Captain Marvel Adventures #95 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1949.
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Great Polar Ice Cap!"
Sivana builds a giant dry-ice freezing machine in the Arctic, and has it accumulate an ever-heavier ice pack, until it begins to tilt the Earth out of its proper rotation. Captain Marvel dismantles this, throws the overgrown ice into the Sun and recaptures Sivana.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Great Polar Ice Cap!"
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Other Characters:
- Professor Van Der Steele
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Arctic Ocean
Items:
Vehicles:
- Van Der Steele's Icebreaker
Synopsis for Captain Kid: "Chair-Man of the Day"
Captain Kid has been tasked with taking messages for Mr. Maplewood, a furniture salesman, but argues that he wants to also be a salesman! Mr. Maplewood leaves, offering they discuss it later, but Captain Kid decides he'll impress him by making at least one sale while he's gone. A long-nosed man comes in to look around and Captain Kid tries to physically strong-arm him into buying a chair by directly pushing him into one. The man admits it is a nice chair but he has to be somewhere soon in a few minutes and now he's sunk too far into this chair! Captain Kid tries to lift him out of it by only grabbing a sleeve and pant leg on the left and does pull him free… while ripping off both of them. Captain Kid tries to offer to have it tailored and fixed for him, but the man insists he doesn't have time for that, instead just stealing his clothes and promising he'll beat the tar out of him later if he's late. A lady comes in to buy a chair, but Captain Kid is only in his civvies and shoes, so he pretends one price sign is a running marker and that he's in the ongoing Podunk Marathon. A cop points him the right way, but Captain Kid manages to duck into an alleyway. Unfortunately, the rest of the Marathon is also going that way and he's forced to run another thirteen miles as he's only at the half way point. Captain Kid finishes last, gets punched in the eye by the Long-Nosed Man (who did make the appointment, but was thrown out due to his clearly unfitting clothes.) Later, Mr. Maplewood returns and Captain Kid says he's changed his mind and he's just going to take messages, having put his feet in some water and nursing a black eye in one of the stores' chairs!
Appearing in Captain Kid: "Chair-Man of the Day"
Featured Characters:
- Captain Kid
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- A Long-Nosed Man
Other Characters:
- Mr. Maplewood
- A Lady
- A Cop
Locations:
- Podunk
- Mr. Maplewood's Furniture Store
Items:
- Chairs
- Captain Kid's Green Suit
- A Destroyed Blue Suit
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Man Who Wanted to Be Poor!"
Henry P Blake is an exceptionally busy man who has to take at least five phone calls at once and do his taxes! He finds out he's lost a ton of money on a stock deal and worries that money is more trouble than its worth. He sees a story called The Happy Hobo….. by Jack Joad and decides he'll live a bucolic idyllic life of wandering. He goes to his boss, JQ Gompers and tells him he's quitting and he's becoming “Hank the Hobo” now! The next day, Hank's managed to sell his home and all his belongings except his suit, then just throws away his last few thousand dollars into the street for people to take, causing a mild riot. Billy decides to answer this by calling SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel gathers up all the money and tells Hank to take it back, since he's just going to cause a riot like this, but Hank insists he must be a hobo and tells his tail. He points out he could donate it, so he forks if off to Mammoth Charities and decides to head west.
Taking a train on the rods, Hank wears out his back and then tries to join a hobo campsite, finding that they're suspicious of his “fancy talk” and violently beat him for money he supposedly has, leaving him severely injured. Hank chalks this up to “bad luck” and tries to get some food from a nearby farm. Meanwhile, JQ Gompers goes to Station WHIZ to meet Billy, saying that Blake was literally the only person holding the company together and he needs him back, offering him double his salary. Billy rightly figures that a hobo won't be listening to the radio, so he calls SHAZAM to have Captain Marvel fly out west to find him. Hank is alack to find a farmer expects him to actually do work for food, chopping firewood into planks until he collapses. Captain Marvel figures that Blake did try his best to earn a meal and chops the wood for him in seconds, then tells him his offer over what dinner he's gotten. Hank refuses to take it and leaves, saying he prefers this freedom than to do as any man tells him to, only to be immediately ordered by some nearby lumberers to help him clear up a log jam. Captain Marvel flies in and clears it up again, only for Hank to say he just wants to be left alone, trying to enjoy a dip in a river, only to go over a waterfall! Captain Marvel flies him back and later, Blake is happier to enjoy the monotony and routine of work life again. Later still, he decides to go see this “Jack Joad” who wrote The Happy Hobo and finds he's actually entirely rich and would never go back to being a hobo now! Captain Marvel signs off for us, saying that the lesson was not to envy others as everyone has trouble and joy, but nobody has just one!
