I can't stop this! And there's Mr. Tawny, a frivolous pleasure seeker now! His whole promising career is blasted! This is awful! How can I stop Mr. Tawny from being a worthless pleasure seeker? John Jolly may not be a criminal, but he's criminally warping and wasting lives! Yet... what can I do to stop him? 
Captain Marvel Adventures #128 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1952.
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Battles the Crystal Catastrophe"
Three scientists make the discovery of a formula that hardens water into unbreakable crystal all at the same time. One uses it for evil, turning water into hail to destroy farmlands, one accidentally floods the city by pouring it down the drain, and one uses it without considering the consequences by trying to make a bridge for cars across an ocean. Captain Marvel destroys two sets of them, but awards the patent to the second scientist, who has already managed to forget the formula.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Battles the Crystal Catastrophe"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Dr. Hugo, the Hail Maker
Other Characters:
- Prof. Joel Philpott
- Dr. Wilbur Wilde
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- WHIZ-TV
- Goat Island
- New York City
Items:
- Water-crystalizing formula
Vehicles:
- Dr. Hugo's Helicopter
Synopsis for Captain Kid: "The Mix Up"
A man offers that Captain Kid run his peanut stand while he's enjoying the game (he never misses a game!), but warns him to be very careful since the metal part of his stand has a boiler in it, making it very very hot and if he hurts himself, he needs to go see the local doctor, Dr. Howe. They get confused about his name for a while until the peanut man explains and Captain Kid says he has his own doctor, Dr. Hoo. The peanut man gets quickly tired of this exchange and decides he's not going to sell peanuts today, dumping his case of them on top of Captain Kid. Captain Kid, defeated, decides he'll need to see both Drs. Hoo and Howe!
Appearing in Captain Kid: "The Mix Up"
Featured Characters:
- Captain Kid
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- The Peanut Man
Other Characters:
- Dr. Howe (Mentioned only)
- Dr. Hoo (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth-S
- Podunk City
Items:
- Peanuts
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Mr. Tawky Tawny: "Mr. Tawny's Pleasure Peril"
Mr. Tawky Tawny has a busy life, being a docent and lecturer at the Natural History Museum during the day and writing adventure serials for Station WHIZ in the evening. He is alack to tell his friend George he can’t come by for canasta due to his busy schedule. On Sunday, his usual day off, even Billy Batson notices he seems to be overworking himself, but Mr. Tawny says he thrives on work. He suddenly finds a large sign showing that they’re near Hedonist Hollow and takes some time to sniff a flower. Billy tries to talk to him about his serial and he heads home to type up the script. In the still of the night, he looks up what “Hedonist” means and discovers that he’s rather the opposite of a hedonist. Kicking his typewriter, he decides he’s going to Hedonist Hollow and leaves in the night. Later on, Billy comes over to visit, but finds the typewriter kicked over and assumes there was a struggle, calling SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel. He soon finds that he’s joined Hedonist Hollow, where people seem to party all the time and just enjoy a life free of responsibilities. Mr. Tawny introduces him to the Chief of the Pleasure Seekers, John Jolly, a corpulent man who dresses like a Roman. He tells them that to “Eat, Drink and Be Merry” is their motto and he started this gala a month ago, but has decided to continue it indefinitely. Captain Marvel is upset that he’s keeping people from living productive lives and ruining their jobs and careers, but everyone tells him they enjoy being there and to basically get lost. Captain Marvel wonders if John Jolly is doing something to make people so strange and calls SHAZAM to return Billy, who smells the flowers and soon suddenly becomes a pleasure-seeker like the others. He joins Mr. Tawny in a canoe ride while they discuss how foolish writing their adventure serial was until Billy falls out of the canoe. In the water, he comes to his senses and calls SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel, who is more suspicious than ever. Captain Marvel quickly figures out that the special poppies do seem to entice people into becoming hedonists… but that also isn’t a crime either. Captain Marvel next wonders where the food all seems to be coming from and finds that John Jolly and his men are just stealing the food from a nearby warehouse and punches him out, then digs up the poppies. Later, Billy visits Mr. Tawny at home, who finds he’s elated and jumping for joy… Just to be back at home to write more of his serial!
Appearing in Mr. Tawky Tawny: "Mr. Tawny's Pleasure Peril"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- John Jolly
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- WHIZ-TV
- Hedonist Hollow
- New York City
Items:
- John Jolly's Pleasure Poppies
Vehicles:
- A United Warehouses, Inc. Truck
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the House That Didn't Want to Be Haunted"
A lonely and abandoned house is elated to find that Mr. Morris and Billy Batson are coming to take a look at it before he hopes to fix it up to make for a good house for one of his engineers. The house becomes worried due to errant lightning, but level-headed Billy says that there’s no such thing as ghosts! Seeing a visible cloud of vapor erupting from the dank basement, Mr. Morris is worried that it’s a ghost and starts to run away until Billy calls SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel. He soon tries punching this ghost, but instead finds that it’s just normal basement vapors… just as Mr. Morris falls through the busted floor and on to a discarded mattress. Captain Marvel looks around to see if he needs to actually address a ghostly problem as Mr. Morris hears whistling wind coming through the lack of weather-stripping and starts legging it again for the cellar stairs. Running facefirst into a discarded union suit on a clothesline, he thinks it’s a ghost and dashes off again. Captain Marvel goes to check on it and runs into Mr. Morris, knocking him into a pile of coal while he falls into a discarded sack of flour. Mr. Morris thinks that Captain Marvel is a ghost (while Captain Marvel thinks he’s a demon) and he quickly scarpers, deciding the house is definitely haunted, much to the house’s chagrin. Later, two men in suits come to look over the place, hoping it is a real haunted house, only finding Captain Marvel covered in flour. The men, upset that it isn’t haunted, leave in a huff and Captain Marvel leaves. The house is angry at him, but is happier when Captain Marvel returns with Mr. Morris and explains it’s just a busted house and the house is soon happy once it’s properly repaired and has a new engineer and his family ready to move in, thanking Captain Marvel after all.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the House That Didn't Want to Be Haunted"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Other Characters:
- Two Haunted House Fans
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- WHIZ-TV
- The House That Didn't Want to Be Haunted
- New York City
Items:
- A Union Suit
- A Sack of Flour
Vehicles:
Trivia
- This issue's Captain Kid story is highly reminiscent of Abbott and Costello's famed Who's on First? skit.
- This issue's last story is narrated by the house itself!
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