Holy Moley! Now, what's going on down in the living room? It just can't be true! The furniture is dancing around crazily... or maybe I'm going crazy! Crazy or not, I've got to stop this noise before it wakes up the roomers! It's no use! I can't make the furniture stop moving! What could be the cause of all this weird business? 
Mary Marvel #23 is an issue of the series Mary Marvel (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1948.
Synopsis for Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel and The Double Moon!"
Mary Batson is listening to the radio when news come in of a second Moon in the sky! A more powerful signal comes in from a “Satellite World” that they're going to invade the Earth somehow involving the second Moon. Mary calls SHAZAM to become Mary Marvel, but finds that the invaders from the Second Moon are using artillery guns to attack the regular Moon, which will create a rain of asteroids that will destroy the Universe. She punches out the meteors to dust and finds the “Satellite World” is actually just a big balloon with craters painted on and lights going off inside it. It turns out the invader inside this Second Moon is actually Georgia Sivana, but she finds even the Strength of Hippolyta cannot destroy the “special strong” plastic it's made of, which is too slippery to penetrate. Mary Marvel insists she can just tell people that Georgia isn't an invading alien force, but a single crazy girl in a fake Moon craft, but Mary Marvel finds that when Georgia shuts off the lights of her Second Moon, it becomes harder to see in the blackness of space. She tries flying her Second Moon off to another metropolitan city to demand they just surrender and name her Princess of Earth. Mary Marvel arrives with a pitchfork and pops the Second Moon, catching Georgia out of the sky and returns her to Reform School. Later, Mary is happy to see just one Moon in the sky now.
Appearing in Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel and The Double Moon!"
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- A Pitchfork
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- Georgia's Second Moon (Destroyed)
Synopsis for Freshman Freddy: "Freshman Freddy Puts Things on Ice"
Freshman Freddy and Harriet are out ice-skating, something they're both pretty good at. Ace and Stooge, looking on, decide to pull a fast one on Freshman Freddy and Stooge offers that Ace would win Harriet back by just being better at skating than him in a big race. Freddy doesn't quite want to, but seeing Harriet is watching, he feels forced to. Ahead of them as the race begins, Stooge spreads cinders on the ice. However, Ace demands to switch to that side of the track because it's the inside curve (and therefore shorter.) Ace slips and falls on his rear from the cinders and Freshman Freddy wins. Ace is furious waiting to see who left those cinders around.
Appearing in Freshman Freddy: "Freshman Freddy Puts Things on Ice"
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- Freshman Freddy
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- Ace
- Stooge
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- Earth-S
- Podunk
- Podunk University
- Podunk
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- Ice-Skates
- Cinders
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Synopsis for Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel and the Dancing Furniture"
Mary Batson and Mrs. Bromfield are inviting in people to live with them in spare rooms due to the housing shortage and first receive Mack Doyle, a “moving man.” That night, there is an uproar due to a flying bed and Mary calls SHAZAM to become Mary Marvel and wrestle it to the ground. She soon wrestles a grandfather clock, a table and a tray that are flying around. Mack Doyle reveals that he's the cause of all this: he's surrounded by Poltergeister, small imps that shove furniture around and make noises. He used to be a normal moving man, but one day he wrecked a truck filled with haunted furniture and now they are haunting him instead. He is more than fine with leaving, hoping they'll leave with him, but Mary Marvel insists she'll just stop them herself. They start banging on the piano, but turn into smoke when she grabs at them. Mack reveals the only thing that the Poltergeister are scared of are ghosts, so Mary Marvel flies around with a sheet over her head that chases them away forever. Mack Doyle is happy that he's both not haunted and he can get some sleep, so they both go back to bed.
Appearing in Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel and the Dancing Furniture"
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- Mack Doyle (A Moving Man)
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- Poltergeister
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- Earth-S
- New York City
- Mrs. Bromfield's House
- New York City
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- A Grandfather Clock
- A Bed
- A Tray
- A Bedsheet
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Synopsis for Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel and the Mad Huntress"
Mary Batson and Mrs. Bromfield are on safari in Africa with a hunter, Mr. Crown, and his partner huntress, Miss Gunn. Mary doesn't like them because they're violent and beat the Natives they work with. Mary wrenches the whip from Miss Gunn and she mildly apologizes, but thinks about how she's upset that their native helper Moola let free one of the rare Mangabey Monkeys they had. Mary promises there will be no more beatings and Crown and Gunn decide to become suspicious of her. Mrs. Bromfield wants to go see the Black Lily Gardens and they decide to tell Mary she can't come and has to “watch the Natives.” A suspicious Mary calls SHAZAM and becomes Mary Marvel. Mrs. Bromfield finds that the “Black Lily Gardens” doesn't exist and Miss Gunn throws her into a swamp full of alligators. Mary Marvel drags her out and defends her from Miss Gunn firing a gun at her, but the gunfire scares some nearby elephants into trampling a stampede. Mary Marvel flies in to drag them from being stomped to death. The two are dumped into a cage of logs and all the Natives are excited, since they know Mary Marvel from their favorite Mary Marvel Comics! Mary Batson soon returns and tells Mrs. Bromfield that Crown and Gunn were trying to kill her so they could pocket all the money and not need to pay off the expedition. Mrs. Bromfield decides maybe they should do their sightseeing at the zoo from now on!
Appearing in Mary Marvel: "Mary Marvel and the Mad Huntress"
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- Miss Gunn
- Mr. Crown
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- Moola
- Alligators
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Trivia
- Despite the cover, the little people in the story look more like tiny devils than gnomes and none of them try to kiss Mary Marvel. The pendulum striking also has little to do with it mainly: everything in the Bromfield House is making noise.
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