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and the Man Who Wanted to Be Poor!"
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Supporting Characters:
- Henry P. Blake, aka "Hank the Hobo"
Antagonists:
- Violent Hobos
Other Characters:
- J.Q. Gompers, Blake's boss
- Jack Joad, Former Hobo and Millionaire Author
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "History Goes Wild"
A near-identical copy of planet Earth is discovered by Professor Jimson, using a special infra-red telescope. Captain Marvel heads into space to stop it from crashing into Earth, but gets turned around in space and in heading home, accidentally ends up on this alternate Earth. It's very similar, but noticeably different. The first expedition to the North Pole is just being made, Julius Caesar tries to invade America with his Roman legions and is stopped by Marvel, and people all use bows and arrows instead of guns despite it being the late 1940's. Realizing he's on the other planet, Marvel shoves it toward a distant star where it will orbit and can live on its own without endangering his Earth.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "History Goes Wild"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Professor Jimson
Antagonists:
- Julius Caesar (twin earth)
Other Characters:
- President George Washington (twin earth)
- Sir Struthers (twin earth)
- Professor Jimson (twin earth)
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Professor Jimson's private observatory
- "Twin" Earth-S
Items:
- Jimson's Special Infra-Red Telescope
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Synopsis for Headline Harry: "Fruitful Assignment"
Headline Harry is goldbricking for six weeks of back pay, but his Editor tells him to go report on a fruit store opening. He immediately begins squeezing all the fruit (claiming he has freedom of the press) and gets into a fruit and pun themed battle with the owner of the fruit store until he scarpers, knocking over most of the remaining fruit, ruining the grand opening and putting the shop back into repairs... while Headline Harry is "in for repair" at the Hospital!
Appearing in Headline Harry: "Fruitful Assignment"
Featured Characters:
- Headline Harry
Supporting Characters:
- The Editor
Antagonists:
- The Market Street Fruit Store's Owner
Other Characters:
Locations:
- The Gazebo Gazette Offices
- The Unopened Market Street Fruit Store
- A Hospital
Items:
- Fruits
- Green Onions
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel's Long Chance"
In the process of shutting down George Welles's slave-driving diamond-mining operation, on the distant volcanic island of Letos, Captain Marvel encounters Ingob, the god of Chance. Ingob is studying the probability of Captain Marvel's being defeated, or even escaped from, so Ingob experimentally instigates a conflict with Cap. After a brief helicoptor chase, Ingob gets Marvel-punched flat, gets back up but panics, dives out of a helicoptor, falls hundreds of feet, and plunges into an enormous whirlpool, and is thought by Captain Marvel to be gone for good. Ingob in fact survives this encounter, returning intact to his heavenly home, the House of Chance, with a new appreciation for the hazards of meddling with Captain Marvel.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel's Long Chance"
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Antagonists:
- George Welles
- Ingob, God of Chance
Other Characters:
- Welles's Slaves
- Ingob's Messengers
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- volcanic island of Lekos
- Lekos Whirlpool
- Ingob's House of Chance
Items:
- Ingob's Magic View-All Screen
Vehicles:
- Welles's Helicopter
Notes
- Ingob, God of Chance, lives in the cloud-borne House of Chance, and has a Magic View-All Screen.
- His name is an anagram of "Bingo"
- The story also refers to Lekos as a "volcanic island," which most islands already tend to be.
- History Goes Wild
- It seems on Earth-S that Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. did manage to confirm his Polar Expedition and attained the rank of a full Admiral, neither of which Rear Admiral Peary did in normal history. His book seems to have also released under a less lofty title than it did in the real world of The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club
- Also appearing in this issue of Captain Marvel Adventures were:
- Dopey Danny Dee: "Open Head"
- Tightwad Tad: "Just Plain Bill"
- Interplanetary Census (text story, featuring Jon Jarl), by Otto Binder
Trivia
- Despite clearly being a helicopter (or "auto-gyro,") they refer to George Welles's aircraft as a "plane" repeatedly.
See Also
- Cover gallery for the Captain Marvel Adventures series
- Images from Captain Marvel Adventures Vol 1 95