Captain Marvel Adventures #25 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1943.
Synopsis for "Doom in Detroit"
Billy Batson visits Detroit and gets invited to participate in the play-by-play at a Tigers game. Suddenly a ball pops, showering the field with papers reading "Doom to Detroit". Billy transforms to investigate, and overhears Nazi saboteur Herr Knudlezupe and his gang switching a basket of balls with bombs. He swiftly grabs a bat and knocks the ball out of the park, making it explode without harm. After he reveals the deadly plot that almost ended in disaster, Marvel's told by the mayor that most of the spectators at the game were plant workers, and the Nazi plot must be to cripple the city's industrial production, vital to the war effort.
Marvel gets a job at a plant at Dearborn to go undercover looking for Nazi spies. He finds them when he overhears a group of men voicing their disgust at the music mocking Hitler played during the crew's lunch hour. Following them into the workshop, Marvel catches Knudlezupe and his men trying to sabotage the machinery to cause a catastrophic explosion. He manages to stop them and arrest them before they can succeed in their nefarious plan.
Appearing in "Doom in Detroit"
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Synopsis for "The Mad Hermit"
Bill returns from a remote assignment to hear Sterling Morris went on a hunting trip to a remote forest and never returned. Billy and Steamboat head to the same forest to look for him, warned along the way by a pump jockey of the mighty hermit who lives in those woods, and kills people who enter his domain. The pair find themselves in a graveyard. The hermit then appears and knocks Billy unconscious with a slap before taking them to his cave, where Morris is indeed being held. They find out the man is actually a doctor who came to live in the woods to escape the cruelty of men; the graveyard was for animals killed by hunters. Morris protests he isn't a hunter, he's a nature photographer. He was going to shoot wildlife with a camera. The hermit then realizes these men aren't cruel, like the ones who live up in a treehouse and shoot at animals for fun. Investigating, they find out he's talking about Axis spies, who Captain Marvel captures by uprooting the entire tree. Marvel then convinces the hermit mankind needs all the help it can get to fight such evil, and the hermit returns to civilization and joins the army.
Appearing in "The Mad Hermit"
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- Mad Hermit (Dr. Carmen) (Single appearance)
- Axis Agents
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- Earth-S
- The Black Forest
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Synopsis for "Too Many Marvels"
While walking down the street on a hot day, Steamboat suddenly finds himself arrested after a crook shoves a roll of fake bills into his hand. Billy changes to Captain Marvel and chases after the real crook. At the hideout he oversees the gang's boss, Wooden Nickols, chastising their counterfeiter for making making money that's too much like real bills. The man explains he did so not with a printing press but a machine that creates an actual physical duplicate of anything put inside it, even living things. So the money is exactly the same as the money it was copied from. Cap enters and starts throwing punches, but is shoved into the machine to give the gang a chance to escape. Out pop six identical Captain Marvels, who all start arguing over who's real and who's a copy. By the time they realize they're all equal World's Mightiest Mortals (they even change back into identical Billy Batsons) and should be working together to catch Wooden Nickols, he's long gone. After these hijinks end, the squadron of Captain Marvels easily capture Nickols' gang. They enter the duplicating machine and only one Marvel comes out. Who turns the duplicating machine to safer use by donating it as scrap metal to the war effort.
Appearing in "Too Many Marvels"
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- Steamboat
- Coggles
- Six Captain Marvel Duplicates
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- Wooden Nickols (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 4: Glaciers Over America"
Captain Marvel arrives at an Alaskan military camp just in time to riddle an encroaching glacier with holes and make it collapse before it can do any serious damage. However it's only a temporary respite, as dropping temperatures and snowstorms start to cover all of America. Captain Marvel spots Dr. Sivana, who's behind the temperatures, and chases him back to his hideout. The entrance is too small for Marvel, who changes to Billy to crawl in.
Inside he discovers the Pole Changer machine Sivana's using to realign Earth's axis so that America will be caught in the colder climates. Marvel wrecks the device, but Sivana escapes when he tells Marvel that things are stuck the way they are and catching him won't do any good. Instead, Marvel rebuilds the device and send it running the other way to restore things to normal.
When Billy crawls back out, Sivana tricks him into walking under a tub of water that instantly freezes into a block of solid ice around the boy newscaster.
Appearing in "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 4: Glaciers Over America"
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- Monster Society of Evil
- Dr. Sivana
- Mister Mind (Voice only)
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- Black pearls
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