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"The King of Storms": Billy travels to Loupang Island where he meets the Storm King, who uses his skills as a weather forecaster to claim to control the weather, meaning the Islanders pay him money for good weather. Billy sneaks into his house and finds this out. However he is captured by the St

Quote1 Now explain, before I do you in a braid! What have you got against little Billy Batson? Quote2
Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel Adventures #13 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1942.

Synopsis for "The King of Storms"

Billy travels to Loupang Island where he meets the Storm King, who uses his skills as a weather forecaster to claim to control the weather, meaning the Islanders pay him money for good weather. Billy sneaks into his house and finds this out. However he is captured by the Storm King, who leaves him tied to a chair and gagged for a hurricane which is about to hit the Island and will hit the house. However Steamboat hears Billy has been captured. He goes to the house and frees Billy, who becomes Captain Marvel, who redirects the cyclone hitting the island. The Storm King, escaping by boat, is caught in the tornado and killed.

Appearing in "The King of Storms"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • J.J. Drupp, the Storm King (Single appearance; dies)
    • Ciggy Cirano
      • two killers

Other Characters:

  • Pacque Boat, Steamboat's Haitian cousin (speaks no English)

Locations:

Items:

  • Drupp's meteorological instruments

Vehicles:

  • banana boat, from New York to Loupang


Synopsis for "The Perfect Gentleman"


Appearing in "The Perfect Gentleman"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Sterling Morris
  • Old Park Gang, now the Captain Marvel Club
    • Littletoes
    • Bicky
    • Whizzer
    • Bubbles

Antagonists:

  • Perroti Mob

Other Characters:

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Stinko's chauffeured roadster

Synopsis for "The Diamond of Doom"

A native from "the depths of the Central American jungles" sells a huge diamond to wealthy Mr. Ruxton, only to suddenly keel over dead from tropical heart disease. Ruxton himself succumbs to apoplexy shortly thereafter. When Captain Marvel shows up and catches the butler and chauffeur in the process of stealing the diamond, the butler tosses it to the chauffeur, who slips and falls to his death out the fourth-floor window. Ruxton's parrot also dies, having swallowed the diamond out of the air, but Marvel removes it from the bir's carcass in a post-mortem. The police report reveals that the man who tried to unload the diamond on Ruxton stole it from a temple and had been dogged by bad luck up to the moment of his death.

His supernatural powers warning him there is indeed a deadly curse on the stone, Captain Marvel throws it out the window. It bounces into the car of a trio of gangsters. Distracted by the sight of the diamond, the driver dies when he head-ons the car into a wall, and his partners in crime kill each other in their desire to be the only owners of the diamond. Witnessing the scene of carnage, Marvel decides the only safe thing to do with the diamond is return it to the temple it was stolen from. The only entrance is a tiny window, so Marvel changes back to Billy to crawl inside. However, the curse strikes him and he forgets his magic word! Inside, the angry idol attacks by flailing around, trying to recover its diamond eye. Billy manages to jump and shove the diamond into the idol's eye socket. This breaks the curse and he remembers his magic word, transforms and pummels the idol into rubble. With the idol destroyed, so is the curse on the diamond, which Marvel donates to the War Relief Fund.

Appearing in "The Diamond of Doom"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Pauncho, Captain Marvel's old friend

Antagonists:

  • Ruxton's butler
  • Ruxton's chauffeur (Dies)
  • three random gangsters (all die)

Other Characters:

  • Mr. Ruxton, financier (Dies)
  • unnamed diamond dealer (Dies)
  • Police Chief Brannigan
  • Medical Examiner

Animals:

  • Ruxton's parrot (Dies)

Locations:

Items:

  • Idol's Eye diamond, cursed
  • one-eyed Idol, animated and enraged (Destroyed)

Synopsis for Captain Kid: "The Big Game Hunt"


Appearing in Captain Kid: "The Big Game Hunt"

Featured Characters:

  • Captain Kid

Supporting Characters:

  • Capt. Kid's Mom
  • Aunt Dora
  • Betty Mae

Antagonists:


Other Characters:


Locations:

  • Swatville

Items:


Animals:

  • Herman, a mole (Dies)
  • Bubbles, miniature dog
  • a rat (Dies)
  • a skunk

Synopsis for "The Job He Couldn't Do"

Billy's invited over for a picnic by Cissie Sommerly, but she also invited a hot-headed punk named Ozzie. He pulls Billy into the bushes and beats him down so he won't get any ideas about making a move on Cissie. Billy changes to Captain Marvel, who settles accounts by giving Ozzie the spanking of his life for picking on somebody half his size, but Ozzie manages to make himself out as the victim to Cissie. Captain Marvel saves them when they go swimming too soon after eating, but it looks as if Billy hid while they were in trouble.

They catch some thieves stealing the tires off their car, but Billy refuses to transform, not willing to let himself look bad in front of Cissie again. The thieves kidnap her too to get a ransom from Sterling Morris, and Billy runs after their car, agreeing to transform because only Captain Marvel could catch up with them. Then once Billy's alone with the criminals, he transforms and beats them all up with ease, Cissie thinking Billy did it, and giving him a kiss in gratitude.

Appearing in "The Job He Couldn't Do"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Ozzie
  • four hoodlums

Other Characters:


Locations:

Items:


Vehicles:


Notes

  • Indicia on 1st page of this issue calls it "July 24, 1942, Vol. 3, No. 13"
  • In "The Perfect Gentleman", at the Winthrop Theater, an EXCITING SPY SMASHER ADVENTURE is showing.
  • This issue of Captain Marvel Adventures also featured:
    • Contents Page
    • Captain Marvel pin-up (double page)
    • "Tire Trap" (text story), by Douglas Mann

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