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"Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Headline Headaches"": Freddy’s diary is typed out because he had an adventure because he got to be an editor and publisher! Freddy Freeman is peddling papers at his newsstand when rich man Paxton T Crumpet, Editor and Publisher of the Evening Star, arrives to buy the b

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Captain Marvel Jr.

Captain Marvel, Jr. #59 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel, Jr. (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1948.

Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Headline Headaches"

Freddy’s diary is typed out because he had an adventure because he got to be an editor and publisher! Freddy Freeman is peddling papers at his newsstand when rich man Paxton T Crumpet, Editor and Publisher of the Evening Star, arrives to buy the best paper, which Freddy naturally says is the Evening Star. Crumpet admits he just stops there because he reminds him of when he was young and offers him two cents to trade his life with him. Thus, Freddy Freeman is made Editor and Publisher of the Evening Star! He has his chauffeur James take him to the office and that he’ll return in 24 hours. Freddy gets a call in at his office that there’s a sinking ship sending out an SOS, the Skyhigh Bridge is collapsing, threatening 20 people and “Boxcar” Blinks has robbed the US Mint! The sports editor darts in to say that Laughlin has pitched a no-hitter game and Freddy begins to break down over which one is the most amazing story to run the headline with. In an adjacent room, Freddy calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. He takes off as a reporter on the phone tells the offices that the left end fell and police and firefighters are helpless. The Skyhigh Bridge breaks and Junior arrives in time to fly it to safety, finds the Captain and Radio Operator Sparks on the sinking ship, dragging them to safety as well. Junior returns to the Evening Star and says to lead with Laughlin’s no-hitter, since people like good news and soon learn that Captain Marvel, Jr. solved all the other problems. However, he soon gets a call in that Boxcar Blinks has been murdered and is dying due to being attacked by a rival gang, which he is alack to hear is at his newsstand! The goons knock out Paxton T Crumpet and hide out in the newsstand to look out for Boxcar, who is skulking around with a fake beard on but carrying two large bags with $ on them. The goons start aiming for him and firing, but Junior takes the bullets and bends the barrel into a ring and flings it at Boxcar, tripping him. Mr. Crumpet wakes up and they change their jobs back and all of amazing things that day are all in the Evening Star.

Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Headline Headaches"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • "Boxcar" Blinks
    • two rival gang hitmen

Other Characters:

  • Paxton T. Crumpet, Publisher and Editor
    • James, chauffeur
    • Evening Star staff
  • Ship Commander
  • Ship Radioman Sparks

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Steamship (Destroyed)


Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and the Great Discord"

Freddy tells Mrs. Wagner that he’s got two tickets for John Fidler, Boy Violinist, and she’s invited! However, at the Avon Theatre, John Fidler is upset at having to violin and wants to do something more with his life and ropes his bedsheets to rappel down to the stage door. His managers presume that he’s been kidnapped, so Freddy calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. to find him. John soon gets a dock job working a derrick to move rocks, but accidentally picks up his foreman and realizes that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Junior ends up flying down to save the man as John legs it away and gets a job as a mechanic at an airport despite having zero experience or knowledge about fixing airplanes, so he accidentally makes it taxi wildly and take off. Junior manages to catch the plane by the tail before it can tailspin into airmen below. John explains himself and Junior tells him that him playing violin makes people happy and John is happy again and Freddy and Mrs. Wagner enjoys fondly from nice box seats.

Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and the Great Discord"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Other Characters:

  • John Fidler, Boy Violinist
  • Fidler's Manager
  • Construction Boss
  • Airfield Manager

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Runaway Steam Derrick
  • Runaway Airplane

Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Wanted for Murder!"

Freddy Freeman is getting in more papers from the Daily Gazette to find… Captain Marvel, Jr. is wanted for murder after Officer Jim Bellows found Sivana, Jr. dying at 145 1st Ave. Sivana, Jr. just said that Captain Marvel, Jr. killed him and then died. Police are interested, but the public are divided already. Soon after though, he spots the cops rushing around again, since the news has come in that Captain Marvel, Jr. stole Sivana, Jr.’s body and left a confession note that explicitly says “Yes, I killed Sivana, Jr. Now you’ll have to get me! - Captain Marvel, Jr.” Freddy is naturally suspicious. He calls CAPTAIN MARVEL in an alleyway to try to address things, but Officer Jim Bellows just tries to arrest him instead. He soon flies to Sivana, Jr.’s house to find he’s alive. Sivana, Jr. suddenly bolts to swallow a certain pill that will “kill” him again, but Junior shakes him upside-down at top vibrational force to make him spit it back up and proves that he is just faking his death by putting himself in a form of stasis without any body signs. Officer Jim, corrected succinctly, takes Sivana, Jr. to jail and by the Evening Star, Captain Marvel, Jr. is cleared of murder charges.

Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Wanted for Murder!"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Locations:

Items:

  • Sivana, Jr.'s Death-Faking Pills

Synopsis for Kanvasback: "The Human Pretzel"


Appearing in Kanvasback: "The Human Pretzel"

Featured Characters:

  • Kanvasback

Supporting Characters:

  • Mal Arky

Antagonists:

  • Murdock the Murderer

Other Characters:

  • Referee
  • two stretcher carriers
  • Crusher Kane
  • Dynamite Dooley (Advertised)

Locations:

  • Fight Arena
  • Kane's training yard

Synopsis for Captain Kid: "Captain Kid Has to Face the Music"

Captain Kid’s friends notice he’s approaching, likely to boast, while humming a tune and brags that he’s a songwriter and that a big institution asked for it! One of his friends notes he’d heard it was an Institution for the Deaf!

Appearing in Captain Kid: "Captain Kid Has to Face the Music"

Featured Characters:

  • Captain Kid

Antagonists:

  • Captain Kid's "Friends"

Locations:

Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and the Boy Hermit!"

Freddy Freeman is having a walk in the woods when he notices a beautiful little piece of art drawn onto the trunk of a birch tree. He decides to cut it off to take home, but the artist who created it, an angry young man living in the woods, shoves at him to leave it alone and get out. Freddy instead calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. He follows him to a hermit shack in the woods and determines he’s a Boy Hermit who lives out there. However, when he goes to talk to him, he gets caught in a beartrap. Known gangster Cal Cronin set up the beartrap to catch the Boy Hermit so he can steal his speculatively profitable paintings. Junior frees himself and finds the Boy Hermit attacking Cronin and misunderstands, thinking that the Hermit left the traps. The Boy Hermit explains that Cal Cronin is an art dealer who has been trying to steal his work to sell for himself for a week now. Junior recognizes that Cal has a history of buying up works from poor or unknown artists to flip for high costs. The Boy Hermit admits he ran away from an orphanage and has lived in this shack ever since, making paintings from berry juices, but has no confident social nature to him, making him fear the city. Junior insists he try out the city life to see if it suits him any more.

Junior tries to show him Freddy’s Newsstand, a place where any well-applied chap like himself could make money, but the Boy Hermit is put off by someone rudely bumping into him, incredibly loud road construction and drivers existing in New York City. Junior instead offers he can learn how to play baseball with other kids, only for the Boy Hermit to get hit in the face with a baseball. Junior realizes this requires a change of tack, since the Boy Hermit isn’t a very physical child and instead shows him a city Art Gallery and encourages that he could have a painting exhibited there. The Boy Hermit sees that urban living puts one in touch with an artistic movement that he finds aesthetically pleasing and that he can achieve popularity and acceptance from others by sharing his beautiful art with the world. However, when they return to his shack, they find Cronin has snatched the paintings for himself, though Junior notes that he couldn’t carry them all and must have not gotten far. Cronin spots the Boy Hermit in the woods and shoves a dead tree over to crush him with it, but Junior flies in and punches it away, then punches out Cronin to take him to jail. Later on, Freddy finds the Boy Hermit is now known as The Boy Artist thanks to Captain Marvel, Jr.!

Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and the Boy Hermit!"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Cal Cronin, Unscrupulous Art Dealer

Supporting Characters:

  • The Boy Hermit / The Boy Artist

Locations:

  • New York City
    • Freeman's Newsstand @ Main & Oak
      • An Art Gallery
    • nearby woods
      • The Boy Hermit's Shack

Items

  • A Beartrap
  • A Baseball

Notes

  • Published monthly by Fawcett Publications, Inc.
  • Headline Headaches:
    • Art on the 1st story is probably not by Bud Thompson, per GCD.
    • Freddie's Newsstand is at the corner of Main and Oak Streets, as it has been for some time.

Trivia

  • Despite the cover, Captain Marvel, Jr. doesn't punch a man in a green suit into a wall, breaking something. The only man in a green suit he fights he just generally shoves over on to his stomach.
  • Also appearing in this issue of Captain Marvel, Jr. were:
    • Table of Contents
    • Boxcar Benny: "Careless" by M. H.
    • Rubbernose Randolph: "After-Dinner Speaker" by Art Helfant
    • Boxcar Benny: "Pay Day" by M. H.
    • Rubbernose Randolph: "Without Reason" by Art Helfant
    • Dopey Danny Dee: "Nothing Looks Good On Him" by George Marko
    • "Silent Guns" (text story, continued next issue), by John Osgood
    • Judge Smudge: "Choice Matter", by Howard Boughner
    • Tightwad Tad:" "Never Satisfied"*


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