Now that you've led me here, Professor, I have no more need for you! That weight will stretch you apart gradually! Now to put on the Magic Slippers... Oof! -- Tight fit! But I'm getting them on with the help of this powder! It's working! The Magic Slippers are leading me to the treasure! HURRAY! 
Mary Marvel #22 is an issue of the series Mary Marvel (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1948.
Synopsis for Mary Marvel, the World's Mightiest Girl!: "Mary Marvel and The Silver Slippers, Part I: Treachery Afoot"
Professor Logan, an archaeologist, is inviting “Fame and Fortune” to any young girl who fits the Silver Slippers he has, in some sort of Cendrillon Scenario. Georgia Sivana tries her hand (or foot) at it while wearing a veil, but she fails just the same. Finally, he finds the person who fits the Silver Slippers happens to be a certain girl who looks like Dorothy Gale, Mary Batson! He reveals that he found these Silver Slippers in the ancient Mountain Kingdom of Sylvania and there’s an inscription on them that says whoever can wear them gets to go to a castle where there’s a huge treasure! In exchange for taking her there, he offers that they can split the treasure! Mary decides she’ll do it and donate her half to charity. Georgia, who was listening in from behind a large vase, runs in and shoves a smaller red vase on to Mary’s head, confusing and blinding her as she snatches the Silver Slippers and legs it. Mary reveals that she plays on the baseball team and removes the vase from her head and pegs it into Georgia’s tailbone, knocking her to the ground. She scurries off into the bushes, but Mary isn’t interested in going after her, since she didn’t get away with the Slippers. Prof. Logan offers they instead each hold on to one of the Slippers and gives one to Mary. That night, Georgia manages to mimic Mary’s voice and gets Prof. Logan to open his door and then cracks him in the head with a club. She drags him to a little green airplane she has nearby so he can show her where Sylvania actually is so she can get her free castle and / or treasure. Mary soon arrives and Georgia swings her club to try to hit Mary, but she leans back and calls SHAZAM, becoming Mary Marvel and grabbing Georgia by the face. Georgia uses a ring that essentially creates a hologram of the Wizard Shazam that Mary Marvel says his name aloud, turning back into Mary Batson, who is knocked out. Mary wakes up, as usual, bound and gagged, and now in a sarcophagus. She takes off in her green airplane as Mary wakes up to suffocating in a tomb...
Appearing in Mary Marvel, the World's Mightiest Girl!: "Mary Marvel and The Silver Slippers, Part I: Treachery Afoot"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Georgia Sivana, World's Wickedest Girl
Other Characters:
- Professor Logan, Archaeologist
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Prof. Logan's House
- New York City
Items:
- Magical Sylvanian Silver Slippers
- A Sarcophagus
Vehicles:
- Georgia's Green Airplane
Synopsis for Freshman Freddy: "Freshman Freddy and The Sleepwalker!"
Stooge spots Freddy having a fine ice-cream soda with Harriet, which incenses Ace. Ace leaves and Stooge decides he’s going to pull a fast one on Freshman Freddy! He finds that Prof. Little is walking around in a nightshirt, sleepwalking. He hands a club to Freddy, claiming there’s a burglar in Prof. Little’s house and then feigns being a shivering coward. However, Ace walks by and decides that he’ll steal the glory and knock out that burglar in Prof. Little’s house! Prof. Little gets clubbed and wakes up, telling Ace that he’s going to be seeing the Dean with him at 9:00. The next day, Ace loses all vacation this year. Ace heads out and runs into Stooge, who boasts about his prank, only for Ace to find that it was his plan that turned on him and he clobbers Stooge in the jaw. Later, Harriet notes that anyone who’d think Prof. Little in his own house was a burglar is an idiot and Freddy decides he’s not saying anything!
Appearing in Freshman Freddy: "Freshman Freddy and The Sleepwalker!"
