The rugged adventurous life... that must be the key to happiness! I'm going to be the first man... or tiger... to climb mighty Mount Everest! Excelsior! 
Captain Marvel Adventures #117 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1951.
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Fights the Quicksand Quandary"
Billy Batson is walking through the park on his lunch hour when he finds that the gentle meadow he was walking through has turned into deadly quicksand! Before he drowns in the quicksand, he calls SHAZAM and summons Captain Marvel, who easily breaks out, saves a child hanging off of a statue of George Washington, a lady off a park bench and two businessmen, dropping them off on the concrete walkway outside the park. He is disturbed to find the sidewalk and then the street are also turning into quicksand, dragging a man out of a green sedan before it sinks entirely. He tries to get the NYPD to reroute people away from the oncoming sinking and then dives into it to get literally to the bottom. A man in a blue work raincoat pumps Quicksand Oil Concentrate into the bedrock of New York City through its sewer system. Captain Marvel quickly finds the Concentrate Tank and punches it to scraps as the madman responsible scarpers into the maze of tunnels below the city. He goes to make a big report at Station WHIZ, but finds the entire ABC Building is sinking into the quicksand too! He quickly lifts it up by its mobile foundation and sets it in the bucolic countryside and decides to check up on City Council, who have gotten word on a “Quicksand Fighter Corporation” and Captain Marvel flies him there, finding it’s run by one J Snodgrass. Snodgrass agrees to do it, for $1,000,000, which the City Councilman is more than fine with. Snodgrass informs him that they’ll need a ridiculous amount of concrete poured into the quicksand that he plans on procuring for them. To save on such costs, Captain Marvel uses a giant cement mixer and mixes it himself and sinking it into the cement, which manages to work after he does it overnight. Snodgrass offers that he’ll take only half the payment since Captain Marvel helped, but Captain Marvel reveals he’s found the raincoat he was wearing earlier and punches him out, taking him to jail. Captain Marvel thinks on if there’s anything left to fix… and then remembers he left Station WHIZ in a distant cow-field and flies off to set it back in place.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Fights the Quicksand Quandary"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- J Snodgrass
Other Characters:
- Members of the New York City Council
Locations:
Items:
- Quicksand Oil Concentrate
- Massive Amounts of Mixed Concrete
- Statue of Pres. George Washington
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Capt. Kid: "The Fatal Trip"
Captain Kid wants to borrow his father’s car to take Betty Mae shopping, but his father knows better than to trust him with anything expensive and that any accident he has in his car would become his problem. Mr. Brown soon shows up with two canes, having broken his leg and still needing to wear a cast for a month, but is feeling positive and wants to talk business with Mr. Kid. Seeing that he’ll likely be talking for a long time, Captain Kid sneaks off and moves some packages from his dad’s car into the backseat so he can pick up Betty Mae an hour late. Betty Mae goes to get her handkerchief and a dog jumps into the passenger seat while Captain Kid isn’t looking. He pulls a double take when he sees there’s a dog in his dad’s car and swerves aggressively towards a lamp-post before righting himself and stopping in front of Betty Mae. When he tries to explain what happened, she is insulted being compared to a dog, hits him with her purse and leaves. Captain Kid drives back home and gets a flat tire, but doesn’t know how to fix this, so he just leaves it a mile from their house. Mr. Kid figures out what happened and tells Captain Kid that he promised to drive Mr. Brown home and he won’t break a promise, so he instead forces Captain Kid to carry Mr. Brown to his car as they all run there!
