Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1949.
Synopsis for "The Miniature Giants"
Billy Batson visits an entomologist who plans to shrink himself to the size of an insect to make it easier to enter the living spaces of these creatures. When he and Billy drink the shrinking drug, they pass out, and find themselves surrounded by giant, attacking bugs. When Captain Marvel comes across a farmstead, he realizes he and the professor never shrank. The shrinking drug doesn't work on humans, and the enlarging drug made regular insects into gigantic monsters.
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- Professor Tomkin, entomologist
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- Giant insects
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Items:
- Reducine and Enlargine formulas
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Synopsis for "Captain Marvel Reaches the Age of Perfection"
After a day of non-stop disaster prevention and crime-fighting, Captain Marvel's mentally wiped out. A crackpot scientist comes in with calculations he's run that by 3000 AD, mankind will have reached an "age of perfection." They won't even have a need for a hero like Captain Marvel, and he immediately speeds to the future to get some quiet time.
Soon a man of action like Captain Marvel's bored out of his mind and desperate for something to help with, even something as minor as helping a lady with her parcels. A robot even takes care of that for him. Soon the "master brain" that controls all the technology that make it an effortless utopia breaks down. Marvel repairs it, then decides it's time to head home and fight some crime.
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Synopsis for "The Invisibility Trap"
Ali Shamm conducts a fake seance, but Billy's on the scene trying to expose fake spiritualists and transforms to do just that. Shamm offers to prove his powers by summoning Captain Marvel's ghost with a jar of "death mist". It actually contains an "x-ray lotion" that renders Captain Marvel invisible, making him seem to be just an empty red suit flying around, scaring anybody he meets. He shows up again to ruin Shamm's racket by putting on make-up over the x-ray lotion so he can be seen again until the lotion wears off.
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