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Captain Marvel Adventures Vol 1 110

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"Captain Marvel and the American Century Ch. 1: The Great Half-Century Fair": Billy Batson is hosting a special Half-Century Fair for the year 1950 starting on WHIZ TV! As the New Year rings in, Billy is sitting for a moment and Mr. Morris offers he joins the festivities, wearing a jestfully whi

Quote1 1900 to 1950 was a golden period in American science and invention! America gave the world the auto, the airplane, the radio, plastics, jets, rockets, X-Ray machine, cyclotron, and other things too numerous to mention! Quote2
— Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel Adventures #110 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1950.

Synopsis for "Captain Marvel and the American Century Ch. 1: The Great Half-Century Fair"

Billy Batson is hosting a special Half-Century Fair for the year 1950 starting on WHIZ TV! As the New Year rings in, Billy is sitting for a moment and Mr. Morris offers he joins the festivities, wearing a jestfully whimsical hat. Billy thinks about how he was the person who came up with this idea when he told Mr. Morris that the New Year of 1950 starting will start the second half of the 20th Century and thinks that they’ll start calling it the “American Century” that leads a path of democracy, freedom and all human ideals. Thus, he pushed for a big event that they can put a lot of sponsors behind to make a real fair out of it and they can publicize it on the air! The only person who dislikes the concept of the American Century is Dr. Sivana, the World’s Maddest Scientist, since he hates things like democracy and freedom and so he’s going to ruin the celebration by using some sort of a large, spiked Lightning Bomb.

Billy is out at a construction site where the Half-Century Fair that’s being built over the course of six months (to happen at the exact middle of the year.) Sivana flies in on a small plane and drops the Lightning Bomb nearby, sending crackling lightning out in all directions. Billy calls SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel who smashes the Bomb, stopping it from throwing lightning around and decides he’s going to take care of Sivana so he won’t get in the way of the Half-Century Fair. To that end, Mr. Morris tells him that he wants Captain Marvel to be Superintendent for the fair and he accepts. Everything is going fine and all according to schedule as Captain Marvel calls SHAZAM to return Billy, who is meeting Mr. Tawky Tawny to volunteer for taking the National Census for 1950! Billy explains how Captain Marvel is involved with the Fair and Sivana’s inherent threat to the situation. Mr. Tawny finds that he is at a tenement slum area, but doesn’t judge people about their business. Meanwhile, Sivana is running a census… of crime, trying to unite goons working under him to set about his “Sivana Century” crime spree. Mr. Tawny is confused and suspicious when he sees a second census taker in his census territory and soon recognizes Sivana’s trademark nasty chuckle and chases him to a large pink building. Mr. Tawny tries to give chase, but Sivana’s goons, Slugger and Lefty, ambush the Civilized Tiger and blackjack him into submission. Billy soon finds that Mr. Tawny hasn’t shown up, but his census record book is laying on the ground near a large pink building. Walking inside, Billy is blackjacked before he can call SHAZAM and is left bound and gagged in a corner, next to Mr. Tawny. Sivana decides he will start the Sivana Century by conquering America first and will kill Billy later as his first “official” act as “King,” leaving Slugger to keep watch of them. He soon leaves with Lefty to go gin up more goons and sabotages construction equipment at the construction site.

Back at the hideout, Slugger is eating too loudly for him to hear Mr. Tawny chewing through his gag, then chewing through Billy’s, letting him call SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel. The World’s Mightiest Mortal punches out Slugger as Sivana’s goons accidentally crash their construction vehicles on the fair grounds. Sivana and his goons all take up pickaxes and hammers to start ruining things directly, only for Captain Marvel and Mr. Tawny to dash in and start cleaning house, defeating Sivana’s whole gang! The World’s Maddest Scientist looks around shiftily, resolving to ruin the American Century and begin the “Great Sivana Century!”

