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Captain Marvel Adventures #37 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1944.
Synopsis for "The Bubble Battle in Cincinnati!"
In Cincinnati, Grampa Wills, an addled old kook, brews up a batch of bubble-blowing soap which produces long-lasting, temporarily unbreakable, shrapnel-scattering bubbles, which quickly become a widespread public safety problem. Captain Marvel deals with some bubble-related problems, then Willis runs out of bubble soap, and can't remember the recipe for making any more of it.
Appearing in "The Bubble Battle in Cincinnati!"
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- Grampa Willis
- Johnny Vander Meer
- Neighborhood boys
- WLW Sound Engineer
- Cincinnati Reds
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- Earth-S
- Ohio
- Cincinnati
- Crosley Square
- Station WLW
- Crosley Field
- Union Terminal
- Crosley Square
- Cincinnati
- Ohio
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- Tyler Davidson Fountain
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Synopsis for "The Visitors from Space!"
A pair of aliens go around collecting artifacts from Earth. Captain Marvel's aided by Mary in chasing them down. After finding out the reason the heroes are trying to catch them is that Earth's such a barbaric planet it still has concepts like "theft", the aliens pay for everything they took with gold, which is a cheap commodity on their planet.
Appearing in "The Visitors from Space!"
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Synopsis for "Trouble with Mr. Double!"
While in a hat store, Billy Batson runs into Ike and Mike Double, a pair of conjoined twins who are two heads on one body. The hot-tempered Mike slaps Billy after he reminds them of their hated history working in a freak show. He changes to Captain Marvel and knocks out Ike with a counter-slap, but Mr. Double walks out vowing to get even.
The calmer Ike convinces Mike to try to find honest work again, but after being turned away by an angry employment agent and hearing Billy making insensitive remarks about how they belong back in a freak show on his broadcast, even Ike is eager to settle the score. They kidnap Billy, but leave to try to mug someone with them being out of money.
Billy transforms and interrupts the two in the middle of their robbery. He realizes they aren't evil, just bitter because they can't find honest work with their condition. He gets them a job working the information desk at a busy train station, where they can handle twice as many customers as a normal man.
Appearing in "Trouble with Mr. Double!"
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Synopsis for "The Monster Society of Evil, Chap.16: Earth Must Die!"
Sir Cherrypit emerges mostly unscathed from the rubble of his castle, and is told by Captain Marvel to go to the nearest town and bring workers to build something to cork the volcano he's plugging with his posterior. Once the opening is safely sealed, Marvel flies off to track down Mr. Mind and his henchman Jeepers, who enter a network of caverns where Jeepers' people once lived, until they were killed in some unspecified disaster.
Captain Marvel enters the caves searching for his enemies, and is surprised to find an underground city of dwarves, dressed like pilgrims. Who try to shoot him on sight. He changes back to Billy, and they cease fire when they see a child. They explain they're the Sub-Americans, whose ancestors entered the caves back in colonial times and decided to stay. They have their own radio sets and have been following war coverage. They've also been helping to pump deep oil reservoirs up for surface people to access them more easily.
Their most grandiose plan, however, was filling a cavern with explosives, in order to literally blow Earth in half. Separating the east and west hemispheres in case it became clear the Axis was about to occupy the Americas. As their leader exclaims, "Half an Earth saved would be better than none!"
Mr. Mind has overhead this, and plans to set off the explosives. Not because of anything to do with Axis invasion, as it's clear the Axis Powers are on their last legs, but to deny the United Nations their dream of "hemispheric cooperation." He lights the giant fuse, and a captured Billy transforms and punches out Jeepers before flying to catch the spark. He snuffs it before it can set off a blast, but then he finds lava pouring into the cavern with the explosives.
Appearing in "The Monster Society of Evil, Chap.16: Earth Must Die!"
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See Also
- Cover gallery for the Captain Marvel Adventures series
- Images from Captain Marvel Adventures Vol 1 37
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