That's Freddy Freeman! My studies in the career of Captain Marvel, Jr. prove that Freddy Freeman and Captain Marvel, Jr. are one and the same! I'll just follow him wherever he goes! Sooner or later he's certain to change into Captain Marvel, Jr.! That will be my opportunity! 
- — Professor Ega, Creepy and Meek Local Scientist
Captain Marvel, Jr. #79 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel, Jr. (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1949.
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. Battles Anarchy!"
Officer Jim Bellows is visiting Freddy Freeman at his Newsstand while he’s peddling papers and mentions a criminal who was arrested around a month ago for a bank robbery named “Slinky” Garson. It seems he’s escaped to get to the Pacific coast and that they’re likely to lose track of him. Freddy decides that Captain Marvel, Jr. ought to look into it and calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to make it so. He soon takes off and finds him in a specific Pacific island where he finds a man speeding by dangerously in an orange sedan and wrenches him up off his tires. When he does though, the driver arrogantly says that there are no laws here and what’s more, the police do not exist! This is Anarchy Island, where no law exists, no taxes are levied and no justice system exists, maintaining a perfect egalitarian existence. A man breaks through a window for fun, but the shopkeeper equally knows and respects that no law forbids him from doing so, then kicks a hole in his window too, just for the fun of it. However, Junior soon figures out that the reality of an anarchic society is that it too easily boils down to the strong controlling the weak, finding Slinky Garson attacking a smaller man. He is further confounded when he finds two men destroying the paint on each others’ houses, seemingly in an equitable exchange of fury. When Junior openly points out he’s just robbing everyone freely, the people still refuse and says that they live in an utter freedom entirely. To challenge these ideas, Junior begins to assert himself aggressively: relocating a man’s house to block traffic, dumping boulders around town and singing at the top of his lungs. By morning time, they find he’s piled up cars in a big mound and just beats up Slinky anyways (as there’s no law against it) and he points out that being stronger than them and with no system of law, he is the most powerful. To stop any further issues, they permit Captain Marvel, Jr. to be their singular Police Chief and carries away Slinky to face American law. Slinky, being turned over to Officer Jim, determines he’s going to the Moon next time.
Appearing in Capt. Marvel Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. Battles Anarchy!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Other Island Anarchists
Antagonists:
- "Slinky" Garson
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Freddy's Newsstand
- Anarchy Island
- New York City
Items:
- Boulders
- A Man's House
Vehicles:
- An Recklessly-Driven Orange Sedan
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. Loses His Courage!"
Professor Ega is a meek man who is constantly shouted at until he goes to a newsreel featuring Captain Marvel, Jr., who beats some goons robbing a bank and warns citizens to keep an eye for “Grox” an underworld leader. Later, Prof. Ega figures out a way to create courage in a test tube and transfer it and invents a Zeta Ray Transporter that will do that for him. Further, he reasons out Freddy’s entire secret identity and stalks him from his home at Mrs. Wagner’s Boarding House. Officer Jim Bellows soon drives up to Freddy to tell him he’s going after Grox, who has just robbed the Empire Fur Storage Vault, has $50,000 in cash and is driving a dark blue limousine! Soon enough, bright-eyed Freddy Freeman spots the dark blue limousine and calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. and Prof. Ega uses the Zeta Ray Transporter, stealing all of the Courage of Achilles! Although the bullets being fired at him still yield only predictable results, he finds himself scared of being shot by them and isn’t going to attack them. Instead, Prof. Ega leaps at them and punches the limo’s driver in the face while he’s driving, though Junior is too scared to jump off the bridge to save them when they swerve off the bridge. Prof. Ega dives in instead and rescues the goons, before tying them up to a tree and finding a notebook of instructions from Grox to meet them at 422 Elm Street, their hideout. Junior soon finds the Zeta Ray Transporter and figures out it did something that’s affecting him and flies off to see Officer Jim, who says that Prof. Ega dropped off three of Grox’s goons earlier and said he was going to find the rest on Elm Street and to be there in a half-hour. Junior flies off to go see him about Grox, at his hideout, says that his plans never go wrong (even though he doesn’t know why his goons are 20 minutes late), only for Prof. Ega to climb in his window and say he’s under arrest! He demands they turn over their guns and arrogantly announce that he’s there by himself, prompting Grox to pistol-whip him. Junior fires the Zeta Ray Transporter and takes back the Courage of Achilles, flies in the window and punches out the goons, then destroys the Zeta Ray Transporter. However, Prof. Ega is still brave and decides to become an explorer and big game hunter!
