It's like liquid fire! It's changing the whole chemical balance of my body, driving out the glandular secretions that create my evil genius! 
- — Sivana, testing his new potion the hard way
Captain Marvel Adventures #107 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1950.
Synopsis for "The World's Mightiest Fight"
Learning about a poacher hunting animals in a protected reserve in Africa, Captain Marvel flies to the dark continent to try to catch them. He's surprised to find out the poacher is actually an alien trying to catch the greatest prey in the universe. And when Cap withstands his alien rifle, the Space Hunter swallows "atomic energy food" that makes him strong to enough smack Cap so hard that he lands a mile away.
Hearing about Cap's exploits, the Space Hunter decides he's the ultimate prey and hunts him down to capture him. The Space Hunter's atomic food makes him a formidable foe, with their blows knocking each other across entire continents. The fight only ends when Captain Marvel forces the Space Hunter to eat all of his atomic food and then crashes the alien into the ground at top speed, creating an atomic blast. The Space Hunter manages to survive even this, but with all his atomic food used up he can't keep fighting Captain Marvel and flees back into space.
Appearing in "The World's Mightiest Fight"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Space Hunter (Single appearance)
Locations:
Items:
- Paralysis rifle
- Atomic energy food pellets
- Amber specimen tanks
Vehicles:
- Space Hunter's flying saucer
Synopsis for Captain Kid: "Tripped by a Boat Trip"
Captain Kid is hoping to take a ride on a boat, so a generous Skipper offers if he can do a job for him that afternoon, helping two men fishing with him, he can ride along. Captain Kid is positive, since there's "nothing I don't know about boats!" However, he quickly thinks to himself how he's only read about boats before and instead hastily rushes into the bridge, shoves the starter and throws himself forward all the way off the boat. The Skipper points out he didn't even unmoor the boat first and that he's fired now, but Captain Kid refuses to accept this and decides to sneak on anyways. He helps the two fishermen load a large sack on to the boat, but the Skipper notices him and tells him to get lost already. Instead, he hides in the large sack. Later, he falls overboard after a hard turn of the boat and the Skipper, begrudgingly, turns around to rescue him. The two fishermen reason they'll have to take him with them now... but he soon gets horribly seasick as the mariners laugh at him for getting exactly what he wanted.
Appearing in Captain Kid: "Tripped by a Boat Trip"
Featured Characters:
- Captain Kid
Other Characters:
- fishing boat skipper
- two recreational fishermen
Vehicles:
- fishing boat
Synopsis for "Sivana's Better Self"
Sivana seizes control of a friendly nation's government. To become a more persuasive liar, Sivana invents and swallows a potion that changes his character, for 24 hours, from evil to good. It puts him into convulsions, then he recovers and completely reforms. After dealing with a gigantic world-wide distraction, (set in motion earlier, by Sivana's old evil self), Captain Marvel busts Sivana, who is then imprisoned in the country he had briefly ruled.
Appearing in "Sivana's Better Self"
Featured Characters:
Villains:
- Dictator Sivana
- uniformed flunky
Locations:
- New York City
- "Sivana's Country", several thousand miles away
Items:
- Sivana's Character Potion
- Sivana's Fifty Space Bombs (Destroyed)
Synopsis for "Captain Marvel Helps WHIZ Get Color Television!"
Station WHIZ is about to switch over from black and white to color. As they make their preparations, a peculiar little man declaring himself the "Color Maker" appears and takes an order from Sterling Morris (who's just playing along to get him out of the way). They start thinking there might be something to his outrageous claims, when the Color Maker makes his exit by climbing out the window only to vanish.
Indeed he is responsible for all the colors on Earth, but the Color Maker is so offended to see the terrible abstract art his colors are being used for, he revokes all color in the world. When the world suddenly turns monochrome, Captain Marvel flies outside and runs into the disgusted Color Maker, and follows him back to the source of all colors. Finding out the Color Maker is an artist himself, he takes a few of the man's works to broadcast them. Realizing his works can't be appreciated with no color, the Color Maker puts everything back the way it was.
