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"Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Return of the Ancient Villain"": King Kull, the last of the Submen, a prehistorical race which enslaved the ancient humans, awakes from suspended animation and begins his revenge against humanity. He builds a machine to crash the Moon into the Earth, but

Quote1 The humans won out, and there came a day when I, the King of my people, was the last survivor of the Submen! All my people...gone! Those humans have exterminated us, just because we used to capture and torture them! Quote2
King Kull

Captain Marvel Adventures #125 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1951.

Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Return of the Ancient Villain"

King Kull, the last of the Submen, a prehistorical race which enslaved the ancient humans, awakes from suspended animation and begins his revenge against humanity. He builds a machine to crash the Moon into the Earth, but Captain Marvel is able to beat him until he reveals where it is. Captain Marvel destroys it, but King Kull escapes to wage war against Earth once more.

Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Return of the Ancient Villain"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:


Antagonists:

  • King Kull (First appearance)
    • Submen (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Charlie

Locations:

Items:

  • King Kull's Moon Machine (Destroyed)

Vehicles:

  • A Station WHIZ Van


Synopsis for Jon Jarl in "The Ice World"

Jon crash lands on Ariel, a moon of Uranus, which is covered in thick ice. He is despondent until he finds people live there below the surface, are humanoid blue people, and that they use lava pools to live underground. Suddenly, a giant ice earthquake destroys their mining operation, dooming them all, but Jon reveals that some frozen people, whom he unfreezes and they reveal they had heat-rays and food-machines they can survive there with. He soon leaves the Ice World, happy to know that the survivors there can now leave if they want to.

Appearing in Jon Jarl in "The Ice World"

Featured Characters:

  • Lt. Jon Jarl
  • The Blue Man
  • The Frozen People

Locations:

  • Ariel, Fourth Moon of Uranus (An Ice World)

Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Dilemma of the Double Identity"

Billy Batson is reminding people, yet again, via WHIZ-TV that Dr. Sivana is still wanted for being the World’s Maddest Scientist. He soon gets an anonymous letter claiming he’s hiding out at Fox Square, so Billy calls SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel and takes off to find him there. However, when he tries to apprehend him, he finds this isn’t Dr. Sivana, but a man who just so happens to look exactly like him, named Professor Jonathan Swope! Prof. Swope points out he usually has a beard to off-put how he looks like the world’s greatest criminal, but someone attacked him in the night and shaved it off. Captain Marvel, believing nothing of it, carries him to prison where Swope is very cross to being imprisoned. Meanwhile, the real Dr. Sivana has put on a fake beard to replace Swope’s life and hires professional killer “Mayhem” Monk to kill the real Swope before he can be fingerprinted (and therefore exonerated) and gives him a fake suicide note for “Dr. Sivana” to have on him and instructions to leave the gun. Quickly, Sivana assumes Prof. Swope’s riches and smokes his cigars and waves around his money. Monk moves in to attack the jail skylight, while Captain Marvel thinks hard about how Prof. Swope didn’t giggle like Sivana does incessantly. He flies back and finds Monk, punching him out and unwinds Sivana’s plot, returning to Swope’s mansion dressed in Monk’s clothes and reveals that he didn’t hear the giggle from Prof. Swope. Later, Billy invites Prof. Swope on to WHIZ-TV to give him a public apology. Prof. Swope puts back on Sivana’s fake beard so he won’t look like him anymore.

Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Dilemma of the Double Identity"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Prof. Jonathan Swope (Sivana's Doppelgänger)

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Other Characters:


Locations:

Items:

  • A Fake Beard

Vehicles:



Synopsis for Captain Kid: "The Self-Made Hero"

All of Captain Kid’s friends are telling him how they do odd jobs for spending money, but Captain Kid says he wants to be a hero. To that end, a gruff man invites him to drive his car to the Douglas Brothers’ parking lot on the corner of Baden and Hanover and he’ll give him $5 to do it. The man says his name is Ed and if anyone asks, just to say he’s “lining up another job.” Captain Kid drives there and finds that the man there is Ed Schmed Douglas’ brother and they sell used cars. Captain Kid says Ed was lining up another job and runs back and gets his money from Ed. Captain Kid gets it in his head that Ed is stealing cars and using him to discreetly drive them to his used car lot to sell them and knocks him out with a wrench, deciding that he’ll turn them in for a huge reward! However, when he does so, the cops say that Douglas Brothers do own the lot. Captain Kid asks why they were hiring him to do it and Ed admits that he’s not good at parking cars and was more worried about banging a fender than paying a child to do it for him, prompting the Douglas Brothers to both punch him in the face, giving him two black eyes. He walks home, figuring you can’t set out to be a hero.

Appearing in Captain Kid: "The Self-Made Hero"

Featured Characters:

  • Captain Kid

Supporting Characters:


Antagonists:

  • Ed Schmed Douglas
  • Ed Schmed Douglas' Brother

Other Characters:

  • A Cop

Locations:

  • Earth-S
    • Podunk City
      • Douglas Brothers' Used Cars and Parking Lot

Items:

  • A Wrench

Vehicles:

  • Two Used Cars

Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Mechanical Man Mystery"

Mr. Morris needs to hire someone new and Miss Dalshaw leans in to say that a man named “Timmy Tinkle” has come to see about the job. He and Billy are amazed to find that Timmy Tinkle is a robot! His inventor, Ivan Derook, appears and explains that he created him to be an intelligent worker. After one year’s time, he has decided he is sentient enough to live on his own and that to make him work without pay would be akin to slavery. Mr. Morris decides he’ll try him out, finding he can easily move large, heavy boxes in their stockroom. Billy finds that Timmy whistles while he works like a human would and this endears him to him. Timmy admits that he wants friends that see him as no different from them and not seen as being a robot first. Later, Billy hears a loud cracking noise and calls SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel, who flies out and finds Timmy has been sent up to repair a broken television aerial, but it has broken off anyways. Trying to hold it steady from falling off Station WHIZ altogther, Timmy falls alongside it, but Captain Marvel sets both down safely and they work together to fix the aerial. Captain Marvel says that he, like Billy, is his friend. At the end of the day, Timmy retires to a broom closet and Billy turns him off.

The next morning, Mr. Morris is outraged to find that his safe has broken into and the night watchman, Gus, says that the robot did it. Billy points out Timmy was turned off and is in the same closet he had him in from before and also isn’t a bad person! Gus insists all the same that he was attacked by Timmy Tinkle. That night, Captain Marvel watches and finds that a more sinister-looking Timmy has approached to rip open the safe. Captain Marvel is forced to punch him over and starts to disassemble his circuitry, finding that he’s being remote-controlled by someone. He connects the right circuit and he activates this “Mr. Hyde” Timmy mode and he runs back to his hideout, which is run by Ivan Derook using a complex machine. Captain Marvel dives in and breaks the remote-control machine and tears out the circuitry that runs it, allowing Timmy to actually be a free person now that his creator cannot control him.

Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Mechanical Man Mystery"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Ivan Derook

Other Characters:

  • Miss Dalshaw

Locations:

Items:

  • Station WHIZ Aerial

Vehicles:


Trivia

  • The issue also features a set of one-page (or shorter) gag comic strips that do not feature any members of the Marvel/Shazam family.


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