Appearing in Capt. Marvel Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. Loses His Courage!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Professor Ega
Antagonists:
- Grox
- Other Bank Robbers
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Freddy's Newsstand
- 422 Elm St.
- New York City
Items:
- Ega's Zeta Ray Transporter (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
- Grox's Dark Blue Limousine
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and Timber of Terror!"
An elderly man in a wheelchair, Mr. Grayman, is crushed by a falling tree. His foreman, Mr. Sidney Norton, says he’s dead. The next day, Officer Jim Bellows asks Freddy Freeman at his Newsstand what he’s looking blue about it and Freddy says that Enoch Grayman, who founded the special camp for disabled kids and paid for many a fine vacation for them has died. Jim recalls him being crushed by a big tree and a suspicious Freddy calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. and look into it. A lumberjack shows him where Norton is and points him out. When Junior finds him, Norton flips out and falls into the river, forcing Junior to shove a log out of the way and Norton says that’s the same log that killed Grayman! Norton says that the tree is trying to kill him and Junior investigates the scene and finds that there are footprints next to the wheelchair tracks, indicating someone pushed him there to die. From behind a nearby tree, Norton freaks out again, since he’s likely the one who did it and runs into the river again. Norton finds that the logs are jammed and it’s being loosened with dynamite, which sends Norton flailing into a log-filled river where he falls down a waterfall and is nearly clubbed to death by a log. Norton is swaddled in warm blankets and drinking hot bouillon, but swearing that he wants that log destroyed to make him feel any better. Junior does a seven-second audit of their books and discovers that Norton has been embezzling from the company and that it’s likely Norton who did it. Norton maniacally lights an exploding pile of wood-shavings on fire to distract Junior. When he tries to roll over a wood sled though, the board from that same log are the ones that roll down and crack into his spinal column, killing him instantly. Junior notes how strange it was how these superstitions worked out for them and that they’ll use the same wood… for Norton’s coffin!
Appearing in Capt. Marvel Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and Timber of Terror!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Enoch Grayman (Dies)
Antagonists:
- Sidney Norton (Dies)
Other Characters:
- Other Lumberjacks
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Freddy's Newsstand
- A Sawmill
- New York City
Items:
- A Large Tree that Killed Enoch Grayman
- Dynamite
- Hot Bouillion
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Unhappy Clown"
Freddy Freeman and some newsy friends received tickets to the Frisbee’s Giant Circus and are having a great time to enjoy it on a seasonal afternoon, especially since it features Rico, the World’s Funniest Clown! Soon enough, Rico emerges on a donkey and is hilarious. Afterward, he looks at a sideshow, but a lion breaks out. Rico suddenly charges in and tries to hold back the lion with a lion-stool, but he easily tears through the stool, so Freddy calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. and pulls him back by his tail and flings him into his own cage and locks it, finding the lock wasn’t shut at all. Rico says that he saved the day, but the other circus performers mock that Junior did it. Rico says that he’s tired of people laughing at him, since he wants to do more! The second act soon begins with aerial acts, only to find Rico the Clown swinging on the trapeze without a safety net. He flies off to the other trapeze, but misses it entirely and falls, hoping to at least die a hero, only for Junior to fly in and save him. Rico pushes him away and says he just doesn’t understand. Rico goes to his dressing room and finds Freddy Freeman is there, asking why he’s doing all this. Rico says that he wants to be a hero and be seen as courageous and Freddy realizes that he let the lion go to catch it, he did the trapeze act on his own and he even overheard a cashier talking about letting some goons in to rob the box office. Rico says he’s going to go stop them and Freddy goes to follow him, but the robbers knock them both out and dump them in the box office where they’re left bound and gagged in a corner while the goons crack the safe to make it look like it wasn’t an inside job. The goons discuss shooting them with a silenced gun while Freddy tries working on slipping his gag. Rico manages to break free suddenly, then tries to attack the goons… but slips on a small red rug. The goons find they can’t stop laughing as Rico tries to attack them with a chair, only to slip and hit himself in the head. The cashier keeps laughing as he tries to pull his gun on them, but Freddy finally manages to call CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Junior once more and punches them over, arresting the cashier and the other goons. Junior tells Rico that he saved them all by being a ridiculous buffoon and says he’s the World’s Greatest Clown! Rico is inspired and says he’ll do what he does best: making people laugh!
Appearing in Capt. Marvel Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Unhappy Clown"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Rico the World's Funniest Clown
Antagonists:
- Mr. Cashier
- Other Circus Thieves
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Freddy's Newsstand
- Frisbee's Giant Circus
- New York City
Items:
Vehicles:
- A Donkey
See Also