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"The Marvel Family: "The Marvel Family battles the Great Red Brain"": Billy receives a missive from Washington from the Marvel Family, prompting the kids to transform. "The Reds" have launched a three-pronged attack that's battering back American forces. They investigate, and foil, in turn, a ro

Quote1 Relax, folks! The world is back to normal! After the final unscrambling job, the Marvel Family smashed Sivana's evil invention! Sivana ended up fumbling and bumbling his jumblings and is now mumbling and grumbling to himself in jail! Quote2
Billy Batson

The Marvel Family #80 is an issue of the series The Marvel Family (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1953.

Synopsis for The Marvel Family: "The Marvel Family battles the Great Red Brain"

Billy receives a missive from Washington from the Marvel Family, prompting the kids to transform. "The Reds" have launched a three-pronged attack that's battering back American forces. They investigate, and foil, in turn, a robot army on land, a submarine with a giant ship-sinking magnet attached to it, and a blimp creating a plane-wrecking tornado with a giant fan. The mastermind is an Asian warlord named Tong, but when Captain Marvel starts fighting through his underlings, he asks help from an even higher source called the Great Red Brain, before escaping in a rocket ship. After fighting off a "maniac ray" that makes American soldiers fight each other, the Marvels trace it to its source, a hidden fortress where a gigantic brain in a tank has been putting its enormous intellect to the problem of neutralizing the Marvels. Its mental powers are so awesome, it's able to freeze the mighty Marvels in place, read their minds, and telepathically compel them to say their magic words and revert to helpless youths. As well as forget their magic words. However, Billy manages to impersonate a guard, and with a base ploy, gets the Great Red Brain to reveal the magic words to use as a warcry when attacking American forces. With their powers restored, the Marvels stop Tong's latest plot and destroy the Great Red Brain.

Appearing in The Marvel Family: "The Marvel Family battles the Great Red Brain"

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  • Tong's Maniac Ray Generators (Destroyed)

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  • North Korean Magnet Submarine (Destroyed)
  • North Korean Fan Zeppelin (Destroyed)
  • Tong's Rocket-Ship


Synopsis for The Marvel Family: "The Marvel Family Fights the World Jumbler"

A series of inexplicable geographical instances occur (a cruise ship finds itself in a river in the middle of a mountain range, a rural Kansas town is suddenly transported to the middle of a lake, and the WHIZ building suddenly being transported into the middle of an African jungle). Comparing notes, they discern Sivana must be up to his old tricks again. When they try to attack him and destroy the machine he's using to confuse the world's geography, he threatens to transport a million people to the moon unless they come in as the kids. Caving to the villain's demands, he transports them to Jupiter, where the air's too thin for them to audibly say their magic words. Billy fixes this by starting a fire and burning crystals of frozen oxygen. Able to transform, they lasso Sivana's ship and return things to normal.

Appearing in The Marvel Family: "The Marvel Family Fights the World Jumbler"

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  • A Lion
  • An Ape

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  • A Static Machine
  • Sivana's Matter Mover Machine (Destroyed)

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  • Sivana's Rocket-Ship (Destroyed)

Synopsis for The Marvel Family: "The Marvel Family and the Ghastly Space Ghoul"

A spaceship almost crashes but is caught by the Marvels. A voice from inside identifies its occupant as Klarz, who discovered a horrific ghoul stowed away aboard the ship. Just then a humanoid green alien and a monstrous alien chasing it emerge from the ship, with the Marvels attacking the hideous monstrosity to protect the other alien. This proves to be a mistake, as when they imprison it and change back to the kids to welcome the other alien to Earth, they see a pile of dead bodies in the spaceship. Feeding stock for the evil Space Ghoul. Before he can add the kids to the menu, Billy manages to hook his gag on a skull's teeth and pull it off. Cap socks the Space Ghoul, and they free Klarz, the hideous alien, having learned a lesson about how appearances can be deceiving.

Appearing in The Marvel Family: "The Marvel Family and the Ghastly Space Ghoul"

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  • Klarz of Aldebaran

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  • The Ghastly Space Ghoul

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  • Dead Space Aliens

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  • Klarz' Rocket-Ship

Trivia

  • Despite the cover, the Space Ghoul isn't green, but grayish. Although, the real Space Ghoul is green though!


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