Captain Marvel Adventures #1 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1941. It was published on January 17, 1941.
Synopsis for "Captain Marvel vs. Z"
Sivana builds an artificial man, with superhuman strength, speed, durability, agility, and cunning, and a personality of its own, and sends it out to fight Captain Marvel. Three fistfights later the android, "Z", is destroyed, and revealed to be a mechanical contraption. Amid all the carnage, Sivana escapes.
Appearing in "Captain Marvel vs. Z"
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- Dr. Sivana
- Z the Robot (Destroyed)
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Synopsis for "Out West"
Appearing in "Out West"
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Synopsis for "The Monsters of Saturn"
When he learns that a population of Saturnian humans has been enslaved by an invading alien population of Dragon-Men, on Saturn, Captain Marvel flies from Earth to Saturn in a confiscated streamlined interplanetary rocketship, and puts a swift, violent end to this tyranny.
Appearing in "The Monsters of Saturn"
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- Dragon Men, invaders of Saturn
- Ghoppo, collaborator (Dies)
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- Hargo, last scientist of Saturn
- many enslaved Saturnian humans
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- Dragon Men anti-air weapons, effective against Sivana-built rocketships
- Dragon Men heat rays, ineffective against Captain Marvel
- Dragon Men paralysis rays, effective against Captain Marvel
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- Captain Marvel's rocketship ((last seen in Special Edition Comics #1))
Synopsis for "The Vampire"
Appearing in "The Vampire"
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Notes
- "The Monsters of Saturn" was reprinted in Shazam!: The Greatest Stories Ever Told.
- The entire issue was reprinted in Special Editions Reprints #10 and The Shazam! Archives Vol. 2.
- In this story, Captain Marvel has a rocketship, which was confiscated from a wicked scientist in an earlier adventure. In the 4th story of Special Edition Comics #1, Captain Marvel ended up in possession of a Sivana-built rocketship. Sivana is not explicitly named in the present story, but has famously been termed the "World's Wickedest Scientist."
- That rocketship gets blown up by the Dragon Men, but at the end of the story, Cap flies back to Earth in a rocketship.
Trivia
- In "Out West," a villain exclaims "Carajo." This is a very bad word in Spanish, which the censor missed due to it being in a foreign language.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Marvel Family Recommended Reading
- Whiz Comics (Volume 1)
- Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1)
- Captain Marvel, Jr. (Volume 1)
- Mary Marvel (Volume 1)
- Master Comics (Volume 1)
- Wow Comics (Volume 1)
- The Marvel Family (Volume 1)
- Hoppy the Marvel Bunny (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam!: The New Beginning (Volume 1)
- The Power of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder (Volume 1)
- Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil (Volume 1)
- The Trials of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 2)
- Shazam! (Volume 3)
- Shazam! (Volume 4)
- The New Champion of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 5)