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Mary Marvel Vol 1 12

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"Mary Marvel, the World's Mightiest Girl!: "Mary Marvel and Georgia Sivana's Green-Ray Gun"": Georgia Sivana gets out reform school on parole, and Mary's waiting outside to warn her if she steps out of line once, she's going straight back. Georgia promises she's given up her dreams of being prin

Quote1 Go sit on a tack, little one! I'm going to break this jail wide open! Quote2
— Mary Marvel

Mary Marvel #12 is an issue of the series Mary Marvel (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1947.

Synopsis for Mary Marvel, the World's Mightiest Girl!: "Mary Marvel and Georgia Sivana's Green-Ray Gun"

Georgia Sivana gets out reform school on parole, and Mary's waiting outside to warn her if she steps out of line once, she's going straight back. Georgia promises she's given up her dreams of being princess of the world, and looking to give her a fair chance, Mary invites her to a party where Georgia's introduced to fellow previous reform school attendee Al Bates. He refuses Georgia's offer to be her aide in an upcoming scheme, not wanting to get on the wrong side of the law again. This prompts her to force him by planting one of the girls' purses in his coat pocket so Al's fingered for robbery when the "theft" is noticed.

Georgia rescues Al from the police, and this time succeeds in enlisting Al to assisting her, because he's a fugitive with nowhere else to go. She unveils a ray gun she invented that turns its victim's face indelibly green, and has Al go around town shooting people with it. That done, Georgia drops flyers all over town promising to cure the affliction for $100 a head. None of the victims showing up to Georgia's clinic realize the release form they're actually signing is a promise for submission when she becomes the princess of Earth. Mary shows up too, but Georgia knocks out her and Al and ties them up. Al manages to get Mary's gag off with his teeth so she can say her magic word. Her duplicity revealed, Al's name is cleared, the cure for the green face conditioned is announced so the victims can just cure themselves.

Appearing in Mary Marvel, the World's Mightiest Girl!: "Mary Marvel and Georgia Sivana's Green-Ray Gun"

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Other Characters:

  • Dr. Sivana (Mentioned only)
  • Mary Batson's friends
    • Al Bates (Single appearance)

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Synopsis for Freshman Freddy: "Freshman Freddy Dives into Action"

Coach Ed Stevens ushers Team Podunk U to their places for the big swim meet against Squeedunk Tech. Ace naturally is arriving late for his high diving championship and Ace takes the opportunity to laugh at an old-style swimming costume. The Coach tells him to get to his place. Outside, Freshman Freddy decides he’s going to get good seats. Ace and Stooge are derisive of his presence and Ace decides to pull a fast one on Freshman Freddy. Ace offers he can join the swim team and he doesn’t even need to swim well to be a diver, though Freddy insists he can’t dive either. Ace whisks him off to the lockers and gets him to putting on the swimming costume and rubs grease on his feet, which he insists gives “good grip” on the diving board. He waits patiently for Ace to call him out. The Swim Meet goes poorly, with things tied at 31-31 and Squeedunk Tech winning the 100m. Freddy hears that it’s the high diving contest and dashes out to the pool and accepts on behalf of Podunk U before Coach Stevens can get Ace there. He is furious with Ace for making a joke of the Swim Meet, especially since Freddy has likely never dived before, only for Freddy to, by complete accident, land the perfect dive and Squeedunk Tech concedes the Meet! The Coach from Squeedunk Tech is amazed by Freddy’s innate diving prowess and everyone begins cheering for the Freshman in the swimming costume and Coach Stevens says that Ace is going to be Substitute for Freddy on the swim team now!

Appearing in Freshman Freddy: "Freshman Freddy Dives into Action"

Featured Characters:

  • Freshman Freddy

Supporting Characters:

  • Coach Ed Stevens

Antagonists:

  • Ace
    • Stooge

Other Characters:

  • The Squeedunk Tech Coach

Locations:

  • Podunk
    • Podunk University
      • Podunk University Swimming Pools
        • Podunk U Locker Rooms

Items:

  • A High Diving Board

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Synopsis for Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel Meets 'the Beehive People'"

Mary visits with a boy inventor who's come up with a "working" time machine. They take it out for a test flight 100 years into the future, and wonder at the absence of cities. A group of dwarf warriors with spears like an ant's mandibles attack them, but Mary Marvel easily fends them off. The inventor persuades her to let the future-people capture them, though, so he can see how people live in 2047. They're taken to a house like a giant beehive, and the residents even prepare honey from flower pollen and have the same caste system as a bee colony, including a tyrannical queen. Mary overthrows her, but when they try to return home, they find the time machine's conked out. One of the people asks what they're talking about when they mention being marooned in the future; it's 1947, and they're a group of eccentric former circus midgets who decided to establish their own society out in the woods. The only thing the "time machine" did was fly them a few miles out into the country.

