Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)/Quotes

The Weatherman has been doing a wonderful job for thousands of years, yet all we do is complain about his weather --- which keeps us alive! Let's tell him we're sorry!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Whew! A house with chess gadgets … a demented old man who's literally crazy about the game … and an apparently insane Black King monster … all in Glendale!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

A horrible death. But no worse than he deserved! The statues of the bankers will have to be melted so the bodies can be buried again!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Sivana Jr! You're not dead at all!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

So this is the answer! Guess he didn't see me fly the people out! I'll make him talk now! Hey, no voices! But naturally not! Air carries sound! There's no sound in a vacuum such as this! But the vacuum seems to include only the house! I'll kick him over to where there's air!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

None of our planes are aloft yet and danger coming! I wish Captain Marvel Senior were here. Also Minute Man, and the whole GANG!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

First, I leave Earth! I'll pile on speed! When I exceed the speed of light, I will be cast into the fourth dimension, according to the laws of space and time!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Gosh I'm not lost. I just got over from Whiz Comics. Billy Batson sent me over here to Master Comics.

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Obviously you two don't know that much about me!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Who is he? You know, folks, I have an idea his mission in life is to jinx the "wrong" people at the "right" time! Figure it out for yourself...

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Captain Marvel! Mary! Y-you don't trust me. You th-think I'm... I'm lying! Well, if that's the way you feel about it... Goodbye! We're through! Do you hear me? Through!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Phew, what a day. I've rescued 387 people from flying away -- are you sure that's all the pills there were?

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Jordan is an architect. He designed some buildings right here in Washington. I'll bet he's taken Burton to one of them! Let's see... So far no luck! This is the last building I can think of which Jordan designed, the Triangle Building! A helicopter! So that's his secret! And in the back a gas releasing device! That's where the fog came from!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

So that's it! "Slug" Sarga is using the raised destroyer for crime! With a powerful warship like this he can do almost anything! I'd better see about the jail-break first!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Africa ahoy! This Lost Sphinx must be in the Center of the Sahara, which even today is hardly explored! The Lost Sphinx! Not a sound! Silent as the grave! Maybe Professor Webb found it, then died here!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Poor Ali! He'll be heartbroken if Abdul the Merchant marries Fatima! I don't know exactly how I can help, but I'll try!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Phantom Phil is somewhere in this building, that much I know! He doesn't dare leave this building because the police would spot him, outside! So all I have to figure out is where I can run into him again!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Half-way down! That sounds like somebody in a submarine! I'll look into that. Holy Moley! A small two-man sub! Could this be Subby Sloan, the notorious crook, who operates with a submarine?

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

If I'm going to solve this case, I'll have to find out more about everyone here. Scarhand could be disguised as Jo-Jo or any of the other men. The way the murders were committed indicates that it had to be one of the performers. The only one he can't be is the Bearded Lady! Maybe she'll help me! I think Freddy would attract less attention around here -- so.... CAPTAIN MARVEL!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

'That's funny! Nobody answers! Probably no one's home! I can't leave the key out here or someone might walk in! This door has an automatic lock! I'll leave the key inside and close the door behind me when I leave! HEY! What's this? There is somebody home!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

'What a boner I pulled! I never thought they'd leave the back way! It looks as though this is the end of the money and me! Just a second! That jack gives me an idea! If I can only hook this gag on it -- CAPTAIN MARVEL!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Hmm... I faintly recognize the dialect! Let me think -- ah -- I have it! It's a dialect of Ancient Mayan! With a little concentration, I can understand him, and speak it, too! I understand you! You just said you're from the South! But what country?"

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Now wonder he came to the surface! He's going to attack that merchant ship! You've certainly got a nasty disposition! As soon as I quiet you down, I'll listen to your side of the story! Oh, I see! You're King of the Seas hereabouts! And you've been attacking ships because they challenged your reign!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

'Hey! He's loosening the wheel on that car! It'll go off the tracks and Babs is in there!'

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

You've spoiled the picnic and have proven you're a bad sport! We'll have to take a vote to see what the gang decides to do with you!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

We'll talk about that later! Right now, I hope the hotel won't mind my opening the wall safe this way, but I don't know the combination! I want you to take this money down to the police station and have the fingerprints checked!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Holy Moley! My new cap's gone! I don't see it anywhere! And I can't afford to buy another one! Gosh, that was an unlucky break for me!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I hear a noise! Like the gurgling of water below deck! I'd better take a look!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I always wanted to see what one of these new streamlined ships looked like! I'll start by looking at the cabins! Hey... Who's that? I thought the Captain said everybody was on deck! Why, it's Mr. Merriweather... and he's dead!''

