I live in obscurity, like a hermit! Do crowds cheer me? No! Does my name ever make the headlines? No! Do I ever win an Oscar? No! Am I in the Hall of Fame? No! This can't can't go on! I'm getting nowhere in life! I've got to make a change! I want fame! 
Captain Marvel Adventures #126 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1951.
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Great Heat Age!"
Billy Batson is interviewing a Prof. Joplin on a WHIZ-TV program, who has an Ancient Stone Tablet that tells the tale that ice was invented by an “evil sorcerer” who was executed for doing so. He surmises it was believed that creating ice was forbidden due to it being a culture between two Ice Ages. Thus, Billy decides to have Captain Marvel just go back in time and save his life, so he hangs off the Rock of Eternity to do so. Captain Marvel flies back to 30,000 BCE, where the world seems to be a consistent 150º and that this was indeed a “Heat Age” between the two Ice Ages. He finds a map dying in the desert of sunstroke and carries him to his village in a forested area, but they all begin to panic when a fire starts. Captain Marvel finds that the people are terrified to leave the forest (since the Sun is just as deadly) and Captain Marvel tears up the burning trees and throws them into the desert. What’s more, rain is boiling hot and makes everyone uncomfortably hot. Captain Marvel points out they need ice more than ever now, but finds out the man who invented ice, a hard cool version of water, was sentenced to death for witchcraft by exposure to the desert. They are saved by a sudden cool breeze created by a nearby glacier crashing into their forest. He flies outside to find where this glacier came from and finds that the Exile who created it lives in a large Ice Machine in on a nearby mountain, using the Ice Machine to both create ice to help them, but also creating a special Atomic Smoke that cools sunlight, cooling the air to save humanity. Captain Marvel thanks him for his help, but reveals that this will cause another Ice Age, leading to the forest people burning their furniture just to stay alive. Captain Marvel decides to fix this by using chemicals to “ionize” the smoke and clear the air, returning the sunlight. After some time, Captain Marvel finds they’ve managed to turn the Heat Age and Tiny Ice Age into a Temperate Age that will extend into modernity. Later, Billy signs off saying that the Heat Age and Tiny Ice Age are a distant memory of over 30,000 years ago...
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Great Heat Age!"
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Supporting Characters:
- The Heat Age Exile
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Other Characters:
- Prof. Joplin
Locations:
Items:
- An Ancient Stone Tablet
- An Ancient Ice Machine
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Synopsis for Captain Kid: "Easy Money"
Captain Kid is waiting at the Toll Bridge to get to Cyder Park to make easy money: He tells his friends that, for half the cost of the toll, he’ll drive them to a spot on the bridge they can climb down to the bank they want to and save money, guaranteeing them it will work out. When Captain Kid’s get to the bottom of the strut, they find the ground is swampy and demand he get them out of the muck they’re now sinking into. Captain Kid takes a rope and ties it to his bumper to try to tow them up. Captain Kid pulls them up and they demand not just their quarters back, but that he pay for the food they lost and dry-cleaning for their clothes. The toll man arrives and says he caught Captain Kid trying to avoid the toll, which is another $10 fine on top of it. Captain Kid finds he will owe them for months now and leaves in shame.
Appearing in Captain Kid: "Easy Money"
Featured Characters:
- Captain Kid
Supporting Characters:
- Pudgy
Antagonists:
- A Tollman
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- Podunk City
- The Podunk Toll Bridge
- Cyder Park
- The Podunk Toll Bridge
- Podunk City
Items:
- A Lunch Basket
Vehicles:
- Captain Kid's Car
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Creeping Horror"
Tom Smirch is a careless young lad who grew up into a careless teenager who accidentally starts a forest fire with a discarded cigarette. Tom soon becomes an adult and tries to drill for oil, but finds that instead there’s a river of worthless tar coming up that is starting to flood a nearby farm. He decides to leave and not do anything about it. Billy soon reports on the tar-flooded farm and calls SHAZAM after his broadcast to get Captain Marvel involved. Captain Marvel manages to save the farmer, his wife, their son and their animals and they start to cry quietly about their bad luck. Nearby, Captain Marvel clears the spreading tar off some train tracks before a train can arrive. Captain Marvel manages to push a bus through it, but is covered in tar doing so and has to dive into the ground itself to scrape all the tar off and hears someone shouting. It turns out that it’s Tom Smirch, who has struck oil, but also carelessly points out that he released the tar. Captain Marvel points out he’s committed criminal negligence and punches him in the chest, pointing out he can be just as careless in hitting him, then drags him away to show him where the original tar well is. Captain Marvel crushes the tar well into the hole to keep it from spreading and Tom demands to be taken back to his oil, not caring a lick until he finds out that the spreading tar sealed his oil well. Tom admits that he is wrong and carelessness doesn’t pay. Captain Marvel picks up a boulder to crack the tar once it’s dried, and brings the chunks to the farmer, offering he sell it to save his farm. Later, Billy signs off saying the tar was all cleaned up and only Tom lost out in the end.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Creeping Horror"
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Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Tom Smirch
Other Characters:
- A Farmer
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Items:
- A Tar Well
- An Oil Well
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Synopsis for "Mr. Tawny's Fight for Fame"
Mr. Tawky Tawny has become disgruntled with his normal routine and patter and no one will read his dry book about animal habits. He decides he wants to be famous and, when Billy Batson shows up, decides to have him help him do so. Billy shows him a Daily newspaper offering a scientist who worked for 20 years and got acclaim from his fellows and a much larger story about “Shipwreck” McKellar breaking the flagpole sitting record. Mr. Tawny takes the wrong lesson and thinks he needs to do something big and crazy and the next day, Billy announces on Station WHIZ that Mr. Tawny intends to go over the Highstone Falls without a barrel at noon! Billy naturally decides to go and see to try to stop him and calls SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel. However, he finds that Mr. Tawny is able to slide down the falls without killing himself and splashes into the water, so Captain Marvel instead flies him back up and says that the cheap hero worship won’t last as long as real admiration. Next, Mr. Tawny tries to use a giant seesaw on a boat to jump up on to the Brooklyn Bridge, the opposite of Steve Brody’s famed jump off of it!
However, Mr. Tawny finds he’s overshot the bridge entirely and Captain Marvel has to set him down before he lands. “Daredevil” Tawny soon decides to fire himself from one cannon into another cannon (finding the loaded spring inside is very hard) before it just dumps him on the ground. However, Billy shows him that people don’t care by upstaging him, floating down from the roof of Station WHIZ with roughly 30 balloons attached to his shoulders, which buoy him down softly. To help him feel better as he goes home in despair, Billy invites some scientists over and they look at Mr. Tawny’s manuscript, saying that he’s a patient, plodding genius and offer to take it to publication and he’s a scientist for the millennium. Mr. Tawny is happy to find that he’s become famous that he put effort into and Billy is happy he learned his lesson.
Appearing in "Mr. Tawny's Fight for Fame"
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Other Characters:
- "Shipwreck" McKellar (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- WHIZ Radio
- Highstone Falls
- Brooklyn Bridge
- New York City
Items:
- A Giant See-Saw
- Two Human Cannons
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