This is an electrical contact to your brain! As you dream, all the scenes are recorded on film! Even your thoughts are put down as a sound-track! This makes it easy for me to analyze dreams and people's problems. Now I'll put you to sleep by stroking your forehead.... Sleep... Sleep... ..AH! 
- — Dr. Proabe, Dream Recorder
Captain Marvel, Jr. #49 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel, Jr. (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1947.
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Dream Recorder"
Freddy Freeman has had a dream in black-and-white about Sivana, Jr. escaping from reform school and defeating him soundly, even when he calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. and all his powers are gone! This dream has been recorded by a new technology created by Dr. Proabe, a psychiatrist who invented the Dream Recorder Machine to help better understand his patients. He offers that his dreams symbolize that he’s upset because he cannot defeat Sivana, Jr., so he shouldn’t keep imagining that he’s Captain Marvel, Jr. Later, Sivana, Jr. shows up at Dr. Proabe’s wearing sunglasses and a trench coat. Dr. Proabe plugs the electrodes on his head and rubs his forehead until he falls asleep. He wakes up and finds he had a dream about him being Sivana, Jr. and inventing a new Proton Gun that melts Captain Marvel, Jr. into protons. Sivana, Jr. claims his name is “Uriah McGillicuddy and asks to “borrow” the Dream Recorder Machine. Dr. Proabe tells him to get out and also maybe stop imagining himself as World’s Wickedest Boy, Thaddeus Sivana, Jr.
Sivana, Jr. starts getting frustrated he can’t remember his dream formula for the Proton Gun and decides he’ll just steal it and heads there while he’s in session with Freddy, who is having a dream about Sivana, Jr. having captured him and barely escaping being bound, gagged and fed to a crocodile. Sivana, Jr. pulls a gun on Dr. Proabe and orders him to give him the Dream Recorder Machine, but Freddy is dreaming so vividly that he calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. Dr. Proabe tells him that Sivana, Jr. stole his Dream Recorder and he flies out to grab the World’s Wickedest Boy by both of his mildly large ears and arrests him. Freddy has a dream that night about lounging on a cloud, while Sivana, Jr. has a dream about a dragon with an accusing finger for a tongue, screaming at him while he floats in a void.
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Dream Recorder"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Dr. Proabe
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
Locations:
Items:
- Dr. Proabe's Dream Recorder Machine
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr., the Bottleneck Breaker!"
Freddy Freeman is peddling papers about a bottleneck of rare and necessary Parchesium, some form of ore that is vital to shipping and distributing food. His brainy friend, Sylvester Jones, shows up and says that Parchesium is only found on nearby Clement Island, but he’s also created a chemical that can loosen up the ore and increase production of it during this bottleneck. Freddy rents a boat and takes him out to meet Mr. Clement, who owns the mine there, but Clement says it cannot be done. However, Clement believes this new process will devalue the rarity of it. Clement makes this clear by snatching the chemical fro him and threatening to use it melt Sylvester’s face off with it, so Freddy calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. and punches Clement back. He decides to send off Sylvester to find the Parchesium and says that Freddy will meet up with him at his laboratory. Sylvester soon discovers that Parchesium is actually a space rock from the Planet Domino that came here as a meteor. Freddy reads in a book that the people of Planet Domino is volcanic and populated with blue-skinned humanoids who seal people in large wax candles and dump them into volcanoes, according to a French scientist from 1793 (though it was never verified, of course.) Sylvester and Freddy soon acquire funding from the Allied Airplanes company to fund a mining operation on a different planet, since Junior could fly him there, but it’d be too cold for Sylvester to survive for long and also so they can load up a ton of Parchesium to take home. Freddy buys up candy and “trinkets” to trade with the natives. Clement sneaks aboard the ship and stows away. They soon land and find the bald, blue people of Domino and their King (he wears a little red crown) leads to them to a huge mountain of Parchssium, but discover that the Blue People also eat the Parchseium. Freddy tries to offer the King a lollipop, but he enjoys the taste of the stick more and is more than willing to trade their big rock for more “stick food,” brokering peace. Clement, however, uses some blue dye to disguise himself as a Blue Person and blows up the Parchesium mound with dynamite. Clement accuses Freddy and Sylvester of wanting to take the whole rock for themselves, but Freddy points out they don’t want to destroy it and Sylvester points out they were asleep. The Blue People believe Clement, thinking he’s one of their own. They sentence Sylvester and Freddy to be sealed in wax coffins to be dumped into a flaming caldera, so Freddy calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Junior once more. Clement claims that Freddy is lying and that’s why he disappeared, but when Junior returns to being Freddy, he seized him by the mouth and shoves him into a wax coffin. However, when he splashes down into the lava, his face melts free and he calls CAPTAIN MARVEL and Junior flies Sylvester to safety. He flies him back to find the Blue People having a feast in honor of killing people and Clement is pressed to eat some Parchesium. Junior finds him refusing and shoves him into the river, showing he’s a very pale white man from Earth. Clement is offered clemency if he fairly works to sell Parchesium for them on Earth. They soon fly back to Clement Island and Clement shows his men how to use the special acid to harvest Parchesium from Clement Island. After a week, the bottleneck breaks and Freddy thanks Sylvester for doing so much to help, though Sylvester thanks Captain Marvel, Jr. instead.