Appearing in "Captain Marvel and the American Century Ch. 1: The Great Half-Century Fair"

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  • Dr. Sivana, World's Maddest Scientist
    • his large gang: Slugger, Lefty, others

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  • Sivana's Lightning Bomb


Synopsis for Captain Kid: "Television Blues"

Captain Kid has bought a television set to watch the big game at his house that afternoon, but warns his friend Pudgy that it’s not a very big new TV set. Captain Kid decides that he’ll pick up some candy and be a good host. Unfortunately, Pudgy arrives with his friend Dick, who invited a bunch of his own friends with him. They soon begin to demand Captain Kid make some more hearty snacks for them and tackle him when he returns with them, leaving a mess and eating them all for themselves. Captain Kid grows angry when they decide to watch a cowboy film instead of the big game and they begin to fight about what to watch. Captain Kid crawls past them and puts the game on, only for other kids to start messing with the settings and the antenna. One of them pulls a “loose wire” and the whole television explodes! Pudgy says he’ll need to get a new TV, but Captain Kid says that it’d just be cheaper to go to the game himself!

Appearing in Captain Kid: "Television Blues"

Featured Characters:

  • Captain Kid

Antagonists:

  • Pudgy
  • Dick
  • their 12 friends

Synopsis for "Captain Marvel and the American Century Ch. 2: Sivana's Plot in the Past"

Doctor Sivana unleashes a new Time Stopping Ray he has concealed in his jacket and fires it, freezing time in a controlled area around himself, making it impossible for them to catch him temporally. They resolve to keep Sivana from destroying the Half-Century Fair. Over time, Captain Marvel shows Mr. Morris the new Panorama of History of the American Century and a list of the Democratic Ideals attained since 1900 to 1950! Mr. Morris muses about how it would be interesting if people could see and hear these great moments of the past, so Captain Marvel decides to go back in time with a movie camera to make a documentary of American freedom! Dr. Sivana eavesdrops on Captain Marvel doing this via Radarvision and decides to ruin his plans and packs up his Time Ship to go back in time to meddle with Captain Marvel!

First, Captain Marvel arrives at the turn of the Century, where a parade is going commemorating the end of the Spanish-American War after Col. Theodore Roosevelt stormed San Juan Hill in Cuba to smash imperialism. While getting the footage he needs, Sivana unleashes a cloud of fog to ruin the shot, makes his trademark laugh to lure Captain Marvel to the roof, fires his Time Stopping Ray and escapes into the future.

Next, Captain Marvel hangs off the Rock of Eternity to travel to 1912, when Arizona officially gained Statehood and therefore the last time they had to create a new flag. Sivana soon storms in with his own “Official Flag of the Sivana Century” (with a picture of him wearing a crown in the middle.) In 1918, Captain Marvel goes to find Kaiser Wilhelm II being sent into exile after his defeat in the Great War, only to find Sivana making a goofy ruckus. In 1941, he films Pres. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill signing the Atlantic Pact, declaring the Four Freedoms, only for Sivana to dash in and bother him again, then once more on April 25th, 1945, when the UN is opened. Sivana boasts that his Radarvision picks up every word he says, so he’ll always be one step ahead of him and dials in to watch his next move after he leaves.

Appearing in "Captain Marvel and the American Century Ch. 2: Sivana's Plot in the Past"

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  • Colonel Teddy Roosevelt, 1900 (Cameo)

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Synopsis for "Captain Marvel and the American Century Ch. 3: Sivana's Plot in the Future"

Doctor Sivana lands in September 1945 to see the unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japanese Government to General MacArthur, only to find that Captain Marvel just went back to 1900 to get better footage of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, going back and getting all the footage that he needed before. Sivana is furious that he cannot keep up with nonlinear filming schedules. Mr. Morris is impressed by Captain Marvel having created a documentary that defies the laws of time and the two soon look into their next exhibit, for Science and Invention! These include Penicillin (the Wonder Drug) and Atomic Power! Dr. Sivana soon sneaks in and finds a large X-ray machine and turns it on to irradiate some painters, but it makes a loud noise that Captain Marvel soon overhears. Though Mr. Morris spots Sivana, Captain Marvel points out if he gets too close, he’ll just stop time and run off anyways, but Captain Marvel decides he’ll go after him to personally ensure he doesn’t do anything, but Sivana easily notes he can set off a rocket while activating the Time Stopping Ray, meaning it’ll take off before he can stop it. However, Sivana miscalculated, since the rocket won’t actually take off in the frozen time and Captain Marvel can move just as fast as one. Sivana scarpers in the meantime.

