Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1950.
Synopsis for "Captain Marvel Versus the Space Dragon"
Bozo Smith is one crook put away by a superhero who actually realizes the error of his ways and tries to turn his life around. While in jail he studies astronomy extensively, and hearing of this, Captain Marvel makes him the gift of a powerful telescope. This leads to Bozo making a terrifying discovery. As he tells Cap, he's noticed a gigantic spheroid entering the solar system that, according to his observations, must be hollow. Bozo fears it's a gigantic egg, which Cap discovers is true when he lands on the object, which promptly hatches into a dragon-like alien big enough to devour the Earth.
The creature is unharmed by his attacks, so Marvel returns to Earth and organizes a massive multinational simultaneous nuclear missile strike on the dragon. Even this fails to do any damage, but Cap takes one of the bombs and flies right down the dragon's throat before setting it off, finally killing the beast. Bozo gladly reports that it will be millions of years before another space egg approaches the Earth.
Appearing in "Captain Marvel Versus the Space Dragon"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Bozo Smith (Single appearance)
Antagonists:
- Space Dragon (Dies)
Locations:
Items:
- many ICBMs
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