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I'll go to Phil's Barber Shop and have the job done right away! A trim, Phil! And do a nice, neat job! It seems my public thinks I'm sloppy in appearance!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Hit my friend with a pistol, will you? I'll make you think you got slugged with a cannon!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Remember -- if you're hit with the flour sock you must drop out of the fight! The class that has most men left at the end, wins!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Holy Moley! This may give me the answer! If every machine is electronically attuned to the directory, it will know the whereabouts of each inhabitant! If I write the name of Indestructible Man... I get a picture of where he is! At the City Jail!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

'Holy Moley! What is this? That creature was made of metal!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I'm glad to know you recognize me! We can dispense with the formalities and get right down to business! There are some questions I want you to answer!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

5,000 years ago, these extinct people sent a disintegrating ray to my world to destroy it! I want to find out why! Look! This was once a Giant Ray Machine!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

His simple life was full of terror in a world that he never could understand any more than modern man could have understood his... perhaps, it's better this way!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

So you've been running an interplanetary slave trade! We're going to see the fellow who's been buying your slaves! He's as guilty as you are...

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Excuse me while I take a bath... in nitric acid! Wonder if any that bullet-proof plastic is left! I'll scrub hard! Hmmm! Funny thing! The bullets still bounce!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I advise you not to tell the Maria Elena's owners that story about a gigantic Sky Hawk frightening you away from your ship, Captain!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

And there's Bucephalus! Your paint job didn't stand up in water! That's all the evidence I'll need to convict you as horse thieves!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Hmmm! Now I'm sure something's wrong. Carkle really hates animals! No man with his dislike of animals could ever gain any affection from them! I'll let Freddy follow him home! Then he won't suspect he's been followed!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I can look right through this open window! She's pouring the prescription into that big pot! I wonder what she has in mind?

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I don't mind the dark! I'm just glad I got here in time to find you alive. Don't smoke your Meerschaum, Dr. Hall!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I was chosen to represent newsboys on a free visit to the Great Palomar Telescope! Gosh, this'll be the thrill of a lifetime!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Some years ago I used reward-money from catching crooks to build this place! I caught every criminal here! Now they're all going straight, making an honest living!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

It's all over! The convulsions started by your giant hammer have rocked the Earth to its foundations! Its reverting to the way things were millions of years ago! Poor fellow! The shock unhinged his mind! I can't go back! I'll just keep going up... and up.... and

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I was too late to stop you from blowing up the statue, but I'm not too late to stop you two crooks! These two men are impostors! They stole the uniforms they're wearing from Colonel Frazier's house!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Just remember! All people, anywhere, have a responsibility towards all other people! In carrying on your war, you endangered Earth... and yourselves! Don't forget this ever... that war does not pay!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I don't know! I'm afraid that if you show up, you'll only succeed in driving other people crazy! No sane person could believe you really exist!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Perhaps its weight sank it right into the soft ocean bed! Well. We'll soon find out! Still no sign of it! This doesn't make sense! No one would have walked away with a massive thing like the Statue of Liberty! There's something really peculiar going on which I ought to report to the police!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

They're cunning! Nobody can prove what they are! But I'm going to try the next one.... Dr. J.T. Vance! I'll try different tactics here! Doctor, I know who you are! And I'm going to x-ray your insides!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

That was no fish Freddy hooked... it's one of the Booth Brothers! That stone attached to his body proves one thing... He was murdered! I'm going to leave his body here on shore while I visit the tool shop to investigate further! If I'm going to ask questions I'd be less likely to arouse suspicion as Freddy Freeman, so..... CAPTAIN MARVEL!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

There he goes -- the Indian Prince who owns the largest diamond in the world - the fabulous Shindu Jewel! He's brought it to the United States to be cut! And these electrically charged wires around his house make sure nobody tries to steal it! That goes for you, too, Sivana, Jr.! I know just what you're thinking!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Whoever set it up did his best to conceal it, but I can see it ends somewhere in the closet! Huh... there's nothing here but a record player! Maybe Amos didn't want his uncle to know of this hobby.... Afraid he might think it frivolous or something! Maybe he likes to record jazz music and he was afraid his uncle would disapprove! I'll soon find out why he hid everything in the closet!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

What a fool I was! After I saw what was in store I never should have permitted myself to be taken unaware! But there's no use berating myself... the thing to do is get free... but how?