Appearing in Capt. Kid: "The Fatal Trip"
Featured Characters:
- Captain Kid
Supporting Characters:
- Captain Kid's Father
- Betty Mae
Antagonists:
- A Dog
Other Characters:
- Mr. Brown
Locations:
- Earth-S
- Podunk
Items:
Vehicles:
- Mr. Kid's Car
Synopsis for Mr. Tawky Tawny: "Mr. Tawny Seeks Happiness"
Mr. Tawky Tawny is mowing his lawn and finds he has too many household chores and his life is becoming less fun. He spots his neighbor, Mr. Cranshaw, who looks markedly happier than him. Mr. Crenshaw confirms that he got back from seeing the world, so Mr. Tawny decides to try travel. A week later, Billy Batson arrives to find Mr. Tawny has just abandoned his home altogether and left for the Casbah! Worried that Mr. Tawny has gone to a hard town like the Casbah in the Old Quarter of Algiers, he calls SHAZAM so Captain Marvel can fly there and find him. Mr. Tawny enjoys the exotic locale, but dislikes the amount of smoke. A woman trips over and falls on him, prompting a violent Frenchman wearing a striped shirt to threaten him with a hunting knife, cutting his green beret in half. Captain Marvel flies in to punch over the violent mustached man and carries Mr. Tawny to somewhere safer. Mr. Tawny says he’s seeking happiness, but he hasn’t found it here, but Captain Marvel says that happiness isn’t some distant green pasture he needs to “find” and that he could go home. Mr. Tawny decides to sneak off and decides to climb Mt. Everest, the world’s tallest mountain. However, halfway up he starts getting very cold due to Mr. Tawny wearing a polo shirt and then falls off the mountain when a large chunk of it breaks off underneath him. Captain Marvel catches him in time, saying he’d been looking for him and sets him at a hotel again. Mr. Tawny says being exotic and being rugged haven’t panned out, so he has Captain Marvel drop him off at a relaxed South Seas island. He enjoys their large flowers, plentiful fruit where attractive women play ukuleles for him… before violent murderous headhunters storm in and capture Mr. Tawny, tying him to a stake in preparation to cut off his head. Captain Marvel admits he knew that violent murderous headhunters lived on this island, but waited until they attacked to find them. He soon takes him home and Mr. Cranshaw admits his trip also wasn’t really that great and didn’t want to talk about it. Captain Marvel tells Mr. Tawny that home is where happiness lies and Mr. Tawny learns to appreciate the world around him.
Appearing in Mr. Tawky Tawny: "Mr. Tawny Seeks Happiness"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- A Knife-Wielding Frenchman
- Murderous South Seas Headhunters
Other Characters:
- Mr. Cranshaw
Locations:
Items:
- A Green Beret (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Battles the Inflammable Water" or "The Day When Water Burned!"
Bart Barton owns a gas station and finds that a new business is opening up across the street, selling fuel from a well run by Gus Gordon. Bart decides to attack Gus for trying to steal his business as Mr. Morris and Billy Batson drive by. They stop for gas and Billy sees two people fighting and calls SHAZAM. Captain Marvel points out that you can’t pump gasoline with a well and that it’s full of water, but Gus reveals he has an “Aqua Activator” that he’s cooked up in his chemistry lab that makes water inflammable and therefore, can run a car! He shows off lighting a puddle aflame and then tries it in Mr. Morris’ car, which works fine. What’s more, he only charges a nickel a gallon. Captain Marvel heads off to get Billy to Station WHIZ (since Mr. Morris drove off without him) and since Billy has a broadcast soon. The next day, Billy reads a report on Gus Gordon’s inflammable water on the news, but is shocked when a random man drinking water suddenly combusts while smoking. Calling SHAZAM, Captain Marvel manages to roll him in a rug, dousing the flame and finds that it tastes different, realizing this is Gus’ Activated Water. On the way to see him about it, Captain Marvel finds a car on fire, but the firefighters soon arrive as he rescues the woman in the car. They’re stunned to find that inflammable water is spraying from the hydrant too, forcing Captain Marvel to borrow a few train cars full of sand to douse the fire. Flying out to the country where Gus’ station is, he finds a farmer lighting his field on fire by accident due to it having Activated Water on it, which Captain Marvel is able to block by just planking in the fire’s path until it burns itself out. Captain Marvel figures out that Gus Gordon’s well is connected to the aquifers that supply the water in the area. He soon arrives at Gordon’s and finds that he’s not around. Bart Barton has managed to kidnap Gordon, tied him up and submerges him almost to the neck in a barrel of Activated Water and strikes matches, threatening to steal his formula for himself and burn him alive, but Gordon refuses to tell it to him. Captain Marvel leaps in to blow out the match and punches Barton out, but gives Gordon the horrible news that his Aqua Activator might endanger all water on the planet if the aquifers connect to the ocean and helps him develop a neutralizer that will destroy the Activator entirely. Gordon decides to destroy the formula forever and Billy signs off later by showing that water now puts out fire again.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Battles the Inflammable Water" or "The Day When Water Burned!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Gus Gordon
Antagonists:
- Bart Barton
Other Characters:
- Mr. Morris
- Firefighters
- A Farmer
Locations:
Items:
- Gus Gordon's Aqua Activator (Destroyed)
- Gus Gordon's Activated Water
- Gus Gordon's Aqua Neutralizer
- Gus Gordon's Activated Water
Vehicles:
- Mr. Morris' Car
Notes
- Usually, quicksand is not capable of drowning human beings: its inherent density makes humans too buoyant to drag them under farther than chest-high or so. However, quicksand is still dangerous due to its ability to trap someone in it, leading to starvation and exposure to the elements.
Trivia
- At the time of this publication, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay would have yet to climb Mt. Everest and wouldn't do so for about another two years.
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