The nations of the world seem to be getting along better these days! Was Sivana, Jr. the one who kept stirring up trouble? The world is a happier place without Sivana, Jr. around! People don't seem as worried and nervous as they used to be! Yes sirree! I can't be sorry that Sivana, Jr. is no longer among the living!
Captain Marvel, Jr. #99 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel, Jr. (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1951.
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Ghost of Sivana, Jr."
Captain Marvel, Jr. punches through the window into Sivana, Jr.’s latest hideout and calls him out, saying his goons have been arrested and he’s next. Instead, he finds a note from Sivana, Jr., saying that he’s grown tired of constant defeat and plans on killing himself. Junior isn’t quite sure he believes it and goes to fight off some more goons over the coming weeks. Freddy Freeman soon reads in the paper that the Peace Tower is being completed and delegates will be coming to the ceremony opening it. Suddenly, a loudspeaker announces that Sivana, Jr. is returning from the dead to conquer Earth along with death itself. Freddy calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. and finds that Sivana, Jr. now resembles a large translucent figure standing over the city. The Ghost of Sivana, Jr. mocks that he can become any size he needs to and still not be solid enough for Junior to strike anymore and threatens that he’ll prove he can’t be hit tomorrow at the Peace Tower Dedication Ceremony, then disappears. The next day, the Peace Tower (a large obelisk reminiscent of the Washington Monument) is being dedicated before it suddenly explodes! Freddy calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to stop it from falling on spectators and holds it in place while it’s repaired. The Ghost of Sivana, Jr. soon appears, saying this is merely a sample of his powers, laughs and then disappears in a puff of smoke yet again. The delegates are highly worried about this prospect, since he’s now more dangerous dead and asks if there’s anyone who can stop him. For some time, Junior flies off to an island to think things over and finds it strange that the tide has suddely come in all at once and figures something is wrong with the Moon. What’s more, he soon tells the delegates that there is actually a second Moon now and points out that it is much smaller than the regular one and sitting in front of it, creating a shadowy spot and that Sivana, Jr. is probably responsible for it. The delegates say that he is now threatening to destroy every atomic plant in the world and Junior flies off to throw a huge boulder at the smaller second Moon. Within, Sivana, Jr., very much alive, sends out invisible rockets to attack Junior, which just hit him in the chest and then blow up harmlessly to him. Following the exhaust trails of the rockets and destroys them all and figures this is how he’s doing all of his attacks. He soon breaks into hard plastic shell around Sivana, Jr.’s Second Moon and starts fighting off Sivana, Jr.’s robot guards, joking that he’s not among the living, since he lives with robots and then finds a Voice Volume and Image Projector Machine he was using to project his “Ghost” on to New York City. He whips Sivana, Jr. into the machinery to destroy it and the Second Moon is soon destroyed. Later, Freddy says that Sivana, Jr. is back in reform school.
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Ghost of Sivana, Jr."
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- UN Delegates
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Freddy's Newsstand
- Peace Tower
- New York City
Items:
- Sivana, Jr.'s Voice Volume Machine (Destroyed)
- Sivana, Jr.'s Image Projector Machine (Destroyed)
- Sivana, Jr.'s Giant Invisible Rockets (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
- Sivana, Jr.'s Second Moon Base (Destroyed)
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Tunnel to the Future"
In a mountain cave, Jon Goodmaker finds that his latest blast hasn’t seemingly affected the hard rock stratum he’s working at… before it suddenly explodes! Later, Freddy Freeman reads about engineer’s disappearance in the Evening Star and decides to investigate after CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. Junior figures that nothing short of an atomic bomb would eradicate all evidence of human life and flies to the area. Assistant Engineer Ralph Scroggs tells him that he’s feeling bad about it, but Junior decides he’s going to go inside to check it out. Scroggs is upset about this once Junior is gone, since he planted the explosives and he’ll have to do so again. Junior starts piling up boulders out of the way and fixing up the shoring timbers and returns to being Freddy to see what he thinks and he finds that there’s wired dynamite there and wonders why it’s there and why there’d be dynamite charges in a cleared blast area. Scroggs, seeing where Junior is at the time, blasts the area with dynamite!
When Freddy comes to, he finds he’s now in a world of short goblin-shaped men in legless orange jumpsuits who speak telepathically. One of them, Anafras, thinks he’s a mere “savage” (since he isn’t also telekinetic) and urge him along to a zoo where they’re keeping Goodmaker as well. Unfortunately for him, Freddy can’t remember anything due to amnesia from the blast. Freddy is less than willing to be imprisoned, but the little green men shoot him with a “pacifier” gas that makes him compliant long enough to be shoved inside. Goodmaker says they’re in the year 4,000,000 CE and the blast sent them both into a place where the dimensions of these two times overlap. The two humans are soon given singular food pills to eat and Freddy eats more than one, not believing they contain a whole meal until he collapses with an overly full stomach. A guard comes in to spray Freddy with a gas that solves his stomachache, but Goodmaker snatches his pacifier gun and knocks him out with it. The two dash out into the city of the future, only to see two mechanical arms emerging from a hole to seize them. They ignore orders from a wall-screen to return to their cages and dive into the Hall of Heroes, showing great men of history including Galileo Galilei, Cristoforo Columbo, Sir Isaac Newton and “Junius Lloyd — First Man to Conquer Space” as well as Captain Marvel, the World’s Mightiest Mortal! Saying his name, Freddy is transformed again into Captain Marvel, Jr. and his memory is restored. He soon seizes the guards and demands to see who’s in charge, and a Council of Future Men decide that Junior is smarter than them and they cannot keep him imprisoned for his own supposed safety. Junior offers they can just go back to their time and return to the spot where they entered the world of the future. The Future Men soon blast them with explosives, which send them back to the tunnel and flies them out to find Scroggs, who is shocked to see them both alive. Junior takes that as a confession and punches him over and Scroggs admits he did it out of jealousy. Later, Freddy says that Goodmaker sealed the Time Tunnel in the mountain.
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Tunnel to the Future"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Jon Goodmaker
Antagonists:
- Ralph Scroggs
- Anafras
- Other Future Men
Other Characters:
- Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (Cameo)
- Cristoforo Columbo (Cameo)
- Sir Isaac Newton (Cameo)
- Captain Marvel (Cameo)
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Freddy's Newsstand
- The Future of 4,000,000 CE
- A Future Zoo
- The Hall of Heroes
- New York City
Items:
- Dynamite
- Pacifier Guns
- Food Pills
Vehicles:
Trivia
- Despite the cover, Sivana, Jr's ghost isn't black and green, but more of a translucent bluish tone. Moreover, they still can't figure out his hair color.
- This marks a rare issue where Captain Marvel, Jr. doesn't travel time by visiting the Rock of Eternity, but instead due to a mining explosion near an area where the present and the future overlap.
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