I'll visit the other world and... Holy Moley! No people... no cities... nothing! Th-this is the dead world! Oh no... No... No! How could I make this frightful blunder? That other world... millions of people dead... at my hands! 
Captain Marvel Adventures #141 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1953.
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Battles the Prehistoric Zombies"
Billy Batson is walking home after work when he’s accosted in an alleyway by familiar-looking cavemen and manages to call SHAZAM, summoning Captain Marvel, who rounds a corner to find many of these creatures are attacking people and are led by King Kull the Beastman! Seeing the World’s Mightiest Mortal on his way, he evacuates into a convenient chasm in the ground, through the sewers and into wherever he feels like. Captain Marvel figures that King Kull has managed to resurrect his race of beastly Submen, but returns to let Billy get some sleep so he can work on a better watch tomorrow night. However, Billy falls out of bed when all of Haven House starts tilting at 45° angle and calls SHAZAM, summoning Captain Marvel who pushes it back into place. He hears a laughing King Kull nearby, escaping into a cemetery and raising the bodies within it with a Zombie Ray. He laughs that he’s used it to create an army of zombies who can destabilize any building. Captain Marvel flies back to Station WHIZ and returns Billy to warn people to evacuate, but the WHIZ Building shaking violently knocks him out. When he wakes up, as usual, he’s bound and gagged, but this time he’s in a coffin where King Kull says he’s due to be buried alive by zombie pallbearers, which they end up doing. Once they’re gone, Billy kicks the interior of his sepulchre and uses the cracked coffin lid to slip his gag and call SHAZAM, summoning Captain Marvel once more to start tearing up what he finds to be a Submen zombie-led mining operation. Captain Marvel is also confused to find that King Kull is stealing buildings whole and decides to clear out the ground underneath, exposing hot lava that melts the Zombie Submen, but specifically saves King Kull so he can face war crimes charges, then stomps his Zombie Ray to pieces. He finds King Kull has escaped once more and later, Billy signs off saying that Captain Marvel won a ton of awards and will defend the world if and when King Kull returns.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Battles the Prehistoric Zombies"
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Antagonists:
- King Kull
- Submen (Dies)
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Items:
- King Kull's Zombie Ray (Destroyed)
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel, The Man Without a World!"
Billy Batson gets a planetary distress signal at a Station WHIZ Listening Post, warning that Planet Xixon is going to crash into a rogue planet! Billy calls SHAZAM and summons Captain Marvel, who takes a battery-powered radio to continue tracking. Captain Marvel finds his space bearings and cracks open the dead world, splitting it in half, guessing at which one is Xixon and which one isn’t, since there’s no further clarification. However, he receives a grim missive that he’s destroyed the wrong planet and the halved planet explodes. Captain Marvel looks out to find that the dead planet is the only one to remain… and that he’s killed every person on Planet Xixon. However, this is untrue entirely because these “distress signals” were actually sent by Dr. Sivana and that both planets were dead the whole time. To further this goal, Dr. Sivana flies off to the United Worlds and shows them “evidence” of Captain Marvel’s “attack” that “killed everyone” on Xixon and Captain Marvel is soon arrested and sentenced to a firing squad… which meets predictable results and amend his sentence to exile, naming him “The Man Without a World” and Captain Marvel is rejected by Earth society altogether, soon reduces to sitting on a small planetoid. He decides he could return Billy and just die in the void of space forever, but instead reasons to go live on the dead world he failed to stop. Investigating it, he finds that underground on the dead planet is a distinct society of sentient humanoid peoples who are actually from Xixon, but said it was far too cold to live there anymore, so they moved there. Captain Marvel realizes he’s been had and flies back to Earth to find Sivana trying to attack a metropolitan area and punches him out of his rocket-ship, arresting him. Finally, Billy signs off saying that Sivana is a King without a Kingdom anymore and Captain Marvel is once again the hero of millions of worlds.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel, The Man Without a World!"
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Locations:
- Earth-S
- The United Worlds
- Planet Xixon (Destroyed)
- The "Dead" Planet
Items:
Vehicles:
- Sivana's Rocket-Ship (Destroyed)
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Fights the Hideous Head-Hunter"
Billy Batson reports that there’s been strange attacks on the frontlines where both UN and Communist forces are finding someone is chopping people’s heads off! Naturally, Billy supposes these are Communist lies and calls SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel. The World’s Mightiest Mortal flies his way to the Korean Peninsula and meets with a General Flynn to find out the headless bodies have been showing up in the nearby Yungdo Forest. Captain Marvel spots the glint of a rifle scope and dives to a soldier being shot at and then punches over the gunman. He is shocked to find he’s not a Communist, but Roger Joad, crazed big game hunter who is now hunting the most dangerous game of all — man! Captain Marvel is disgusted and punches him over, but Joad is able to distract him by throwing a bag of human heads at him, which proves he’s been beheading both sides of the conflict just for the thrill of killing. Captain Marvel is angry to lose track of him as Joad escapes into an abandoned coal mine and back into the forest, but is quickly seized by the North Koreans, who agree to let him go if he kills Gen. Flynn for them.