Captain Marvel and Mr. Morris look over the next pavilion, Future Inventions, which include such fanciful ideals as Weather Control, spaceships, a cure for cancer and radar views of space. Sivana decides to use these future invention ideas to distract Captain Marvel and creates a “Future Radio.” He has it delivered to Captain Marvel via a lackey and claims that it is a program from 2000 and it’s June 10th, 50 years since Sivana took over the world and became King! Captain Marvel is dismayed to hear about this and checks out the future year of 2000 to make sure that isn’t true. In the meantime, Dr. Sivana breaks into the Atomic Energy display and sets it to go off in just one more minute, having retreated to his lab.

Appearing in "Captain Marvel and the American Century Ch. 3: Sivana's Plot in the Future"

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  • Sivana's Time-stopping Ray
  • Sivana's Radarvision Set
  • Half Century Fair's Atomic Power Plant
  • Half Century Fair's X-Ray Machine
  • Sivana's fake Future Radio Receiver

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Synopsis for "Captain Marvel and the American Century Ch. 4: The Glory of Tomorrow"

Captain Marvel returns to the Half-Century Fair and shuts off the atomic pile, having returned halfway after realizing that there’s no way that Sivana could be King for a whole century since it would make him an incredibly old man and destroys the fake Future Radio. Sivana decides that he’ll avoid this fate by creating an Elixir of Immortality. As the Fair opens, Captain Marvel calls SHAZAM to return Billy, who invites a flood of kids to the Grand Tour of America, a big plane ride for 100 children to open the Fair and their Geography Exhibit. One of the children, disturbingly, is Sivana in disguise and thinks on how harming children will harm the future of America literally and runs into the cockpit once Billy enters, gassing him and both pilots, knocking them out, and then scarpers with his Vestpocket Parachute. A woozy Billy manages to open an oxygen tank directly into his face, rousing him from the anesthetic effect and calls SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel who lands the plane. Dr. Sivana finds he’s landed in a mountain range and is forced to walk back to town to try to get involved in ruining things. The Grand Tour comes to a close and the Half-Century Fair opens with Captain Marvel showing a colorful cast of living celebrities have come to speak with any interested children, including Pres. Truman and Albert Einstein! Captain Marvel heads out to look into the heavy police detail guarding things, not suspecting that Sivana is already sneaking in, having created an Invisible Paint and an Invisible Bomb with it, rolling it in to the Opening Day Ceremonies.

Meanwhile, Captain Marvel has gone to the future year of 2000 to find that they’re having a mirroring Century Fair to honor the “Great American Century,” only for historians to hand him a big blue book that tells him something highly important and they have a special record that told them to do this. Captain Marvel flies back to the past and punches Sivana over, intuiting where he’d be hiding and defuses the bomb. He writes in to a large blue book, a Historical Record, that Sivana is going to try to ruin the Half-Century Fair, which is what he saw in the future. Pres. Truman cuts the ribbon and opens the Half-Century Fair and says that the next half of the century is for the young people and in their hands is the fate of America, democracy and freedom, a sacred trust, carried on to newer and greater triumph. Captain Marvel tears up the Sivana Century banner and Mr. Tawny and Mr. Morris both cheer for America and the American Century.

Appearing in "Captain Marvel and the American Century Ch. 4: The Glory of Tomorrow"

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  • Sivana's Anesthetic Gas
  • Sivana's Vestpocket Parachute
  • Sivana's Invisible Paint
  • Sivana's Invisible Bomb

Vehicles:

  • chartered 4-engine airliner

Notes

  • Also appearing in this issue of Captain Marvel Adventures were:
    • Absent-Minded Abner
    • Tightwad Tad: "Silver Sap!"
    • Professor Tuck, & Cluck: "Memory Morons"
    • Jon Jarl: "Space Scavenger Hunt" (text story) by Eando Binder
    • Dopey Danny Dee by George Marko



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