This is Johnny Peril again -- and I might as well admit that the story I've got for you -- I don't even believe myself ... But anyway ... 
Comic Cavalcade #25 is an issue of the series Comic Cavalcade (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1948.
Synopsis for Wonder Woman: "Hatred of Badra"
Wonder Woman fights Badra.
Appearing in Wonder Woman: "Hatred of Badra"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Hatorians
- Queen Badra
- Kasha
- Violet
- Queen Badra
Other Characters:
- General Darnell
- Queen Wickeda (Badra's mother) (Dies)
Locations:
- Earth-Two Universe
- Paradise Island
- Washington, D.C.
- Hator (planet) (Destroyed)
Items:
- Lasso of Truth
- Bracelets of Submission
- Magic Sphere
- Wonder Woman's Tiara
- Badra's Sting-Ray
- Venus Girdle of Love (Mentioned only)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Johnny Peril Tells Just a Story: "The Talking Dog"
Johnny Peril meets Donald Smith, who has been rescued from his own suicide, and later from some racketeers, by a talking dog.
Appearing in Johnny Peril Tells Just a Story: "The Talking Dog"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Aces Jordan, racketeer
- his gang: Mendozo, Spike, others
Other Characters:
- Donald Smith (Tries suicide)
- Bernie, talking St. Bernard dog
- Santini, ventriloquist
- Trixie, Santini's dog
- Sam Brandon, producer
- Officer Larson
Locations:
- New York City
- Waterlee Bridge
- Smith's apartment
- Joe's Diner, on 78th St.
Synopsis for Green Lantern: "The Roof of the World"
After Green Lantern mysteriously loses the power of flight three times in a week, Doiby brings him to a psychologist, who declares GL has a crippling fear of heights. Little does he know the psychologist is actually his old enemy the Sky Pirate in disguise. Not long after this, a waitress named Betty Barnes meets with a man named Paxton, who had climbed Mt. Everest with her father. Mr. Barnes fell to his doom when the precipice he stood on collapsed, but in the process Paxton noticed the shorn rock floating away and realized they'd discovered a type of stone that could defy gravity! Suddenly the Sky Pirate swings in and abducts Paxton, after managing to delay Green Lantern. However the hero sees a message Paxton managed to scrawl telling him to go to a certain room in a certain building where he find a giant fan, which GL concludes the Sky Pirate used to make it seem like he was losing his ability to fly, in order to make him afraid of taking to the air. Well, it had worked ... once.
The heroic duo fly with Betty to Mt. Everest, where they catch the Sky Pirate in the act of unearthing the flying rock. A battle ensues but the heroes are defeated after Green Lantern is clubbed on the head with a wooden gun butt. To make sure no bodies are found, the Sky Pirate ties his captives to a piece of the floating rock, and sends them to suffocate in the upper atmosphere. Green Lantern uses his ring to fashion a pulley tied to their ropes and pull them back down. He then pursues the Sky Pirate to the villain's old hideout, and knocks him unconscious. Betty becomes wealthy from selling her miraculous floating rock to science.
Appearing in Green Lantern: "The Roof of the World"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Sky Pirate, as "Dr. Ticky"
Other Characters:
- Dr. Ticky, the real one (Single appearance)
- Betty Barnes (Single appearance)
- Paxton (Single appearance)
- Ned Barnes (Dies in flashback)
Locations:
Items:
- Green Lantern Ring
- Sky Pirate's double-barrel flintlock
- Barnes' Antigravity Mineral
Vehicles:
- Sky Pirate's Skyship
Synopsis for Cotton-Top Katie: "Perfessor's Tuba"
The Perfessor takes tuba lessons, and Katie tries to take Perfessor's tuba, mayhem ensues, with Perfessor ending up stuffed under the overturned tuba.
Appearing in Cotton-Top Katie: "Perfessor's Tuba"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Perfessor
Items:
- Perfessor's Tuba
Synopsis for Hop Harrigan: "The Mystery of Airport Inn"
Appearing in Hop Harrigan: "The Mystery of Airport Inn"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Joe Marconi, fake FBI agent (Dies)
- Mike, mechanic
- Johnny Jingle, pianist (Dies)
Locations:
- Texas
- Airport, near Galveston
- Airport Inn, near Airport
Items:
- briefcase full of aircraft plans
- upright piano
Vehicles:
- spy ring's "ghost plane" (w/ machine guns) (Destroyed)
- Marconi's fighter plane
Synopsis for Black Canary: "Tune of Terror"
Appearing in Black Canary: "Tune of Terror"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Bob Martin, also as Phil Martin
- Randall
- his gang
Other Characters:
- Phil Martin, Bob's twin brother
Locations:
- big city
- Train Station
- Juke Box Night Club (inherited)
- 15 Blake St., Martin's place
Items:
- pocket watch
Synopsis for Flash: "The Return of Kiua"
Maya, the high-priestess of the Mayan goddess Kiua, animates a statue of the god, unleashing chaos in Keystone City.
Appearing in Flash: "The Return of Kiua"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Maya (Single appearance)
- Kiua The Destroyer (Crumbled to dust)
- Kiua's fanatical bladesmen (Crumbled to dust)
Other Characters:
- Officer West, Keystone Cop (Dies)
Locations:
- Keystone City
- Garrick Research Laboratories
- Central America
- Mayan Jungles
Notes
- Published bi-monthly by National Comics Publications, Inc. This 76-page magazine sold for fifteen cents a copy, in an era when almost all other comics were 64 pages, for ten cents.
- Black Canary
- This story shows the heroine controlling an enormous flock of black canaries, a feat not performed in any other of her appearances. These canaries, acting in concert, are capable of amazing feats.
- Black Canary gets head-socked unconscious, with a bat.
- The Tune of Terror is reprinted in The Black Canary Archives Vol. 1.
- The Flash
- It's 1948. Jay Garrick and Joan Williams are not yet married.
- Kiua isn't really part of the traditional Mayan mythology.
- Maya, her fanatics, and their ten-story-tall stone carving of Kiua, all traveled from Central America to Keystone City, on a raft, via a little-known underground waterway.
- Green Lantern
- This is Sky Pirate's last appearance published during the Golden Age. His appearances in Justice League of America #193, All-Star Squadron #1 through #3, and America vs. the Justice Society #3 are later retcons.
- Green Lantern is head-bonked unconscious, with a wooden gun stock.
- The rights to Betty's antigravity mineral were sold to "The Science Foundation" for ten million dollars. The metal form of this material is unaffected by Green Lantern's ring. This material has not been seen or mentioned again.
- Hop Harrigan
- Tank gets head-whopped unconscious, with a blackjack.
Trivia
- Also appearing in this issue of Comic Cavalcade were:
- Table of Contents
- Editorial Advisory Board (promotional text)
- "Don't Miss ..." (2/3 page ad for the current issue of Flash Comics #92)
- "The Junior Justice Society of America is Back in Operation!" (full page ad for the club, and for the current issue of All-Star Comics #39)
- "Leave It to Binky!" (2/3 page ad for the current issue of Leave It to Binky #1)
- Statement of Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.
- "Bargain" (text story) by Charles King
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