Billy Batson is returned to hide out until things become more apparent and tackles Gen. Flynn when Joad takes a potshot at him in the night and manages to shove him out of the way of the bullet, but then immediately trips and knocks himself out on a rock. The Hideous Head-Hunter seizes him and Billy wakes up, as usual, bound to a chair in gagged, but this time in a disturbing trophy room full of mounted human heads. Joad removes his gag to kill him, since he seems to not care about hearing his screams until he calls SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel loses track of Joad in the mines once more, so he instead steals a North Korean jet engine and dumps gasoline on the ground to create a giant smokestack of the coal mine, forcing a gasping Joad out where the World’s Mightiest Mortal punches him to Gen. Flynn, who arrests him. Billy returns to New York and signs off saying that two heads are better than one and that he’s happy he got away from a headhunter safely!
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Fights the Hideous Head-Hunter"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- General Flynn
Antagonists:
- Roger Joad, the Hideous Head-Hunter
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Korea
- Yungdo Forest
- An Abandoned Coal Mine
Items:
Vehicles:
- A North Korean Fighter Plane (Destroyed)
Synopsis for Capt. Kid: "The Big Night!"
Captain Kid wants to go to the movies, but doesn’t want to be seen doing it without a date, so instead he’s going to go the back way and hops a fence. He quickly slips and falls into a huge puddle, ruining his outfit and staining them with mud, but reasons that they’re not torn, so he can just shake it off on the way there. A black cat meows near him, upsetting a neighbor who throws a shoe at the cat, but knocks Captain Kid in the chest and into the puddle again. Captain Kid angrily throws it back through his opened window panes and a surly man in his pajamas starts coming after him. Captain Kid runs into a garbage can, tearing his pants and getting him a punch to the jaw and a kick in the rear before he’s thrown on to Main Street. All of Captain Kid’s friends spot him and offer he join them in a party, but the defeated and battered Captain Kid declines. He is filled with a deep shame at his own foolish vanity.
Appearing in Capt. Kid: "The Big Night!"
Featured Characters:
- Captain Kid
Supporting Characters:
- A Black Cat
Antagonists:
- A Surly Sleeper
- Pudgy
- Carol
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- Podunk City
Items:
- A Shoe
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Island Wrecker"
At 8:05am, a small Pacific island explodes and Simon Snodde is pleased as he hears distress signals going out for the ensuing tidal waves. Billy Batson soon hears about it at a Station WHIZ Listening Post and calls SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel to fly through a closed window and find a ship, shoving it underwater to save it from an incoming wave, then flies them back to their port on Whale Island, which is populated by whalers. On the radio, the civilians are shocked to hear that someone calling themselves the “Island Wrecker” is responsible and demands $50,000 and he’ll blow up another island if he doesn’t get it at Shark Shoal, five miles north of them. Captain Marvel finds the Island Wrecker there and punches him over, but the Island Wrecker refuses to divest exactly how he goes about wrecking them and won’t be stopped, legging it away in a tiny one-man submarine. As it turns out, the Island Wrecker Simon Snodde is using his tiny submarine to launch tiny torpedos at Whale Island to make the island’s volcano erupt. Captain Marvel evacuates Whale Island quickly to the ship and tows it faster than any motor could as Whale Island erupts again and the Whalers of Whale Island are in despair. Captain Marvel borrows a map from one of the grieving Whalers and just rebuilds the entirety of Whale Island by himself, earning the joy of the population. The Island Wrecker uses a device in his submarine that causes sperm whales to stampede towards the island using electricity. Captain Marvel, however, notes that the correct way to stop a stampede like this is to turn the leader of the pod, then punches the Island Wrecker off his feet and sends him to Whale Island to be arrested.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Island Wrecker"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- The People of Whale Island
Antagonists:
- The Island Wrecker (Capt. Simon Snodde)
Other Characters:
- Sperm Whales
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Pacific Ocean
- Whale Island
Items:
- An Electrical Whale Stampeder
Vehicles:
- A Large Ship
- Capt. Simon Snodde's Island Wrecker Submarine
Trivia
- Despite the cover, the small planetoid Captain Marvel sits on in the story is a lot larger.
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