Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1952.
Synopsis for "The Pressure Peril"
The earth shakes from the forces of Captain Marvel and King Kull exchanging blows in an underground cavern. Kull distracts Marvel by tipping a giant rock formation over on him then running off, until he finds a cavern with a giant lack of frozen oxygen. Kull then throws a thermite bomb into it, expelling all the oxygen above ground into the atmosphere. The overabundance not only makes everyone too disoriented to stay upright, it also starts blotting out the sun and causing a new ice age. Captain Marvel flies into the asteroid belt and finds one that's almost pure magnesium, that erupts and burns up the excess oxygen when Marvel flies it into Earth's atmosphere. King Kull's managed to escape to his underground lair in the meantime.
Appearing in "The Pressure Peril"
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Synopsis for "The Dog Dilemma"
Appearing in "The Dog Dilemma"
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Synopsis for "A New Home for Billy"
Billy moves into a new apartment, and after a prowler sets the landlady's laundry on fire, he meets Dexter Knox when the child prodigy uses a device he invented to put out the fire. Dexter lives next door, and invites Billy over for supper. Mr. Knox has been an invalid for ten years, and Dexter hopes to invent something he can sell to ease his family's money issues. When Dexter shows Billy his lab, the prowler from before, Gus Crummly, ties them up and steals Dexter's fire-smothering gun. After they escape, Billy transforms and goes after him. He catches Gus in the act of trying to show off the device to the fire department (responding to a fire Crummly started), but Marvel catches him, and Dexter's family is set up nicely with the patent money for Dexter's fire-suppression device.
Appearing in "A New Home for Billy"
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Supporting Characters:
- Dexter Knox (First appearance)
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- Gus Crummly
Other Characters:
- Ma Potter
- Pa Potter
- Mr. Knox
- Mrs. Knox
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- WHIZ Radio
- Haven House
- New York City
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- Quench Gun
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