Shazam! #24 is an issue of the series Shazam! (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1976.
Synopsis for "Sivana Saves Captain Marvel"
This story is reprinted from Captain Marvel Adventures #148.
A strange ray reduces Billy's neighborhood grocer to a pile of dust, and Captain Marvel soon discovers someone's been turning people into talking bugs with another strange ray. The hero goes after a rocketship being piloted by his old foe Sivana, who pretends to surrender. It's only to give him the chance to shove a gadget into the hero's mouth that makes his next breath sound like "Shazam," summoning his lightning and turning him back into powerless Billy. Sivana clubs him with a wrench, and puts the boy into a coffin that he leaves in orbit for all time.
As soon as he gets back to Earth, Sivana demands the world surrender or he'll turn everyone into bugs. To his frustration, Sivana's immediately told it doesn't matter, because some other villain has a terrible ray that can turn anyone, anywhere into dust. The world's finished. The owners of that dust ray, the Azpaks, then confront Sivana. They're taking over the world, and because his scientific brilliance enables him to take on the demigod Captain Marvel, he's at the top of their hit list. Sivana escapes with a smoke bomb hidden in a false tooth, and then, to his great frustration and embarrassment, retrieves Billy to team up with Captain Marvel so he'll be powerful enough to take on the Azpaks. Feelings which only get worse when Captain Marvel thanks Sivana while taking him to jail after they defeat the other villains.
Appearing in "Sivana Saves Captain Marvel"
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- Doctor Sivana
- Azpaks
Other Characters:
- United Nations representatives
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Synopsis for "In the Days of Robin Hood"
This story is reprinted from Captain Marvel, Jr. #118.
Captain Marvel Jr. is summoned from 1953 to 700 years ago by a sorcerer and a bondsboy, in order to rescue Robin Hood who was jailed by the Earl of Nottingham. Captain Marvel Jr. comes to Nottingham where the Earl is competing in a archery contest, and after trespass Earl's arrow which was in the center of a target, he is jailed. Learning that Robin Hood and his men is jailed with him, Captain Marvel Jr. free everyone and the team fight with the Earl's soldiers. The Earl was extorting money from the people to pay brigands to slay King Richard and take the throne. King Richard is in Plymouth, two days of riding from Nottingham. The World's Mightiest Boy flies carrying Robin Hood and the Merry Men until Plymouth, just in order to defeat the brigands and save the king. Returnng to his throne, King Richard makes the sorcerer a member of his Royal Court. As for the bondsboy, the king sets him free from bondage, and called him Freeman - ancestor of Freedy Freeman.
Appearing in "In the Days of Robin Hood"
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- Earl of Nottingham
Other Characters:
- Friar Tuck
- Little John
- King Richard the Lion-Hearted
- John Freeman, former Bondsboy and ancestor of Freddy Freeman
- Forest Sorcerer
- A shepherd
- Earl of Nottingham's soldiers
- Earl of Nottingham's brigands
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- Magic Globe (Destroyed)
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