Limited Collectors' Edition (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1974.
Synopsis for "Sivana's Voodoo Curse"
This story is reprinted from Captain Marvel Adventures #127.
Captain Marvel has put Doctor Sivana in jail yet again, but ends up catching a corner of his cape in the jail door, letting it tear off. Captain Marvel tells a guard not to mind it and that he’ll be back in a week to testify against him. Sivana is under direct and heavy guard of a man pointing a rifle at his head most of the day until he looks up the concept of voodoo in a dictionary. To that end, he creates a “voodoo doll” of Captain Marvel from his cape shred and tries to use it during his trial. Stabbing a needle into the doll, Sivana finds that it mostly just itches to Captain Marvel and starts to have an attack of itching and scratching. In the fracas, Sivana escapes from his own trial and runs off into the streets of NYC to get to one of his preset laboratory hideouts. Tossing the voodoo doll into a deep freezer, Captain Marvel finds he’s frozen right next to Sivana and cannot move as Sivana runs behind him and kicks him in the rear several times. Trying to use a diamond-cutting saw to attack him, he finds it also isn’t working against the World’s Mightiest Mortal. Sivana realizes now he’ll have to deal with Captain Marvel’s frozen body and manages to lug him into a closet. Suddenly, Sivana’s power goes out due to him not paying his power bill, unfreezing the doll, but Sivana uses a small model set to make the voodoo doll for Captain Marvel head towards a volcano erupting nearby. Using a tiny voicebox, Sivana tries to make him call SHAZAM, which forces Captain Marvel to do so while next to a volcano! However, Captain Marvel suddenly returns and soundly defeats Sivana! He reveals that Captain Marvel had his mouth full of lava when he tried to make him call SHAZAM, meaning he didn’t return Billy at all and just came back to defeat him. Later, a maddened Sivana plays with normal dolls in a delirious state in his cell.
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Synopsis for "The Man with the 100 Heads"
This story is reprinted from Captain Marvel, Jr. #54.
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Synopsis for "Mr. Tawny's Diet Dangers"
This story is reprinted from Captain Marvel Adventures #121.
Mr. Tawky Tawny is singing in the shower because Billy Batson promised him an audition for a new program on WHIZ-TV! However, he finds his collar doesn’t fit right anymore and a rude stranger asks if he gained weight recently. Mr. Tawny consults a penny scale and is aghast to find that he has indeed. Mr. Tawny heads to Station WHIZ and meets with Horace Hubb, a clothing sponsor who wants him to show off his suits on television as a male model! However, when he sees that Mr. Tawny is not well-fitted in a tuxedo of his, he angrily shotus at him for this. Another man shoves in and offers a replacement model for Hubb. Billy recognizes this as “the 10% Agent,” Carlton Snodgrass, a crooked talent agent and tries to speak his mind, only for Carlton to shove his hand into a child’s face. Billy calls SHAZAM and Captain Marvel scares off Snodgrass and offers that Horace Hubb give Mr. Tawny a week to slim down by 25 lbs to fit a tuxedo better. Hubb agrees to this bet and Snodgrass cringes away in defeat, eager to sabotage Mr. Tawny’s progress.
Captain Marvel soon starts Mr. Tawny on a regimen of “reducing pills,” a diet of lettuce on toast, hours on a vibrating belt machine and then a 15 mile run. However, after three days of hard work, Captain Marvel is astonished to find Mr. Tawny’s weight hasn’t changed at all! Captain Marvel takes Mr. Tawny to the gym to punch a punching bag, use a rowing machine, get massaged by the World’s Mightiest Mortal… and still seems to have only lost 1.5 oz! Captain Marvel tries out 30 rounds of boxing with Mr. Tawny, direct body slams and locking him in a steam bath… which somehow gains him five pounds! Captain Marvel is confused as an exhausted Mr. Tawny goes home and dreams of enjoying delicious food. In the night, someone is sneaking food into Mr. Tawny’s house and he’s sleep-eating all of it in a binge, only for Captain Marvel to snap on the lights and discover that it’s Snodgrass, who throws a pie in his face and scarpers out the back door. Captain Marvel tries to get Mr. Tawny back into the mood for three more days of excessive exercise, but the next day, a stationary bicycle collapses under Mr. Tawny, he nearly punches a punching bag with a bomb in it and then spots Snodgrass escaping. He throws his legs into a pair of gymnastic rings, catching him as Mr. Tawny punches him around like a punching bag and does repeated jump rope while Captain Marvel arrests him. By the week’s end, Mr. Tawky Tawny is slender enough to win the big contract with Horace Hubb and Billy introduces him on-air as “Mr. 'Well-Dressed' Tawny”!
