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The Marvel Family #58 is an issue of the series The Marvel Family (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1951.
Synopsis for "The Marvel Family Battles the Triple Time Plot"
The Marvels are summoned to the Rock of Eternity by Shazam. Shazam on his Chronoscope shows a danger to civilization. Leonardo da Vinci, who is called the greatest genius of all past ages, is shown in 1500 being attacked by a hooded figure who Shazam says they shall call Doctor X. He then shows the greatest scientist of 3000 AD, Master Zane, being attacked by Doctor Y, who has a Y on his hood. Then in 1951 Professor Bockberg the Mathematician is shown being attacked by Doctor Z. Shazam says these three men are the Greatest Geniuses of Human History, of the Past, Present, and Future. Doctor X, Y, and Z are planning to steal their minds. Shazam says he cannot tell any more, but they will conquer all civilization for all time if they succeed. Jr. goes to the Past, Mary to the Future, and Captain Marvel to the Present. Jr. thinks he is attracting too much attention and becomes Freddy again. He cleans up Da Vinci's studio while the genius works on a submarine. But Doctor X, with an X on his head, comes up through the floor using a trapdoor and knocks Freddy out. When he comes to he and Da Vinci are both tied to chairs and gagged. X has connected a device to the brain of Da Vinci which will record the convulations of Da Vinci's brain onto the mechanical brain. With the minds of the Geniuses, he plans to make weapons to crush civilization. When he finishes he throws a knife at Da Vinci but Freddy strains up out of his chair and cuts his gag off, allowing him to transform. He saves Da Vinci stopping the knife with hs hand. X escapes in a Rocket ship which is a Time ship, but Jr. holds it and is dragged through time. In 1951 the rockets are turned on knocking Jr. off, but it moves towards a cave, which Jr. follows it to. In 3000 Mary Marvel is sent out of Zane's lab as he is busy. She pretends to be his daughter Kitty as he is near-sighted. He completes invention 6,787, and she says he is the Thomas Edison of the Future. However Y then swings down and knocks her out. When Mary comes to she is tied on a chair and gagged, while Zane is strapped to a chair and the metal brain has taken his knowledge. Y sets the place on fire, but Mary sticks her face in the flames so her gag burns of and she transforms. She takes Zane out, then chases Y through time by hanging onto his ship. Again she follows him into a cave. Cap watches Bockberg for hours but distracts him so turns to Billy, saying he wants to hear about his new formula. Bockberg says his formula controls thought and they can build thought broadcasters someday like radio stations, but Billy is knocked out from behind by Z's gun-blow to the head. He and Bockberg are tied to chairs and Billy is gagged. Before Bockberg can be shot after Z has the recording of his brain, Billy gets his gag off by hooking it on the gun, transforms, stops the bullets, then unties Bockberg and chases Z to the cave, where he meets the other 2 Marvels. They fly in and Cap defeats Z, but they can't find the other two. Cap realises X, Y, and Z were the same guy. In answer to Mary asking how they could be fought at the same time, Cap points out they fought him in different times. Shazam says only the Marvel Family could have stopped the attack and Cap smashes the metal brain. Presumably the villain goes to jail.
Appearing in "The Marvel Family Battles the Triple Time Plot"
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- Doctor X/Doctor Y/Doctor Z (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Kitty (Master Zane's daughter) (Single appearance) (In a photograph only)
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Master Zane (Single appearance)
- Professor Bockberg (Single appearance)
- Thomas Edison (Mentioned only)
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- Shazam's Chronoscope
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- A timeship (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel Fights the Likeness Peril"
An evil wizard's being pursued by Mary Marvel. Because his tricks don't stop her, he uses one to make every man in the town he lands in look like him. Mary eventually tracks him by borrowing the city registry and asking every man she meets his name. The wizard's the only one who gave her a fake name.
Appearing in Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel Fights the Likeness Peril"
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- Diavolo, Master of Black Magic (Single appearance)
- A dragon (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "The Man Who Lived Two Centuries"
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "The Man Who Lived Two Centuries"
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Supporting Characters:
- Joan Jameson
- Sterling Morris (Cameo)
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- Swiper Sykes (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Ebenezer Whitt (Single appearance)
- Swindler Sykes (Single appearance) (In a photograph only)
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel Jr. Fights the Freak Fiasco"
The head of a freakshow covertly gets lodgings at Freddy Freeman's boardinghouse and feeds the other tenants spiked soup to turn them into carnies to recruit them.
Appearing in Captain Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel Jr. Fights the Freak Fiasco"
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Supporting Characters:
- Jim Bellows
- Leroy Marks
- Mrs. Wagner
- Professor Edgewise
- Red O'Riley (Mistakenly called Red O'Reilly in this story)
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- Boris Bane (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Battles the Blackness Plague"
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel Battles the Blackness Plague"
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- Reginald Gray (Single appearance)
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See Also
Recommended Reading
- Marvel Family Recommended Reading
- Whiz Comics (Volume 1)
- Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1)
- Captain Marvel, Jr. (Volume 1)
- Mary Marvel (Volume 1)
- Master Comics (Volume 1)
- Wow Comics (Volume 1)
- The Marvel Family (Volume 1)
- Hoppy the Marvel Bunny (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam!: The New Beginning (Volume 1)
- The Power of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder (Volume 1)
- Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil (Volume 1)
- The Trials of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 2)
- Shazam! (Volume 3)
- Shazam! (Volume 4)
- The New Champion of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 5)