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"Knighthood Flowers Again": While visiting Portland, Billy and mayor R. Earl Riley go to visit local eccentric Richard Chickenhart. They hope to convince him to donate some of his medieval armor collection as scrap iron for the war effort. Rival collector Bart Black tries to buy Chickenhart's co

Captain Marvel Adventures #29 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1943.

Synopsis for "Knighthood Flowers Again"

While visiting Portland, Billy and mayor R. Earl Riley go to visit local eccentric Richard Chickenhart. They hope to convince him to donate some of his medieval armor collection as scrap iron for the war effort. Rival collector Bart Black tries to buy Chickenhart's collection, and when he's refused, upends a suit on Chickenhart that conks him on the head and makes him think he must be a real knight, to live in a place with so much armor and weaponry. By having Billy pretend to be his squire, eventually they manage to get the armor to a local sports field where local men have a mock battle to batter the armor up before handing it over to the iron collection. Captain Marvel even socks Bart Black, distraught at the destruction of so many pieces of history, knocking the meanness out of Black.

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  • Bart Black
  • Chickenhart

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Synopsis for "The Reform of Roughneck Ryan"


Appearing in "The Reform of Roughneck Ryan"

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  • Captain Marvel Club

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  • Roughneck Ryan
  • Miggs Minalli
    • his boss

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  • Judge Keeler
  • Officer Murphy
  • Mister Smith

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Synopsis for "The Beautiful Baby Contest"


Appearing in "The Beautiful Baby Contest"

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  • Bull Baxter
    • his men
    • Fifi
  • A bull

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Synopsis for "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 8: Battle at the China Wall"

Mr. Mind's brigade of mutant animals prove to be formidable foes, buffeting and battering Captain Marvel with their awesome strength. Soon Cap manages to gain the upper hand and tears them apart, forcing Mr. Mind to flee on the back of his dragon. He flies to Japanese-occupied China and enlists the aid of a trio of mad scientists--Dr.'s Hashi, Smashi and Peeyu--in his newest evil scheme.

Captain Marvel contacts Station WHIZ for any news about where Mr. Mind might have disappeared to, and the only unusual news lately is that the Chinese have reported seeing a legendary dragon flying overhead, which Marvel deduces was a creation of Mr. Mind's. He quickly flies to a Chinese military camp, and as Billy Batson is taken on a tour of the Great Wall. He fails to notice anything suspicious about three "coolies" who are really Mr. Mind's new aides. They ambush Billy and leave him tied up as they connect electricity to wires they've run along the length of the wall. The current causes the wall to levitate off the ground, but Billy's gag burns off and he manages to say the magic word before he's electrocuted.

The Japanese forces use the wall's levitation as a chance to charge and invade China while the local soldiers are held at bay by their own advancing monument. Captain Marvel smashes a way through, allowing them to counterattack the Japanese. He then flies to where the evil scientists are controlling things, and punches them into electric current, apparently killing them.

Billy reports on the Japanese army's failed attack, but doesn't notice Mr. Mind suddenly swinging in and wrapping him up in silken cord. The evil worm announces no-one ever visits the part of the wall where Billy's broadcasting, and leaves him to die of starvation.

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  • There are three other short stories in this issue: Little Sneezer, Sergeant Sandy and Captain Kidd

Trivia

  • Mr. Mind traps Billy Batson by wrapping him in silk threads created from his own body.


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