Featured Characters:
- Freshman Freddy
Supporting Characters:
- Prof. Little
- Harriet
Antagonists:
- Ace
- Stooge
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- Podunk
- Podunk University
- Prof. Little's House
- Podunk University
- Podunk
Items:
- A Club
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel and The Silver Slippers, Part II: Treasure of Surprises"
Mary manages to grind her face into the rough stone interior of a sarcophagus and slips her gag to call SHAZAM and becomes Mary Marvel. She starts studying Prof. Logan’s research to figure out where Ancient Sylvania’s Mountain Kingdom is / was and finds it’s “across the ocean” and “in the mountains,” but certainly looks like it has a large gold-colored European castle on it. Georgia lands her green airplane near it and forces Prof. Logan to the dungeon, where she leaves him to be torn in half by a large weight tied his ankles while his arms are suspended over a beam. She forces on the Silver Slippers, which start to move on their own to literally walk her there. Mary Marvel hears Prof. Logan shouting and breaks through the wall to save him, but the Silver Slippers topple Georgia into the moat! Prof. Logan tells Mary Marvel that only someone who’s a good person can use the Silver Slippers and anyone with an evil thought will be thrown off to an untimely end. Mary Marvel is almost sad to see Georgia drown in an ancient Sylvanian moat and she calls SHAZAM to become Mary Batson to put on the Silver Slippers. They hop and leap their way to a wrecked throne, opening it to reveal under the seat are the crown jewels of Sylvania. Georgia lunges at them with a sword (having survived drowning,) but the Silver Slippers yank Mary out of the path of danger and even push Mary to kick her in to a suit of armor after she calls SHAZAM to become Mary Marvel once more. She makes some puns about how the shoes were responsible in stopping her and they all take Georgia’s plane back home. The next day in the WHIZ News, Mary Marvel is revealed to have donated the Sylvania Treasure to charity and Mary Batson got to keep the Silver Slippers, which are no longer magical, but do look good!
Appearing in Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel and The Silver Slippers, Part II: Treasure of Surprises"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Professor Logan, Archeologist
Locations:
- Sylvania, ancient mountain kingdom
- an old castle
Items:
- magical slippers
Vehicles:
- Georgia's airplane
Synopsis for Daffy Dill: "... Hooks a Date"
Appearing in Daffy Dill: "... Hooks a Date"
Featured Characters:
- Daffy Dill
Synopsis for Mary Marvel, the World's Mightiest Girl!: "Mary Marvel and The Year-Round Santa!"
At an old house at the edge of town, an elderly woman, Miss Pringle, tells her debtors that she can pay them tomorrow when Santa Claus brings her money. She insists this happens like every week and slams the door on them. They try sneaking into her house, but Mary Batson wanders by and catches them, calling SHAZAM to become Mary Marvel and drags one of them off the roof and then has to fly in the window to find the other has fallen through the floor. Miss Pringle insists Mary Marvel get these men out of her house and says that Santa Claus does come every week… but he hasn’t for a month or so. Mary Marvel points out he usually only comes once a year, but Miss Pringle produces a letter from Santa explaining that he’d be this absent. Mary Marvel is confused as to what it means, but the debtors leave quietly. Miss Pringle reveals her intricate system of living: once a week, she puts a note into a basket in her chimney and sends it up to Santa, who sends her whatever she needs or asks for, arriving on his sleigh even. In the night, Miss Pringle wakes up Mary Marvel in her chair to see the note going up to the roof and she flies them to the roof where they just see Santa and his sleigh! She follows him and finds that it’s a rich man named Dick, who is just driving a sleigh-shaped helicopter with carved reindeer on the front of it. Instead of introducing himself, he tells her a long story about the Great War. Dick was working with his cousin, Tom, as doughboys. Tom asks Dick to look after Lucy if he doesn’t make it out alive and then dies soon later. However, Lucy was too proud to accept his charity, wanting to be a strong and independent woman. Lucy Pringle in her older age was rejected due to ageism and forced her to retire. Dick remembered that she was a woman of childish wonder and decided he’d pull a whole intricate Santa Claus thing to give her the money she needs. Mary Marvel returns and says she thanked Santa Claus, who said he’ll keep paying for her. Miss Lucy Pringle snickers that her creditors never would believe that it’s Santa Claus who pays her way. Mary Marvel says those who don’t believe are missing out and that she should just keep on believing.
Appearing in Mary Marvel, the World's Mightiest Girl!: "Mary Marvel and The Year-Round Santa!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Miss Lucy Pringle
- Dick, Santa Claus impersonator
- Tom (Dies in flashback)
Antagonists
- Two Creditors
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Miss Pringle's House
- New York City
Items:
- The Santa Claus Chimney Basket
Vehicles:
- Dick's Santa Claus Sleigh Helicopter
Notes
- Also appearing in this issue of Mary Marvel was:
- A Bribe and Violence (text story), by Larry Steinfeldt
Trivia
- This issue's main story is likely inspired by Mary Batson's known and stated resemblance to actress Judy Garland, late of her appearance in The Wizard of Oz. Although in the original book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy Gale does receive a pair of trademark magic Silver Slippers, but famously in the film, they changed them to bright and sparkling ruby ones.
- Unlike the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, wherein Dorothy Gale loses the Silver Slippers in the Deadly Desert, Mary Batson gets to keep her pair!
- Despite the cover, Mary Marvel isn't threatened with a gun for trying on the Silver Slippers, nor is she offered them by a princely character. Instead, an archaeologist is inviting girls to wear them and Georgia decides to just steal them.
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