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- Carlton Snodgrass (Single appearance)
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- Horace Hubb (Single appearance)
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- Earth-S
- New York City
- Atlantic Ocean (Mentioned only)
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- Reducing Pills
- A Vibrating Belt Machine
- A Bomb-Trigged Punching Bag
- A Rowing Machine
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Synopsis for "The Fantastic Freezing Furies!"
This story is reprinted from The Marvel Family #82.
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- Mammoths
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Synopsis for "The Mistake of Father Time"
This story is reprinted from The Marvel Family #20.
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Synopsis for "The Black Magician"
This story is reprinted from The Marvel Family #2.
Mary and her friends are having a picnic in a nature preserve. She catches a crook shooting a deer, transforms, and deflects his bullets so they send a beehive dropping onto him. Hiding in a lake to escape the stinging swarm, the crook emerges to find himself face-to-face with an honest-to-goodness wizard. He demonstrates his powers by transforming a rabbit's head into a fox's, and then doing the same to a girl from the picnic (also giving her amnesia). The poacher collects the transformed kids (including Mary, who has the head of an owl) to start a freakshow. The goddesses who empower Mary appear to her, holding up cards with their names, which gets to her to remember her magic word. She beats up the fiends, forces the wizard to break his spell, then hauls them off to the nearest police precinct.
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Synopsis for "Captain Marvel Meets Uncle Marvel's Rival"
This story is reprinted from Captain Marvel Adventures #53.
A penniless Ebenezer Batson preys on Billy's giving nature to try to seize control of Shazam Inc. He and Uncle Marvel repeatedly butt heads, until Uncle Marvel catches Ebenezer counting money he robbed from the safe while pretending thieves attacked the offices. Warned by Dudley, Captain Marvel catches Ebenezer looking under Billy's bed for money and punts him out the window.
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- Earth-S
- New York City
- WHIZ Radio
- The offices of Shazam, Inc.
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Synopsis for "The Trio of Terror"
This story is reprinted from The Marvel Family #21.
The three Dingling Brothers try, but fail, to hire the Marvels, in order to save their failing carnival business. When that doesn't work out, they steal a book of magic instead. They draw a circle, and summon a Satyr, a Hydra, and Argus, placing them in a cage, and planning to exhibit them. What they do not realize is that the monsters have to return to the Netherworld in 24 hours, unless three replacements are sent. Planning to send back the brothers instead of themselves, the monsters use their supernatural strength to break out of the cage, and are able to fight their way past the Marvels, who by now have come to investigate the spellbook's theft. The Marvels are able to defeat the fiends in their second battle, then take them back to the circle. They transform into their civilian forms, to meet the brothers and get the book back, but when they return to the circle, the Monsters seize them, prevent them speaking, gag them, tie them up, and place them in the circle, hoping to send them back to the Netherworld. However, when lightning comes down to transport them, as the Satyr reads the spell, it instead transforms the kids into the Marvel Family, who send the monsters back to the Netherworld. The brothers then reveal that they took footage of the fight and can use it to make money, which they then do.
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- three Dingling Brothers
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- Earth-S
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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)
- Limited Collectors' Edition C-21
- Limited Collectors' Edition C-35