and a woman claims the monster dragged off her husband. Capt. Marvel gathers all the male guests and sends them out to search for Mr. Jenkins. Later they reconvene and although no monster was found they found some fur, scales and a horn.

2 page text story
"The Last Fight"
(Script) Joseph Millard

10 page Captain Marvel story
"The Cult of the Curse Ch.1: The World's Mightiest Immortal"
(Appearance) Oggar [first]
(Script) Otto Binder
(Pencils/Inks) Pete Constanza
  
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