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Holy Moley! This is an original program of the day that Abraham Lincoln made his Gettysburg Address! It looks new, too! Jeremy Thremm must have dropped it out of his pocket. But how did he get it? Does this explain where he went during that mysterious disappearance? I'd better keep an eye on Jeremy Thremm!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Gentleman, you've all made a big mistake or you wouldn't be serving time! That doesn't mean you can't rectify your ways! You've all learned that you can't beat the law! There's only one road to travel if you're going to get anywhere... and that's the straight and narrow! For your own sake, I advise you... Go straight!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I was right! Patney did take the Crown! I should bring it back to the Professor, but I don't think Patney is working alone! If I leave the Crown here, maybe I can catch his partner too!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Holy Moley! A slight updraft righted the plane and it's flying off safely! But it certainly is a coincidence that you were here to turn off that water! Whew! What amazing coincidences! First, I couldn't say CAPTAIN MARVEL to save the plane! Then the doomed plane was saved anyway! This is the day of the queerest coincidences for me!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Holy Moley! And there's one of the giant Ants now, attacking us! What a horrible monster! An Ant as big as a man! I'll kill it...

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I don't get it! In each of these robberies, the victims positively identified Sivana, Jr. as the crook! But I know it's not he! He's in jail or..... Someone made up like him is in jail! Why didn't I think of that before?

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Holy Moley! The Silicon Monsters just melted away - like sand! Water was their deadliest enemy! The only weapon that could destroy them!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

And I'll go for a doctor! I'd like to have the prisoner given a thorough examination to find out how he could walk through electrically-charged wires and in front of a train without being hurt!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

By making dogs the rulers, you'd have become King of the World! That's your motive for starting this revolt!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I just wonder... I was fishing over at the creek in Gainesville yesterday and I saw two strangers near the deserted shed house! They might've been just a pair of hobos, but on the other hand... It won't do any harm to look into it! CAPTAIN MARVEL!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

The nations of the world seem to be getting along better these days! Was Sivana, Jr. the one who kept stirring up trouble? The world is a happier place without Sivana, Jr. around! People don't seem as worried and nervous as they used to be! Yes sirree! I can't be sorry that Sivana, Jr. is no longer among the living!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I'm afraid he's right! Since I'm only as fast as Mercury, we'd stay just as far apart if this chase went on for the rest of our lives!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Far from it, Red! These people are much further advanced in knowledge of electricity than we are today! He was able to de-materialize an entire city by dissolving its electrical protons! Only for one day ever thousand years, when the geyser erupts again, does the city appear! To its inhabitants a thousand years is no more than a day!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

In a case like this, this seems to be the only solution! Now I'll haul you off to jail! Since he's only partly human, I don't know what the authorities are going to do about him! I do know, they'll mete out the right kind of justice!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

The Daily Blfysk? But there's no such mggttiu!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I never saw this building before! Maybe I can get the owners to take a subscription to my paper! Hello! Anyone in?

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Never you mind, Jasper! Even if they don't like you, I do! Lord Highsniff thinks he's terrific because he runs so fast! I'll bet you could run just as fast, if you wanted to!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

You were about to say - and crippled! I can tread water without my crutch! Professor, you and the Captain are needed here to man the life-line, and there's nobody else to do the diving!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Holy Moley! That's Earth back there! The train is traveling through space! It's absolutely incredible! The train is wrapped up in this cylinder like a cocoon and traveling at nearly the speed of light! I've got to stop it!''

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

This town needs a system of radio police cars! In that way, when a call for help is phoned in here, you would have a man at a microphone call the nearest police car to rush to the scene of the crime!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

The flying saucers aren't machines at all! I could swear they're alive! I've got the most peculiar feeling -- as if though somebody were watching me! It's silly, of course! I suppose it's just a reaction from my encounter with that peculiar flying saucer! CAPTAIN MARVEL!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

Golly! All the best military men in the country have their headquarters here! From the Pentagon, orders go out to troops in Korea and all over the world!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

I've checked up on you and found that you're just a lazy, good-for-nothing! You don't have a grandmother or children! I will not help you get that prize money! Perhaps that will teach you not to lie in the future!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

It's a map of North Korea with symbols all over it! But what does it mean? It may mean absolutely nothing... but then again it may be very important! There's only one way to find out... and that's to take it to the War Department... ...CAPTAIN MARVEL!''

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)

He must be one of the legendary dead I've read about! It's useless to chase him because it's impossible to grab him! The thing to do is found out where he hides out... and then wait for the Sun to come up!

--Frederick Freeman (Earth-S)