Captain Marvel Adventures #148 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1953.
Synopsis for "Sivana Saves Captain Marvel"
A strange ray reduces Billy's neighborhood grocer to a pile of dust, and Captain Marvel soon discovers someone's been turning people into talking bugs with another strange ray. The hero goes after a rocketship being piloted by his old foe Sivana, who pretends to surrender. It's only to give him the chance to shove a gadget into the hero's mouth that makes his next breath sound like "Shazam," summoning his lightning and turning him back into powerless Billy. Sivana clubs him with a wrench, and puts the boy into a coffin that he leaves in orbit for all time.
As soon as he gets back to Earth, Sivana demands the world surrender or he'll turn everyone into bugs. To his frustration, Sivana's immediately told it doesn't matter, because some other villain has a terrible ray that can turn anyone, anywhere into dust. The world's finished. The owners of that dust ray, the Azpaks, then confront Sivana. They're taking over the world, and because his scientific brilliance enables him to take on the demigod Captain Marvel, he's at the top of their hit list. Sivana escapes with a smoke bomb hidden in a false tooth, and then, to his great frustration and embarrassment, retrieves Billy to team up with Captain Marvel so he'll be powerful enough to take on the Azpaks. Feelings which only get worse when Captain Marvel thanks Sivana while taking him to jail after they defeat the other villains.
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- Doctor Sivana
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- United Nations representatives
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Synopsis for "The Message from Across the Seas!"
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- Captain Kid
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Synopsis for "Captain Marvel Battles the World"
The planet Earth gets annoyed with the people living on it taking it for granted and digging holes into its sides with oil drills, and unleashes numerous natural disasters that Captain Marvel barely manages to avert. The planet feels the fear of death when, after all his attempts to bedevil humanity, a comet almost strikes him, but Captain Marvel averts that disaster too. The moon eventually teaches Earth some perspective, that it ought to be glad to be a planet teeming with life, unlike the cold, airless surface of the moon.
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Synopsis for "The Impossible Ghost"
Billy heads over to the home of his neighbor Dexter Knox to try to learn something interesting to report for an upcoming broadcast. He's greeted by Mr. Two, a robot assistant Dexter built. A strange ghost that wails in mathematical symbols suddenly appears and hurls Mr. Two at them, which shatters against Captain Marvel's body. After several more dangerous events come from this bizarre ghost, Marvel figures out who it really is: the ghost of Mr. One, Dexter's first attempt at a robot assistant, who had a defective mechanical brain and went wild. Dexter destroyed him and buried the body under his lab. Marvel exhumes the robotic remains, flies them to the moon and buries them there, where the electronic ghost can do no harm.
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- Ghost of Mr. One
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Notes
- "Sivana Saves Capt. Marvel" was reprinted in Shazam! #24.
- "Captain Marvel Battles the World" was reprinted in Limited Collectors' Edition #C-35, Shazam!: The Greatest Stories Ever Told and Shazam!: A Celebration of 75 Years.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Marvel Family Recommended Reading
- Whiz Comics (Volume 1)
- Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1)
- Captain Marvel, Jr. (Volume 1)
- Mary Marvel (Volume 1)
- Master Comics (Volume 1)
- Wow Comics (Volume 1)
- The Marvel Family (Volume 1)
- Hoppy the Marvel Bunny (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam!: The New Beginning (Volume 1)
- The Power of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder (Volume 1)
- Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil (Volume 1)
- The Trials of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 2)
- Shazam! (Volume 3)
- Shazam! (Volume 4)
- The New Champion of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 5)