Mary Marvel (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1948.
Synopsis for Mary Marvel, the World's Mightiest Girl!: "Mary Marvel vs. Dicehead, Chapter One: Watery Grave"
Mary Batson and Mrs. Bromfield are going out to the theater, only to find that a criminal known as “Eyebrows” (they’re big) is holding up the box office. She quickly calls SHAZAM to become Mary Marvel and punches him into a car, but it happens to Eyebrows’ car, so he slips inside and takes off for a two-wheel hard left to the waterfront… where he immediately drives off a ramp into the bay. But between Mary Marvel diving in after him and finding the car empty, Eyebrows escapes with a secondary goon in a speedboat. A few minutes later, Eyebrows arrives with his friend Slicky to Dicehead’s Gambling Submarine Ship and Dicehead, a man with a freakishly pip-shaped eyes and nose, assures him that the police don’t come out into international waters and Mary Marvel will never find him. Slicky takes Eyebrows down to the Torpedo Room as Mary Marvel arrives and asks where Eyebrows is, but Dicehead plays dumb and says he’s never heard of him. She decides to look around, even if she knows she can’t stop his illegal gambling ship and she notices that everyone in his casino seems to win a lot. Dicehead tells Eyebrows and then shoves him into a torpedo tube. Mary Marvel returns to being Mary Batson to get around and confuses the goons looking for Mary Marvel, then finds that Dicehead has the stolen cash-box from the theater! Dicehead throws it in her face, knocking her out and then loads her into a torpedo tube and fires her into the ocean!
Appearing in Mary Marvel, the World's Mightiest Girl!: "Mary Marvel vs. Dicehead, Chapter One: Watery Grave"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Dicehead
- Eyebrows
- Slicky
Other Characters:
- Mrs. Bromfield
- A Box-Office Clerk
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Dicehead's Gambling Submarine Ship
- The Torpedo Room
Items:
- A Theater's Cash-Box
Vehicles:
- Eyebrows' Blue Sedan (Destroyed)
- Slicky's Speedboat
Synopsis for Freshman Freddy: "No Smoking Allowed"
Prof. Little is ornery again, demanding another 5,000-word essay on punctuality due to everyone being so late again. Ace and Stooge are upset that they’ll have to stay up late working on this and decide to take a cigarette and do so right next to the No Smoking Sign, even when Freshman Freddy points at it and says it’s against the rules! They immediately spot Prof. Little coming and foist their cigarettes into Freddy’s mouth. Prof. Little snatches the cigarettes from him and says he catches him with them again, he’s going to the Dean! Freddy decides to get even without being a snitch and heads out when Prof. Walters asks a freshman to buy him some cigarettes and gives him the money to. Prof. Little catches him buying them at the store and orders him out out the store and Ace and Stooge get confused, thinking these are their cigarettes they foisted on him from before. They demand them back, where Prof. Little manages to hear them and Freddy says these aren’t theirs, but the ones Prof. Walters asked him to buy. Ace openly states he’s going to just steal them from him anyways and Prof. Little realizes his errors and drags Ace and Stooge to see the Dean for smoking and extortion. Once again, Freddy gets a pass on having to write a 5,000-word essay on punctuality and he figures that it works out when you follow the rules.
Appearing in Freshman Freddy: "No Smoking Allowed"
Featured Characters:
- Freshman Freddy
Supporting Characters:
- Prof. Little
Antagonists:
- Prof. Walters
- Ace
- Stooge
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- Podunk
- Podunk University
- Campus Store
- Podunk University
- Podunk
Items:
- Prof. Walter's Cigarettes
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel vs. Dicehead, Chapter Two: Death Decoy"
Appearing in Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel vs. Dicehead, Chapter Two: Death Decoy"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Dicehead
- Jugears
- Slicky
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Dicehead's Gambling Submarine Ship
- New York City
Items:
- Giant Dice
- Dice-Shaped Turret (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel and The Comedy of Errors!"
Freckles Dudley is hanging out with Mary Batson at a part-time job at the Paree Beauty Salon, hoping she can get a job there. The owners, Pierre and Marie, are upset that they need to hire someone so they’ll have more time to attend to their customers and when Freckles shows up, they decide they can get her to do all the small things they don’t like doing and since she’s inexperienced, they can pay her less for a tepid $2 per week. Freckles mixes up several bowls of prepared hair dye. She is stunned when a woman in Booth 1 finds her hair is blue, then more come in with pink hair, green hair and purple hair, none of which who are happy with it. The green-haired woman freaks out and runs out the door into traffic, forcing Mary to call SHAZAM to become Mary Marvel and stop the car and lift the verdant-locked lady back to Paree Beauty Salon. Mary Marvel saves the lilac-haired lady from running through a plate-glass window. They sob on Freckles’ shoulders before they turn on Pierre, who accuses Freckles of mixing them incorrectly. However, Mary Marvel offers them a solution: she cuts and styles the pink-haired woman until her hair looks good despite being pink and she spends an extra two hours figuring out everyone else’s hairstyles, saving their business. Mary Marvel deflects and says that it was Freckles who made all these crazy colors, but now all the ladies in town want the mad crazy colors! Later, Mary returns to Paree Beauty Salon and finds that everything is coming up great… until she finds that Freckles has tried some of her own dye and turned her hair a less than fitting green.
Appearing in Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel and The Comedy of Errors!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Re-Satisfied Customers
Other Characters:
- Pierre
- Marie
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- The Paree Beauty Salon
- New York City
Items:
- Hair Dyes
Vehicles:
Trivia
- Despite the cover, Dicehead doesn't look like a man made entirely out of dice with yellow human hands. Instead, he looks like a strange-headed gangster with a cuboid head and pip-shaped eyes and nose (you know, the type Plastic Man or Dick Tracy fights.)
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