Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1945.
Synopsis for "Captain Marvel In St. Paul, Minnesota"
Billy Batson visits St. Paul, but is extremely puzzled when a newsboy sells him a paper depicting Captain Marvel visiting famous sights around town...which Billy knows nothing about! As Marvel, he visits the photographic agency that took the pictures. The photographer, Slick Focus, admits he did it by doctoring stock images of Captain Marvel onto stock images of local buildings. This gets Slick fired by his boss for such unscrupulous reporting. Unknown to them, one of Slick's coworkers has confided in him he's ground a photographic lens in a queer way, so that it actually cantake pictures of things that haven't happened yet. Coming up with a dastardly plan, Slick uses the camera to determine where Captain Marvel, along with local official and most of St. Paul's police, will be at the Super Speedway at 5 PM. He proposes to gang boss Leadpipe Malone they take advantage of this absence of law enforcement to rob the First National Bank. However, he failed to look at the negatives just after that, which show Captain Marvel speeding to the bank and foiling the robbery. In trying to escape, Slick crashes his car and shatters the future-exposing camera.
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Synopsis for "The World of If"
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Synopsis for "The Monster Society of Evil, Chapter 21: The Unholy Hydra"
Headlines proclaim Mr. Mind's demise, but Captain Marvel accidentally wrecked the printing press before he was smashed. Safe in a secret lab, the evil worm brings a monster to life to carry out a new plan. When it turns out to be a simple-minded fool, he beheads it. To his surprise, this causes the original head to immediately grow back along with a second head, that of an angry dog. Mr. Mind compares this to the hydra of ancient Greek myth. He takes his monster out to steal a secret weapon invented by a nearby scientist.
In the street, they encounter Billy Batson, who transforms and attacks Mr. Mind's new monster. Punching off the dog head causes it to grow back along with a wolf's head. Slipping away from Marvel, they infiltrate the scientist's house, but the monster's idiotic head pushes an alarm button that causes police to storm the house. One of them shoots off a head and a dragon's head joins the others. Tailing Mr. Mind and the hydra into a butcher's shop, Captain Marvel throws a side of beef at it. The hydra's multiple heads all start fighting over the meat, and end up tearing themselves to pieces. Marvel's theory was correct: if the monster could recover from even his attacks, the only thing could destroy it was itself.
He changes back to Billy to hand Mr. Mind over the authorities, but suddenly a criminal climbs in through the window and coldcocks Billy.
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Synopsis for "The Plot Against Christmas"
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