Appearing in "Captain Marvel Helps WHIZ Get Color Television!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Color Maker
Locations:
- New York City
- Color Factory for Earth, in a cavern
Synopsis for Headline Harry: "The Gift"
Editor Grumpe sends Headline Harry to go pick up a gift for his wife for her birthday for him at Balaban Department Store. While there, he discovers a shoplifter stealing pocket-watches and accidentally runs off after him holding a pearl necklace. The Store Detective manages to catch up with Headline Harry and punches him out of a three-story window, but Harry lands on the thief, "Lightfingers" Looie and the Store Detective apologizes. Later, Harry finds he not only got the headline once again, he got his boss' wife a fine pearl necklace too and a pocket-watch of his own as a reward! For once, Editor Grumpe is stunned at Harry's accomplishment.
Appearing in Headline Harry: "The Gift"
Featured Characters:
- Headline Harry
Supporting Characters:
- Editor JP Grumpe
Antagonists:
- "Lightfingers" Looie
Other Characters:
- Store Detective
Locations:
- Gazabo Gazette
- Balaban Department Store
Synopsis for "Captain Marvel and the Man Who Stole Dirt!"
Billy Batson is working hard on a farm vacation to enjoy some good manual labor shoving hay on to a cart to get a little stronger. While on a break, he learns from his farmer friend that this is a very rich farmland in the world that grows only the biggest and best crops due to their highly fertile soil, akin to a farmer’s paradise due to irrigation from a lake in the nearby hills. He soon finds that, strangely, fellow farmer Jud Jones has sold his farm and is moving out, claiming he has a “hunch” something will happen to the valley, something bad. Billy is confused by this action as well as Jud moves up to the High Lake to destroy it with dynamite and flood the valley on a low rim, hoping to buy out the whole valley afterward. The ensuing flood nearly washes away Billy and his farmer friend before he calls SHAZAM and summons Captain Marvel to start saving people from being trapped in drifting barns, tearing up one into a large raft to let the people of the valley live. Hearing another blast, Captain Marvel flies up to see Jud Jones setting off more dynamite, but claims that he has a good reason for what he’s up to, saying he’s trying to stop the flood by opening a hole in the cave wall. However, it coincidentally doesn’t work and Captain Marvel helps by doing it for him. Jud thinks once Captain Marvel is inside the hill that this also plays into his plans…
The people of the valley are thrown into panic by finding the valuable black topsoil has been washed away, leaving only the red subsoil, which would ruin their farming landscape. Everyone decides to just leave and Jud Jones happens to buy up all of their land on the way out, insisting on paying for the “worthless” land. Captain Marvel figures he must have some reason to do this and calls SHAZAM to return Billy, who asks why he’s buying up all the farms, only for Jud to shove him angrily. Billy is now suspicious of him entirely and follows him to the cave that Captain Marvel made in the hills, but when he tries to follow him inside, Jud turns suddenly and brains him with a rock, knocking him out, and throws him into the mud-filled cavern. Billy manages to pull the mud away from his face enough to call SHAZAM and finds that the black topsoil flows from this cave in the mountains, meaning it will flow back down to liven up the valley in time. Realizing that Jud was trying to steal everyone’s land while it was temporarily worthless, he punches him out in one shot after smacking him in the face with black mud. Later, Captain Marvel uses a large cart and flies to disperse the topsoil on to the subsoil and everyone cheers for Captain Marvel saving their fertile valley.
Appearing in "Captain Marvel and the Man Who Stole Dirt!"
Featured Characters:
Villains:
- Jud Jones
Other Characters:
- farm families
Locations:
- fertile valley, below a natural dam
Notes
- In The Man Who Stole Dirt, Billy Batson is knocked unconscious with a thrown rock.
- Despite the cover, the Space Hunter isn't bright yellow with a glaring red nose and lips with a yellow rat-like tail. Instead, he has a moderately pink skin tone and a furry black tail, more like a spider monkey.
- Also featured in this issue of Captain Marvel Adventures were:
- Tightwad Tad: "...Scents A Bargain"
- Dopey Danny Dee: "Light Hearted" by George Marko
- "The Time Trip" (text story, featuring Jon Jarl) by Eando Binder
See Also
- Cover gallery for the Captain Marvel Adventures series
- Images from Captain Marvel Adventures Vol 1 107