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Captain Marvel Adventures Vol 1 138

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"Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Fights the Flying Disk Danger"": After dinner, Pa Potter goes into the backyard to watch for flying saucers. Soon he spots a real one, and Captain Marvel goes to meet it when it makes a rough landing. Out of it come ragged slaves who say they've come to ask for h

Ho! Varlets! I was made by an evil sorcerer five hundred years ago! Now you have brought me back to life to rob and kill once more! Die knave! Ho!
— Ye Haunted Knight

Captain Marvel Adventures #138 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1952.

Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Fights the Flying Disk Danger"

After dinner, Pa Potter goes into the backyard to watch for flying saucers. Soon he spots a real one, and Captain Marvel goes to meet it when it makes a rough landing. Out of it come ragged slaves who say they've come to ask for help, but are killed by a heat ray from the ship they'd been fleeing before they can say anymore. Marvel puts his intelligence to the task of figuring out how to fly the saucer, which allows him to see more like it above Antarctica, where men from another planet are stealing pieces of the ice shelf! They manage to escape with their ill-gotten ice when stealing so much of Antarctica's mass causes the planet to become unbalanced and start to shake from its orbit! Captain Marvel commandeers a planetoid of equivalent weight and uses that to make up the difference, then pursues the saucer men to their own planet. There he finds out people are stealing the ice at the behest of their evil king, since the planet's so close to its sun, that's the only way they aren't all burned to a crisp. After leading a coup to overthrow their evil King, Klonkk, Captain Marvel pushes the planet to a habitable distance so they won't need to steal any ice.

Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Fights the Flying Disk Danger"

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Supporting Characters:


Antagonists:

  • King Klonkk

Other Characters:

  • Ma and Pa Potter

Locations:

Items:

  • Death ray guns

Vehicles:

  • Flying Saucers


Synopsis for Capt. Kid: "The Losing Winner

Captain Kid is told by a smiling man that he’s won the “Crinkly-Winkly Radio Quiz Program Contest” by answering the correct answers and he can choose between a week in the country or a two-piece beach outfit. Captain Kid asks about the outfit and finds out it’s a pail and a shovel! The announcer says that was a joke and the real prize is a week in the country courtesy of Farmer Brown who will expect him tomorrow. The announcer promises that after he buys a ticket to Hayseed Falls, one of Farmer Brown’s hands will meet him at the station. Captain Kid soon arrives in Hayseed Falls and hears a nearby hick at the station spanking a rabbit. When asked why he’s doing it, he says the rabbit is so dumb he can’t even multiply correctly or even count! The Hand picks up Captain Kid and offers he head to the buggy and brings the rabbit with him. A few minutes later, the farmhand shows him a picture of the Farm and finds that they don’t have a barn and Farmer Brown and his wife are easily confused for a goat and a cow respectively. Arriving, he finds that Farmer Brown is trying to fuse a shoe-tree with a rubber plant to invent galoshes and soon tells Captain Kid he can do anything he wants… after his numerous chores of cleaning out the barn, milking the cows, feeding the chickens, tending the horses, pitching the hay and then he can relax, though he usually doesn’t find the time to himself! Captain Kid angrily says he’s going back to the city and that he’s lucky he didn’t lose that contest!

Appearing in Capt. Kid: "The Losing Winner

Featured Characters:

  • Captain Kid

Supporting Characters:

  • A Farmhand

Antagonists:

  • Farmer Brown
  • The Crinkly-Winkly Radio Program Quiz Announcer

Other Characters:


Locations:

Items:

  • A Foolish Rabbit

Vehicles:

  • A Buggy

Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Horrible Haunted Armor"

An antique dealer runs a shop across the street from the antique shop Billy's landlord runs, but his offers to buy the place are rebuffed. He schemes to eliminate Mr. Potter by putting him inside a haunted suit of armor, so that when Captain Marvel attacks the rampaging menace, he'll unwittingly kill the innocent man inside! Learning what's going on, Captain Marvel avoids attacking the animate armor until Billy manages to stick it to the ground with tar from a construction site. He's then able to safely tear the armor open and mash it into a useless ball before arresting Mr. Potter's unscrupulous rival.

Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Horrible Haunted Armor"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Pa Potter

Antagonists:

  • Ye Haunted Knight (Destroyed)
  • Jonas K. Throtten

Other Characters:


Locations:

Items:

  • A Barrel of Tar

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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel the World's Maddest Ghost!"

Sivana tries to shoot Billy on the street and bomb Billy's office, but the boy's forewarned by a new invention from Dexter Knox that sounds an alarm whenever the villain's nearby. When Captain Marvel pursues Sivana's helicopter, it crashes into a cliff and the evil scientist dies, but Marvel brings his body back to civilization to ensure he gets a proper burial. Standing over his grave, however, Captain Marvel's shocked when what claims to be Sivana's ghost appears! He claims to want to atone for the evils he committed in life, and lend his genius to Dexter's projects.

Sivana captures both boys and reveals he's still very much alive, faking his death to get their guard down. Before he can finish them off, he's distracted by what sound like police sirens closing in on the property (actually Billy's alarm device, which he threw away when he thought he didn't have to worry about Sivana's attempts on his life anymore). This distraction gives Billy the chance to slip his gag by pouring acid on his face, transform, and capture his archenemy.

Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel the World's Maddest Ghost!"

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Other Characters:

Locations:

Items:

  • Dexter Knox's Sivana Siren
  • Sivana's Rocket Bullet Gun
  • A Sivana Shaped Dummy (Destroyed)
  • A Jar of Acid

Vehicles:

  • Sivana's Automatic Plane

Trivia

  • Despite the cover, Ye Haunted Knight wields a sword and a lance instead of a halberd and Sivana isn't actually a ghost, but just pretending to be one.
  • If the splash page is to be believed, Sivana was born in 1892, making him now 60 years old in the "modern day" of 1952


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