Hey! He's loosening the wheel on that car! It'll go off the tracks and Babs is in there! 
Master Comics #78 is an issue of the series Master Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1947.
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Death on the Scenic Railway"
“Babs” Randall is a local rich girl who tells her father she wants to go to the carnival, but her disapproving father refuses, as it would require her to mingle with all those people and instead offers that she listen to her uptight Cousin Malcolm tell a boring story. Finding that the gate isn’t actually closed, Babs legs it to go to the carnival anyways. Freddy Freeman notices her on the street as she’s trying to duck Cousin Malcolm, sending her almost face-first into a plate-glass window (which he thinks will shatter on impact,) calling CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr., dragging her over it. She promptly faints in the arms of the World’s Mightiest Boy and she soon comes to, so he returns to being Freddy. He finds that he’s dropped his ticket to the carnival. Babs is sad to hear that she made Freddy lose his ticket, so she says that she has a +1 ticket, so he come with her and show her around perhaps. They soon head there and enter the Giant Maze. However, Babs is attacked by Cousin Malcolm, who left the gate open and let her come to the carnival so he can throw a knife at her and punch her in the head, promising he’ll soon manage to steal all of her father’s money. Freddy hears her scream and calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Junior again and flies out of the Giant Maze to find Cousin Malcolm, who claims she saw a snake in the Maze and fainted, having escaped from the Snake Charmer. Also, he killed it and he’s taking her home now, but it’s okay because she’s his cousin. Junior recognizes her as the Richest Girl in the World and internally worries that she was just teasing Freddy when coming out with him and trying to ditch him. Cousin Malcolm soon buys out all the seats on the Scenic Railway roller-coaster. Junior returns to being Freddy, who goes to the Giant Maze again and finds the knife and the broken mirror and then that there is no Snake Charmer there! He pays the roller-coaster operator to go get them an ice-cream cone with $5 (and to keep the change,) and uses a monkey wrench to sabotage the Scenic Railway. Freddy watches him do it, but when he goes to call his magic words, Cousin Malcolm seizes him and seats him, bound and gagged, next to unconscious Babs. Cousin Malcolm starts up the coaster himself to kill the world’s richest heiress, but Babs wakes up due to the speedy wind of a wooden coaster and the car soon drops a wheel and derails. Babs ungags Freddy, who calls CAPTAIN MARVEL and lowers her to safety as Captain Marvel, Jr. He sets her down and punches over Malcolm and then drags him to her, but she is worried first about Freddy, confirming her wanting to go with him to the carnival was genuine. Later, Mr. Randall thanks Freddy for being a good friend to his daughter and that Cousin Malcolm is in jail now where he belongs. He admits he was wrong to keep Babs sealed away and she plans on throwing a big party with Freddy and all the new friends she’s going to make!
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Death on the Scenic Railway"
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- Babs Randall
Villains:
- Cousin Malcolm Randall
Other Characters:
- Mr. Randall
- A Carnival Worker
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- The Randall Estate
- A Carnival
- The Giant Maze
- The Scenic Railway Roller-Coaster
- New York City
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- A Sheet of Plate-Glass
Synopsis for Bulletman the Flying Detective: "The Missing Body!"
Jim Barr and Susan Kent just get out of a Hopalong Cassidy film when they hear gunshots and mad gangster Joe Stazy killing someone with them near a small construction site. They quickly change into the Bullets and fire after him to tail his car. They force him off the road and say they can arrest him since they saw him shoot someone themselves and he is strangely agreeable in doing so. They find this is because the body is missing! They presume it’s been hidden in a nearby abandoned building, but searching it comes up negative. Without a body, legally they can’t charge him for murder. They decide to go tell Lt. Kent anyways. Lt. Kent points out that’s going to be hard to sell the DA without a body. Bulletman has a sudden hunch and goes to City Hall to talk with an inspector, finding out there was no roadwork at that time! Bulletman flies out there and finds that Stazy buried the body in the street and lured the man there so he could bury him there and then flattened it out with a steamroller while they were busy chasing Stazy himself across town. When he goes to find Stazy though, he gets beat in the nape with a pipe from one of Stazy’s goons, he prepares to boil him in hot street tar. Bulletgirl soon gets a similar hunch about the street repairs and finds from the same inspector a confirmation of what she’d had in mind and soon finds Joe Stazy driving a steamroller to crush Bulletman into the street. She punches him out and routes the steamroller, then saves Bulletman who punches out the tar-boiling goon as well. They decide to go call the police and then rinse all this tar off of Bulletman.
Appearing in Bulletman the Flying Detective: "The Missing Body!"
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- Joe Stazy
- Stazy's Tar-Boiler
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- A City Insepector
- Lt. Kent
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- Earth-S
- New York City
- Police HQ
- New York City
Items:
- Street Tar
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- Joe Stazy's Car
- A Steamroller
Synopsis for Nyoka the Jungle Girl: "The Killer King"
Appearing in Nyoka the Jungle Girl: "The Killer King"
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Synopsis for Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: "Counselors-at-Law"
Appearing in Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: "Counselors-at-Law"
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- Colonel Corn
- Korny Kobb
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Synopsis for Radar the International Policeman: "Guest for Death"
Appearing in Radar the International Policeman: "Guest for Death"
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Trivia
- Despite the cover, Captain Marvel, Jr. doesn't save a car full of people from a failing roller-coaster! Instead, he almost falls to victim to one and is saved himself by a nice girl he met.
- Jim Barr and Susan Kent were likely going to see one of the two Hopalong Cassidy films that had already come out so far in the year 1947: Fool's Gold and Unexpected Guest. He's go on to star in another three films that year before filming another six the year after before the films stopped proving marketable. Afterwards, star William Boyd would buy up the rights to his 66 film series and re-edit them for television broadcast from 1949 to 1952. It would also create the first themed lunchbox tie-in!
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