Isn't it wonderful? I can just feel the clammy fingers at my throat, and hear the wailing of souls! 
- — Ramsey Banko
Captain Marvel, Jr. #107 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel, Jr. (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1952.
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The World's Mightiest Whale!"
Lakoto is a pleasant island where its natives live in peace. A man named Narmo soon finds a particularly large pearl, saying that the oysters under the island containing them will have similar pearls. Some time later, Freddy Freeman is closing up his Newsstand and calls CAPTAIN MARVEL when he hears screaming and becomes Captain Marvel, Jr. He soon finds three goons trying to mug Narmo and flies him to the hospital where he gets the treatment he needs. Narmo struggles to say that he came to the city to sell one of his big pearls, but the gangsters ambushed him and beat him until he told them where Lakoto is and they tried to kill him to make sure he couldn’t warn his people. Junior flies off to find Lakoto as the goons land nearby and find that Lakoto is apparently ten miles off from where they thought he’d said it was. The natives say they exchange the pearls for clothes or building materials, only for the goons to pull guns on them, ordering them to keep diving for pearls and shoot a man in the side for speaking out against them. Soon, Narmo awakens and manages to draw a map to Lakoto, but when Junior flies there… it isn’t there! However, he soon hears an explosion from about 40 miles away, which is due to the goons setting off underwater explosives to dislodge the rest of the oysters from their bed. The natives warn him that it is against their ways to disturb the island, since it has a “life of its own” and will punish them directly. From above, Junior watches as the entire beach slides away and an “earthquake” begins… revealing that Lakoto “Island” is actually situated on top of a giant whale! Junior runs afoul of the whale’s spout and then dives down to try to drag him back into place until the natives are safe in their boats they’ve evacuated to. Unfortunately, the pearl thieves escape in their plane with plenty of them… only for the Whale to smack them with his tail, destroying the plane and returning all the pearls to the waters. Junior catches them before they hit the water and drags them off to jail. Later, Freddy says that Narmo and his people are on an island that doesn’t flow away and no one has seen the whale ever since.
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The World's Mightiest Whale!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Narmo
Antagonists:
- Unnamed Pearl Thieves
Other Characters:
- The Whale of "Lakoto Island"
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Freddy's Newsstand
- New York City
Items:
- Giant Pearls
Vehicles:
- Islander Boats
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Horror Dimension"
Mrs. Wagner has fund some old books for her new boarder, Ramsey Banko, to keep in the basement, all of which seem to be horror stories. Basko soon arrives home with an urn that once belonged to the “Mad Arab” Hussein Alif, the only man who ever “found the door into the Horror Dimension.” After he takes it up to his room though, Banko starts to mix up a brew in the urn that turns into a cloud of smoke that reveals… the door to the Horror Dimension! Freddy Freeman, heading upstairs, sees the smoke and calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr., following Banko into the door. In the Horror Dimension, Banko is more than happy to hear moans and feel the likely threat of death nearby. Junior tries to drag him back to Mrs. Wagner’s by force, but a heavy fog prevents him from seeing where he’s going until he finds a break in it with a seemingly normal old lady… until she turns around and reveals she’s a witch! Further, her “children” are fanged, hawk-nosed “Witchlings” that start to chase them on broomsticks to eat them for dinner. They run off into a copse, only for one of the trees to grab Banko by the throat, forcing the World’s Mightiest Boy to snap a few branches to release him. Junior says they need to go back through the Portal of Peril to Earth and a nearby team of skeletons hear this and decide to invade Earth through the door along with other horrible monsters. Junior starts to fight them off until Banko gets through the Portal of Peril and Junior smashes the urn so no monsters can escape. Later, Banko says he’s going to read some Delightful Stories instead, which Freddy says is likely for the best.
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Horror Dimension"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Ramsey Banko
Antagonists:
- A Witch
- Her little Witchlings
- Tree Monsters
- Several Demons
- Skeletons
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- The Horror Dimension
Items:
- Hussein Alif's Urn (Destroyed)
- Banko's Horror Books
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. Gets Lazy!"
Freddy Freeman, Red O’Riley and Prof. Edgewise hear a report on the radio that there’s a severe earthquake affecting Mount Olympian, where the Professor says is the site of a very famous observatory! Though Freddy thinks it is probably too far away to reach quick enough, he calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to fly there as Captain Marvel, Jr. He soon finds it about to fall off a cliff, so he packs a mountain up under it to give it a half-mile of solid structure to rest on and even pushes the telescope back into place. The scientists at the observatory thank him profusely and he goes home to rest in a hammock in the back of Mrs. Wagner’s Boarding House and generally ignores Prof. Edgewise saying how amazing he is and asking how he never gets tired. The Professor notes that he does deserve the rest, but finds it strange that he’s acting so lazy. Later, Red’s ladder is hit by a gust of wind and he falls off of it… only to fall in the bushes without Captain Marvel, Jr.’s help! When he says that wasn’t funny, Junior says that he knew he’d fall into the bushes and would be fine. Red tells Mrs. Wagner and the other boarders about it and they each try a different tactic to rouse Junior from the hammock: Mrs. Wagner offers a blueberry pie, Prof. Edgewise offers him some “energy pills,” and Leroy just starts a brush-fire under him, which only manages to destroy the hammock while Junior sits on the ground now, unharmed entirely and worse, unmoved. Late in the night, Mrs. Wagner goes out to set a blanket on him, but Junior suddenly stands up and exclaims “THERE IT IS!” and flies off into the sky and then space. He punches out a mostly invisible comet that was coming to Earth, destroying it. Returning, he says that it was hard to detect due to a reflective crust on it, but he'd seen a strange shadow passing Saturn on the exposed photographic plates when he fixed the telescope at Mount Olympian Observatory. Thus, he had to wait for the exact second it passed Mars looking at the sky to find it. To not panic or scare everyone, he pretended it was mere laziness and eats a very big slice of blueberry pie now that his attention isn’t diverted.
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. Gets Lazy!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- An Invisible Comet
Other Characters:
- Observatory Scientists
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Mount Olympian
- Mount Olympian Observatory
Items:
- Blueberry Pie
Vehicles:
Trivia
- Despite the cover, none of these assorted horrors appear in the issue, though similar demons do show up.
- For some reason, Red O'Riley is mis-colored as being a blond in this issue.
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