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr., the Bottleneck Breaker!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Sylvester Jones, Boy Genius (Final appearance)
Antagonists:
- Mr. Clement
Other Characters:
- The King of the Blue People
- The Other Blue People of Planet Domino
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Clement Island
- Planet Domino
- A Big Volcano
Items:
- Rare Parchesium
- Sylvester's Parchesium-Harvesting Acid
- Lollipops
- Domino Wax Coffins
Vehicles:
- Allied Airlines Rocket-Ship
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and A Bluecoat's Honor"
A cop named Dan Graham takes potshots and Freddy Freeman, peddling papers nearby, calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to investigate, finding that three men were held up at the Emporia Restaurant and he managed to shoot one of them. The two other two goons are distracted seeing Captain Marvel, Jr. and drive into the river, drowning in their car. Junior retrieves them and is shocked to find one of them is Officer Mike Mulroon! Dan is furious that Mike’s name is being dragged through the mud by the media, since they were friends and he thinks Mike was targeted somehow for looking into criminal gangster “Red” Rich and he’s going to go starts asking questions the hard way! He soon shoves his way into Rich’s office and punches him in the jaw. One of his goons tries to pull a gun on Dan, so Junior flies in to knock his head into a safe. Junior has to drag Dan to safety when more gangsters arrive and tells him that they don’t actually have any evidence that Red Rich is involved. They hide out in Mike’s house and find a note that says the “G-2 is under Osnaburg at CP Will Scout Rich’s GHQ Tonight.” Junior figures that G-2 is an army term for “intelligence” and likely means the evidence against rich, Osnaburg is a camouflage canvas used by engineers, CP means command post and GHQ means Rich’s general HQ, the Blue Swan Cafe. Rich offers Junior look around and even in his wall safe, but instead Junior reveals behind a painting is a second wall-safe. Rich pulls a gun, but Dan punches him out. Mike Mulroon is revealed to have been investigating Rich undercover and sent to his death by Rich, who is going to get the chair for this. The Police Commissioner gives Freddy and Dan both a medal for their gallantry. Freddy hopes someday he can be a cop like Dan and Mike...
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and A Bluecoat's Honor"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Officer Dan Graham
Antagonists:
- "Red" Rich
Other Characters:
- Officer Mike Mulroon (Dies)
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- The Blue Swan Cafe
- The Emporia Restaurant (Mentioned only)
- New York City
Items:
- A Wall-Safe
- A Second Wall-Safe
- A Coded Note
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "The Great Blunder"
In the Press Room of the Daily Gazette, a hot scoop has come in: rich heir boy J. Worthington Thiswhistle III has been kidnapped! The Newsboys Club soon pick up the papers and start delivering them. A deliveryman, Joe, asks Freddy what the news is, but Freddy says he doesn’t open his papers until he’s back at his stand. When he gets to his newsstand, he finds a familiar little boy in a red outfit, but Freddy doesn’t know him saying he “runned away” from a “little house near railroad tracks.” Freddy is confused that he’s well-dressed and lives near the tracks, so he calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to fly him to safety as Captain Marvel. In that described shack near the tracks, goons Cooly and Blinky are furious because they lost the child they were going to ransom him. Junior soon lands near there and tries to “return” the boy, who also doesn’t seem to realize he’s in any danger being returned to his captors. When he returns to his newsstand, he is aghast at what he’s done and calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr., but finds the kidnappers are gone. He checks and finds the nearby train yard had two freight cars going in opposite directions, finding the westbound train has nothing and soon the engineer of the eastbound train tells Junior he can push them out of depot to search the train. He flies the two goons to jail and takes J Worthington Thiswhistle III back home, saying that Freddy will always check the news first from now on!
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "The Great Blunder"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- J. Worthington Thiswhistle III
Antagonists:
- Blinky
- Cooly
Other Characters:
- Joe
- Other Newsboys
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- The Offices of the Daily Gazette
- A Shack Near the Railroad
- New York City
Items:
Vehicles:
- Two Freight Trains
Trivia
- Despite the cover, Sivana, Jr. doesn't turn into a big green scary devil this issue, even in Freddy Freeman's anxious dreams! Instead, his powers just fail him out of nowhere, an even more worrying prospect.
- Final Appearance of Sylvester "Syl" Jones, Boy Scientist
- Sylvester Jones will be replaced by many one-note, single-use Boy Geniuses until finally being replaced entirely by a more portly version of Prof. Edgewise throughout the end of his run and into his sparse appearances in The Marvel Family
See Also