Master Comics #24 is an issue of the series Master Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1942.
Synopsis for Captain Marvel, Jr.: "Death By Radio"
Appearing in Captain Marvel, Jr.: "Death By Radio"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Mr. Filpot, as Mister Macabre (First appearance) (Apparent Death)
- his gang: Sniper, six others
Other Characters:
- Harold Pitwell, Wall Street broker (Dies)
- Filmore Douglas, business associate (Dies)
- Umbersquire, business associate
- many cops (One dies)
Locations:
- New York City
- Freddy Freeman's shack (See Notes.)
- City Morgue
- Pitwell's mansion
- Douglas's mansion
- Umbersquire's mansion
- Macabre's cavern lair, far from the city
Vehicles:
- Macabre's black sedan
Synopsis for Bulletman: "Slick Jordan, Cutthroat Counterfeiter"
Appearing in Bulletman: "Slick Jordan, Cutthroat Counterfeiter"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Slick Jordan
- his gang: Brute, others
Other Characters:
- Detective O'Reilly (Dies)
- Detective Mike (Dies)
Locations:
- New York City
- Police Headquarters
- 14 Elm Street, Flower Shop
- series of jewelry stores
Items:
Vehicles:
- Jordan's red sedan
Synopsis for Minute Man: "The Ghost of Sir Francis Drake"
Appearing in Minute Man: "The Ghost of Sir Francis Drake"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- General Milton
- U.S. Army Intelligence, G-2
Antagonists:
- City Museum Curator Johnson, as Sir Francis Drake (fake)
- City Museum Trustee Smith, as Sir Francis Drake (fake)
Other Characters:
- Elizabeth I (Flashback only)
- City Museum Trustees
Locations:
- Washington, D.C. Area
- City Museum
- Bay Street Wharf
Items:
- Sir Francis Drake's Will (Destroyed)
- "Drake's" electrified rapier
Vessels:
- "Smith's" Yacht
Synopsis for El Carim: "A Wager with Fate"
Appearing in El Carim: "A Wager with Fate"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Gladys, El Carim's Secretary
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Ezra Meek
Locations:
- Washington, D.C. Area
- Tarnwood Cemetery
- Tarnwood Cemetery
Synopsis for Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal: "The Hooded Hoodlum"
Appearing in Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal: "The Hooded Hoodlum"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters: (See Notes.)
- Mesquite Mike, deputy
Antagonists:
- Baxter, the Hooded Hoodlum
Other Characters:
- Al Evans, prospector
Locations:
- American Old West
- Big Savage County, Arizona
- Big Savage County, Arizona
Synopsis for Companions Three: "The Lure of the Voodoo"
Appearing in Companions Three: "The Lure of the Voodoo"
Featured Characters
- Companions Three
- Don
- Spike
- Nifty
Antagonists:
- night club bouncer (Dies)
- Despann, night club proprietor
Other Characters:
- Miss Voodoo, night club singer
- Cops
- night club staff
Locations:
- swanky night club
Notes
- Published monthly by Fawcett Publications, Inc. 68 pages.
- Buck Jones's horse is not named in this episode.
- GCD lists the horse as "Silver," which may be wrong. Or not; Hopalong Cassidy had a horse named "Silver" too.
- Earlier in this series, the horse was named "Streak," and at the end he was named "Thunder." In many episodes the horse is never named at all.
- Bulletman:
- Bulletgirl gets poisoned with a faceful of toxin-treated flowers, and is unconscious and seemingly dead, but "suddenly because of the protective powers of her Gravity Helmet," she revives.
- Captain Marvel, Jr.:
- "Death by Radio" is reprinted in The Shazam! Family Archives Vol. 1.
- Freddy Freeman lives alone, in a shack, on an alley in a tenement. It has a fireplace. Mrs. Wagner and her boarding house won't be joining the cast until Captain Marvel, Jr. #52, (August 1947).
- Freddy gets head-konked unconscious, with a pistol butt.
- Despite his apparent death, Mr. Macabre will return in Master Comics #26 (May 1942).
- El Carim:
- His birth year, 1913, was given in page 1 panel 1 of "A Wager With Fate."
- El Carim and his assistant Gladys work very late hours at the office.
- Gladys' hair was reddish blonde last issue, now it's dark brown.
- Also featured in this issue of Master Comics were:
- "Captain Marvel Jr. Recommends:" (full-page black-&-White ad for the current issues of seven different Fawcett titles)
- "The Ring Master Presents" (Table of Contents)
- "It's a Giant!" (full-page full-color ad for Gift Comics, 324 pages, featuring Spy Smasher, Bulletman, Capt. Marvel, Ibis, and Mr. Scarlet)
- "Bulletman and Bulletgirl" (1/3-page ad for the current issue of Bulletman #4)
- PSA: "Help Defend America -- Be a Jr. Air Raid Warden" (silhouettes of 8 different warplanes)
- "Dead Man's Doublecross" (text story) by John Broome
Trivia
- El Carim still smokes cigarettes.
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)
Links and References
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