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Revision as of 06:46, 19 December 2014
MARVELOUS! First prize to the one who brings me Captain Marvel, broken in defeat. Maybe now your mother will take me back. 
The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures #1 is an issue of the series The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 2014. It was published on December 17, 2013.
Synopsis for "Captain Marvel and The Day That NEVER Was!"
It is a moment of peace in the Rock of Eternity, as the Wizard Shazam reviews the cosmic calendar while practicing his "omniscient narrator" voice. Both of these actions come to an end when he notices a new day, wedged between Thursday and Friday - "Sivanaday". Wondering what this could mean, he is thrown from his seat when the Rock of Eternity is attacked - by a second structure, a larger mechanical replica of the Rock of Eternity.
Inside this second Rock of Eternity, we see criminal savant Theodore Sivana, who believes he has worked out a way to replicate the powers of the Marvel Family. On his command, his children shout his name, "Sivana!", and are transformed into costumed superhumans. Gloating, Sivana sends them to attack the Marvels.
In downtown Fawcett City, ten-year-old Whiz Media reporter Billy Batson is reporting on the timequakes that are bringing temporal anomalies into the city. From Whiz HQ, his boss gloats... only to react with glee when a second Billy Batson appears on the screen, holding a crystal. Introducing himself as coming from the future, the newcomer tells the present to "look at the clock" and says that Captain Marvel is in danger on this eighth, impossible day.
The Sivana Family show up, gloating that they will crush Billy Batson for his cleverness, but Billy is able to pull a trick on them, giving himself time to become his secret identity - Captain Marvel! Sending out a supersonic whistle, he simultaneously stuns his foes and alerts his allies.
At the artificial Rock of Eternity, Sivana peruses a copy of Conquerors of the Counter-World. While he is critical of its portrayal of scientists as cackling madmen, it gave him an idea - to reach across reality, and make contact with his counterparts on other worlds. Now in contact via interdimensional video-chat, they will fulfill a plan to take over reality. The assembled legion of Sivanas all begin cackling with glee.
Walking into the main hall of the Rock of Eternity, Sivana muses that if his counterparts are like him, they will all try to betray him. He waves this aside, focusing on his long-term plan: to use suspendium, "artificial time", mined from the Rock of Eternity to create an eternal empire. As Sivana's robot servants turn the hall into a cubicle farm, Shazam, who has been caught and caged, argues that by mining the unknowable heart of the Rock of Eternity but replacing it with rote, predictable machinery, they will render life useless. Sivana isn't listening, already considering the possibility of selling time to people who have wasted their lives so that they could waste even more time.
Shazam wonders where Sivana got enough suspendium to create an artificial day, and Sivana explains that it was gifted to him by his counterparts as part of his plan to take over the universe. As part of that plan, Sivana needs to tap directly into the power of the Wizard, and takes his staff.
In Fawcett City, Captain Marvel faces the Sivana Family, whose members have power, but no tactics. Theodore, Jr. and Georgia are briefly able to overpower him, but the arrival of Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel, Jr. distracts them enough that the hero is able to throw them away with a mini-tornado. This gives Mary and Junior the time to save people from Magnificus.
Georgia gets into an argument with Mary Marvel about who is prettier. Mary Marvel refuses to be drawn in, but Junior warms to her, asking her who she is. Flattered, she introduces herself as Georgia Sivana - but the magic lightning strikes her as she realises her mistakes, and her powers are taken away. Working fast, Junior and Mary construct a muzzle from a nearby piece of metal, preventing her from changing back.
Magnificus, the last Sivana standing, gloats that this fight was a distraction, and that Theodore Sivana has freed the Monster Society as another obstacle. Now Theodore Sivana can conquer the multiverse. However, the sudden arrival of Captain Marvel's friends, the Lieutenant Marvels, armed for monster-hunting, turns the tide again, and Captain Marvel leaves to get to the Rock of Eternity and stop his enemy. Flying at top speed, Captain Marvel races to the abandoned subway station where he first met the wizard, and flies through a special bricked-up wall...
...briefly encountering an infinite space filled with magical trains that will take small boys to the Rock of Eternity...
... before emerging in the main spacedock of Sivana's Artificial Rock of Eternity, ready to beat up all the robots.
In his throneroom, Sivan is still in conference with his counterparts. He explains that with their suspendium, he was able to construct the perfect artificial day - Sivanaday, a day when his children have powers and Captain Marvel cannot possibly win. Only two of the Sivanas show anything other than glee - a square-jawed Sivana who seems surprised that all his counterparts are criminals, and a blood-spattered Sivana who seems strangely excited by the prospect of meeting Mary Marvel.
Captain Marvel defeats the robots and bursts into Sivana's throneroom just as Sivana perfects the equation that empowered his children. Shouting "Sivana!", he is transformed into Black Sivana - a fearsome superhuman with the strength of fundamental atomic forces, the speed of photons, and no extra wisdom. He claims to stand for the primacy of science over magic, but Captain Marvel insists that the two are simply different sides of the same drive to learn more about the universe.
Stunning the villain by changing back into Billy Batson, the hero notices a piece of mined suspendium nearby which is the crystal held by the second Billy. Putting it together, he grabs the crystal and gives the warning to his past self to "look at the clock", before he is forced to turn back into Captain Marvel by the recovering Black Sivana.
The villain gloats that he has beaten Captain Marvel, but the Captain explains that he worked it out. Sivana was planning to short his counterparts on the precious suspendium - and they have already shorted him. There was not enough suspendium for a full day, so Sivanaday, the custom-built trap, was only 8 hours long. Reverting to his human self, Sivana curses his alternate selves. One by one, the screens go off as the Sivanas get away. The last is the blood-spattered Sivana, who says he'll be back for Mary Marvel.
In Fawcett City, the clocks are striking for dawn, as the heroes rest. Captain Marvel explains to his friends that Sivana got the idea for his grand scheme from a comic book. Junior recognises it as the last issue of Society of Super-Heroes, a book that just got cancelled: inside is a message declaring "I'LL GET OUT AND DESTROY EVERYTHING!" Captain Marvel muses that he's unsurprised that the series was cancelled, wondering what happened to stories with happy endings. Seeing the message, Captain Marvel laughs and crumples up the book, declaring the mystery of that is an adventure for another day, as he, Mary and Jr. fly off smiling into the sky.
Appearing in "Captain Marvel and The Day That NEVER Was!"
Featured Characters:
- Captain Marvel (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Captain Marvel, Jr. (First appearance)
- Mary Marvel (First appearance)
- Lieutenant Marvels
- Dudley Marvel
- Tawky Tawny
- William "Fat Marvel" Batson
- William "Hill Marvel" Batson
- William "Tall Marvel" Batson
- Shazam
- Sterling Morris (First appearance)
Villains:
- Doctor Sivana (First appearance)
- Sivana Family
- Magnificus Sivana (First appearance)
- Thaddeus Sivana, Jr. (First appearance)
- Georgia Sivana (First appearance)
- The Legion of Sivanas (First appearance)
- Monster Society of Evil (First appearance)
- Crocodile Man (First appearance)
- Mister Atom (First appearance)
- Mister Mind (First appearance)
- Oom (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Seven Deadly Enemies of Man
- Society of Super-Heroes (Eart 20) (In a photograph only)
Locations:
Concepts:
Items:
Vehicles:
See Also
- Cover gallery for the The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures series
- Images from The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures Vol 1 1