The Marvel Family Vol 1 89

The Marvel Family: "The Marvel Family Fights the Dark Curse"

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The Marvel Family: "The Marvel Family Fights the Dark Curse"

The Marvel Family: "Then There Were None"

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Wendell Crowley

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Poor Billy! He got you, too! You see, the invention I was working on at school after hours was this... lifelike robots! They're covered with flesh-like plastics and look perfectly human! But the real secret is this metallic robot brain,, which is able to absorb all memory from its human counterpart! Thus the robots could think and act just like the people themselves arousing no suspicion! I was going to surprise you with them and confided in the janitor... which was my sad mistake!

— Professor Edgewise, Father of Androids

The Marvel Family #89 is an issue of the series The Marvel Family (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1954.

Synopsis for The Marvel Family: "The Marvel Family Fights the Dark Curse"

An elderly professor goes diving into a sunken temple and recovers an ancient urn, but it warns of a terrible curse that will befall anyone who opens it. The curse seems to hold true when the professor is struck blind, and various disasters befall the crew, but the Marvels are on hand to blunt the damage. Eventually the captain of the ship is revealed to have been behind these "accidents", having used the threat of a curse to throw off suspicion when he tried to escape with a fortune in jewels hidden in his hollow wooden leg. Unfortunately for him, it slows him down as he tries to make an escape, leaving him vulnerable to a sock on the jaw from Captain Marvel.

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Featured Characters:

Marvel Family

Supporting Characters:

Mr. Sterling Morris (Final appearance)

Antagonists:

Emil Shaw (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

Professor Cliffton Drake (Single appearance)
A shark

Locations:

Earth-S
- New York City
  - Station WHIZ-TV (Final appearance)
- Voodah Reef

Items:

Vehicles:

Synopsis for The Marvel Family: "Then There Were None"

The Marvels' begin to disappear beginning with Professor Edgewise. Mary, Billy and Freddy investigate. They set up a sting operation and supposedly recover the whole group but they seem to have amnesia and cannot remember why they disappeared. The Marvel trio then breaks up an attempted robbery and recover stolen jewelry. They ask Mary Marvel to return a necklace to its rightful owner but then they discover the necklace in Mary's room. Mary attacks Freddy and Billy and leaves them tied up. They are carried to an abandoned mill where they discover their real family. Their family at home turns out to be robots that have replaced their real family. The mastermind behind the disappearances is discovered to be Lem Blucher the school Janitor. Blucher is forcing the professor to use his invention to transfer the memories of real people into the brains of the robots. His plan is to kidnap the heads of major corporations and replace them with his robot lookalikes. Blucher decides to dispose of Billy by having his robot lookalike strike him with an ax. When the robot attempts to kill Billy, its arms fall out. Professor Edgewise steps forward and offers to repair the robot. In the meantime, Billy manages to undo his mouth gag and he is able to transform into Captain Marvel. He rescues the Marvel family and they are able to capture Lem Blucher.

Appearing in The Marvel Family: "Then There Were None"