Captain Marvel Adventures #106 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1950.
Synopsis for "The Plague of Lies"
Appearing in "The Plague of Lies"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Virgil Klance, ex-research scientist
Other Characters:
- his ex-girlfriend
- his ex-boss
- mean psychiatrist
- policeman
- Apple Annie
Locations:
- New York City
- Atlantic Ocean
- barrier reef
Items:
- Klance's Prevaricator Ray (changes human physiology, making people unable to tell the truth)
Vehicles:
- Klance's airplane
- passenger steamship
Synopsis for Captain Kid: "The Lucky Sign"
Appearing in Captain Kid: "The Lucky Sign"
Featured Characters:
- Captain Kid
Supporting Characters:
- Betty Mae
- Pudgy
Synopsis for "The Laughing Peril"
A promoter for a new comedy show is afraid it might not be funny enough and ruin his reputation, so he skywrites promotions for it laced with laughing gas, causing chaos all over town. Eventually Captain Marvel cures everyone by dousing the city with tear gas. It turns out the show is a roaring success, and there was no need to "cheat" with laughing gas.
Appearing in "The Laughing Peril"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Booster Beale, publicity man
Other Characters:
- Beale's Pilot
Locations:
Items:
- Beale's laughing gas / skywriting vapor
Vehicles:
- Beale's hired airplane
Synopsis for "The Menace of the Moon"
Professor Dyke worries that the Moon might be used as a bomb-launching base by an enemy power, so his solution is to destroy the Moon by breaking off pieces of it and having them form rings like Saturn's. Captain Marvel ends this project, and the scientist realizes he'd only be creating hundreds of orbital bodies that could be used as encampments to bomb the Earth.
Appearing in "The Menace of the Moon"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Professor Dyke
Locations:
Items:
- Dyke's Mover Ray
- Dyke's Pounder Ray
Vehicles:
- Dyke's Rocket Ship
Synopsis for Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: "Defective Detective"
Appearing in Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: "Defective Detective"
Featured Characters:
- Colonel Corn
- Korny Kobb
Synopsis for "The Town That Never Heard of Crime"
Appearing in "The Town That Never Heard of Crime"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Hugger Jason, robber
Other Characters:
- The Mayor of NYC
- Jonah Latham, Patriarch Chief of isolated town
- isolated townspeople
Locations:
- Nebraska
- isolated town in a volcanic crater
Notes
- In The Plague of Lies, Virgil Klance's Prevaricator Ray changes human physiology, making people unable to tell the truth. The device also has a reverse setting. At the end of this adventure, Captain Marvel has confiscated the only known prototype of this machine, but its demented inventor is still alive and at large.
- In The Laughing Peril, the antidote to Booster Beale's extremely potent laughing gas is tear gas. Like Klance, Beale is still at liberty at the end of this adventure, after idiotically endangering thousands.
- At the end of The Menace of the Moon, Professor Dyke also gets the same break that Klance and Beale got, despite recklessly endangering the entire population of Earth. He's not only alive and free but still has his rocket ship and his planet-breaking ray projectors.
- Also featured in this issue of Captain Marvel Adventures were:
- Dopey Danny Dee: "No Picnic!" by George Marko
- Comix Cards: "Rod Cameron"
- Tightwad Tad: "Borrowed Trouble"
- The Captain Marvel Club
- Singing Sam: "Opera House"
- "Interplanetary Colony" (text story, featuring Jon Jarl) by Eando Binder
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Links and References
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