Appearing in Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel Meets 'the Beehive People'"

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Antagonists:

  • Madame Jones, Queen of the Hive (Single appearance)
  • Warrior caste (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

  • "Beehive People" (A group of former circus midgets who live in the woods in the manner of a colony of bees) (Single appearance)
  • Creighton Tinkerman, Boy Scientist

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Vehicles:

  • Creighton's faulty time machine

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Synopsis for Mary Marvel, the World's Mightiest Girl!: "Mary Marvel and the 'Ship Without a Port'"

Mary Batson and Mrs. Bromfield are out distributing food to the needy for charity. A widow remarks how it’s been hard since her husband went missing on the Flying Scotchman one year ago, but she’s hopeful that he’s actually alive. One of his children is equally supportive. Suddenly, a report on the radio says that the Flying Scotchman has been discovered by another ship, the Cyclops, but it has been mysteriously evasive to their help. Mary decides to look into things and calls SHAZAM to become Mary Marvel. Flying out over the Atlantic, she finds that a strange force is pushing her back, but she is able to plunge through it at the right diving angle. She finds the Captain of the Flying Scotchman who reveals she’s the first newcomer to arrive since they were cursed.

Every since Capt. Stelling drove this cursed ship. A year ago, they drove into some kind of “electrical storm” and now, any time they try to move to port, they cannot and are pushed away, much like the legend of the Flying Dutchman. Mary Marvel insists that curses aren’t real, though Capt. Stelling also points out that fish won’t come near their boat and the only food they can eat are harpooned albatrosses. Mary Marvel is sickened seeing the men fight for the downed bird and offers she’ll split it equally. Mary Marvel tries manually pushing the Flying Scotchman to port, but the mysterious force seem more likely to break the ship rather than let it through. The cabin fever begins to affect the sailors, who believe that they must rid the “Jonah,” a source of bad luck on a ship. They declare Mary Marvel, a girl, to be a Jonah and throw her overboard until she thrashes them. She soon shows the crew an intricate trick you can do at home by rubbing a piece of wool on to an amber comb to charge it with negative static energy, which can attract bits of silk or even bits of paper! However, when you rub the silk on the glass, it creates a negative charge as well, repelling it from the static comb and presumes that their whole ship has some form of magnetic charge that makes it impossible for them to reach port. To fix things, Mary Marvel purposefully angers a Sperm Whale and draws it towards the Flying Scotchman where it’s promptly killed by lightning in the world’s most deadly static shock. Capt. Stelling is happy he can now see his wife and children again and have a very expensive whale they can sell too.

Appearing in Mary Marvel, the World's Mightiest Girl!: "Mary Marvel and the 'Ship Without a Port'"

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Supporting Characters:

  • Captain Stelling of the Flying Scotchman

Antagonists:

  • A Sperm Whale (Dies)

Other Characters:

  • The crew of The Flying Scotchman (Single appearance)
  • Jonah (Mentioned only)
  • Mrs. Bromfield
  • Mrs. Stelling and her children (Single appearance)

Locations:

Items:

  • An Amber Comb
  • A Piece of Wool
  • A Piece of Silk

Vehicles:

  • Flying Dutchman (Mentioned only)
  • The Flying Scotchman (A ship that has been lost at sea for a year) (Single appearance)
  • The Cyclops (Mentioned only)

Trivia

  • Despite the cover, Mary Marvel does nothing involving television or any sort of TV production for children, though both of the scenes she's showing do show up.
  • Despite most Scotsmen referring to themselves as Scotsmen, Scots, or Scottish, the ship is named for the obscure occupation known as a Scotchman. A "Scotchman" was an ancient profession in the days of horse-drawn carriages that would place wedging blocks ("scotches") under wheels to stop them from rolling away while on steep hillsides.


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