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"Captain Marvel, Jr.: "Twenty-Four Hours to Live!"": A crackpot scientist is following a cat, watching for something to happen and then dies. Freddy watches this and calls CAPTAIN MARVEL and becomes Captain Marvel, Jr. to ask why he’s killing cats, but the man says he didn’t: he predicted'

Quote1 Hmmm! So Captain Marvel, Jr. took the law into his own hands! Doesn't sound like him! Quote2
Dr. Sivana, Sr.

Captain Marvel, Jr. #35 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel, Jr. (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1946.

Synopsis for Captain Marvel, Jr.: "Twenty-Four Hours to Live!"

A crackpot scientist is following a cat, watching for something to happen and then dies. Freddy watches this and calls CAPTAIN MARVEL and becomes Captain Marvel, Jr. to ask why he’s killing cats, but the man says he didn’t: he predicted exactly when it would happen with his Life Expectancy Machine! He shows him the machine, which functions like an X-ray or CT scan, but instead of showing how organs look now, it shows how they’ll look later. The mad Dr. Elijah Longlife tells Junior that, ironically, he has only 24 hours to live! Knowing his destruction is imminent, Captain Marvel Junior decides to take out all the most dangerous villains he knows, which are firstly Doctor Sivana, the World’s Wickedest Scientist, then “Brutal” Bill Banion, King of the Black Market. The third is “Wild” Willy McLieberson. Junior tracks down Brutal Bill first, cleaning house in one of his hideouts and then drags him off the ground into the sky. Banion confesses that evidence to his crimes are at the warehouse on 10th. Banion soon returns to his saloon and waits arrest as Sivana encounters him and is upset, since he needs Banion to set up his newest plan: International Black Market, Inc.! Sivana disguises himself as a prison guard and sneaks in to Cell Block 15 and breaks Bill out with dynamite in the cell door. Junior manages to defeat them both since he’s in the area and returns to Dr. Longlife’s lab. However, when he gets there, Dr. Longlife says he looked at the wrong readings and that the 24 hour lifespan was his own. He immediately dies and Junior is shocked to find the Life Expectancy Machine was right after all! He destroys the machine, since all it will do is upset people.

Appearing in Captain Marvel, Jr.: "Twenty-Four Hours to Live!"

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Antagonists:

  • Dr. Thaddeus Sivana
  • "Brutal Bill" Banion, King of the Black Market
  • "Wild Willy" McLieberson (on Junior's to-do list)

Other Characters:

  • Dr. Elijah Longlife (Dies)

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Items:

  • Longlife's Life Expectancy Machine

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Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and the Return of the Antbear!


Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and the Return of the Antbear!

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Supporting Characters:

  • Oscar the Ant Bear
  • The Striped Panda

Antagonists:

  • Sherman Shootum
  • "Trigger" Tomsey
    • his hoods

Other Characters:

  • J. Billings
  • A Pet Shop Owner

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Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Underworld Tournament!"

Freddy Freeman is peddling papers when he sees someone being thrown out of a car while goons shout at him that they’ve taken $50,000 from him. He calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. and finds that the man embezzled half of the charity money was going to send to the Crippled Children’s Hospital and gambled it away, losing $50,000. Junior finds that the gambling den is likely somewhere illegal and therefore rigged and follows the car that threw him out, finding that it’s run by two big city gangsters, “Monk” Mason and “Chuck” Chizzler, heads of the East and West sides of town. They quickly come to blows about splitting a score and they decide to agree a more equitable gang war at the Old Mill. Junior flies back and finds the man without money, saying he needs the other half of the charity money to get it back. Chizzler soon gets his goons to wear suits of armor to prepare for the gang war while Monk Mason gets armor in the mail instead of “bulletproof suits.” He gives the man a beard and tells him to approach each of the goons, betting them $25,000 each that both gangs will lose, which both gangs are willing to believe won’t be them!

The day comes and both gangs find they’re wearing armor and riding stolen horses, so they instead try using some discarded lances on the ground to fight each other, only for Captain Marvel, Jr. to route them both and defeat them in stiff armor, falling into a nearby lake. They both pay up to a man in a beard who bet them $25,000 they’d lose an interpersonal gang war and he now can pay it off to the Crippled Children’s Hospital. Later, the cops arrive to arrest both gangs.

Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Underworld Tournament!"

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Supporting Characters:

  • A Charity Embezzler

Antagonists:

  • "Monk" Mason
  • "Chuck" Chizzler

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Items:

  • Many Suits of Armor
  • Many Lances

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Notes

  • There is no Captain Marvel, Jr. #34. This issue's cover number is #35, and its cover date is February, but the interior is numbered #34 and dated January.
  • This issue's cover depicts Sivana, Jr., who does not appear in it. He appears in the following issue, however, perhaps as a result of the numbering error, though his father does show up.
  • Also appearing in this issue of Captain Marvel, Jr. were:
    • Rubbernose Randolph: "A Matter of Money!" by Art Helfant
    • Boxcar Benny: "Hey mister, how's about a lift?"
    • Rubbernose Randolph: "Gives Joe a Nightmare!", by Art Helfant
    • Boxcar Benny: "I'm very tired."
    • Ali's Father Talks Turkey (text story), by Bert Mills
    • Prisoner of War Fact Sheet
    • Opportunity Knoxx: "Critical Laundry Situation"



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