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"Capt. Marvel's Funeral": Draka, practicioner of the art of Zogo, uses his power to hypnotize Sterling Morris into leaving everything to Draka in his will, then jumping out a window. Captain Marvel saves him, then comes after Draka. The villain uses his powers to split Captain Marvel's spirit fr

Captain Marvel Adventures #88 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1948.

Synopsis for "Capt. Marvel's Funeral"

Draka, practicioner of the art of Zogo, uses his power to hypnotize Sterling Morris into leaving everything to Draka in his will, then jumping out a window. Captain Marvel saves him, then comes after Draka. The villain uses his powers to split Captain Marvel's spirit from his body, making him appear dead. Marvel's astral form manages to call Morris' attention to a page in a book that describes the magic word that can break the spell. Morris speaks it over Marvel's body, restoring him to normal. The hero chases Draka down and gives him a blow to the head that makes Draka forget all about his magical powers.

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Synopsis for Captain Kid: "Champion of Champions"

Captain Kid tells his friends about a time he used super-strength to save Captain Marvel from imprisonment in a castle and fought a tribe of monsters who'd captured the hero. He wins a prize for telling the tallest tale with this story.

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Synopsis for "Billy Batson's Boyhood"


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Synopsis for "Captain Marvel Vs. the World's Wildest Man"

A wild man is brought back from the jungle and put on display, but Billy Batson protests that he's still a human and shouldn't be treated like a dumb animal in a cage. Since Jungo speaks no human language, however, as Captain Marvel he heads off to get Mr. Tawny to talk to Jungo in the language of animals. Meanwhile, Jungo escapes his cage and goes on a rampage. Mr. Tawny does talk to him in the words of the wild and extols the virtues of being civilized, but the wild man asserts that he's stronger and will assert his dominance over civilized men. Captain Marvel quickly beats this idea out of him, and soon Jungo's learning the ways of modern civilization.

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Synopsis for "The Radio Plague"

Sivana has a dream about being king of the world after replacing the humans who've rejected him with aliens, and mummifying Billy Batson as a trophy of his conquest. When he wakes up, he comes up with a plan to make the dream a reality.

Soon a town's wiped out by a strange plague. Captain Marvel flies to the town to investigate, and changes back to Billy because the sickness won't hurt his indestructible form. Sivana takes this opportunity to jump out and club Billy on the head, having waited for Marvel to make himself vulnerable. Sivana reveals he's come up with a fantastic device that can broadcast sickness over radio waves, and plans to use that to wipe out humanity to make room for a race of aliens he's already invited to inhabit the planet and rule over. The convulsions from the influenza shake Billy's gag off. He transforms and destroys the machine. Having seen Sivana isn't the powerful figure he passed himself of as, the aliens agree to leave peacefully.

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