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| Quotation = You got your big chance. In all time and space, there's one day where you win. On every other day, [[Legion of Sivanas|gentlemen]], you lose just like the last time!
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| Quotation = '''MARVELOUS!''' '''First prize''' to the one who brings me Captain Marvel, '''broken''' in '''defeat'''. <small>Maybe now your mother will take me back.</small>
  
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| Speaker = [[Billy Batson (Earth 5)|Captain Marvel]]
   
 
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| Synopsis1 = 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.
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| Synopsis1 = It is a moment of peace in the [[Rock of Eternity]], as the Wizard [[Shazam (Earth 5)|Shazam]] reviews the cosmic calendar, while practising his "omniscient narrator" voice. His practice comes to an end when he notices with surprise that a new day has been wedged in 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'', large, mechanical replica of the Rock of Eternity.
   
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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.
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Inside this second Rock of Eternity, criminal savant [[Thaddeus Sivana (Earth 5)|Thaddeus Sivana]] 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 super-humans. Gloating, Sivana sends them to attack the Marvels.
   
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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.
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In downtown [[Fawcett City]], ten-year-old Whiz Media reporter [[Billy Batson (Earth 5)|Billy Batson]] is reporting on the timequakes that are bringing temporal anomalies into the city. From Whiz HQ, his boss is filled with glee when a ''second'' Billy Batson appears in the broadcast, holding some crystals. Introducing himself as the future version of Billy, the newcomer tells his present self to warn [[Captain Marvel]] of Sivana's attack on Shazam and the creation of this eighth, impossible day. To help Billy, he offers the clues that he should look at the clock, and the position of the sun.
   
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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.
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The Sivana Family shows up, gloating that they will crush Billy, but using a clever trick, he is able to give himself time to transform into his super-heroic secret identity of Captain Marvel. Letting loose with a supersonic whistle, he simultaneously stuns his foes and calls on his allies, [[Frederick Freeman (Earth 5)|Freddy]] and [[Mary Batson (Earth 5)|Mary]].
   
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At the artificial Rock of Eternity, Sivana peruses a copy of ''[[The Multiversity: The Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter-World Vol 1 1|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.
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On his artificial Rock of Eternity, Sivana peruses a copy of the comic book ''[[The Multiversity: The Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter-World Vol 1 1|Conquerors of the Counter-World]]''. While he is critical of its portrayal of scientists as cackling madmen, it had given him the idea to reach across reality, and make contact with his counterparts in other universes. Now, in contact via interdimensional video-chat, they can fulfill a plan to take over reality. The plan is enough to make the assembled legion of Sivanas all begin to cackle with glee.
   
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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 [[Wikipedia:Cubicle|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.
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Sivana muses that if his counterparts are like him, they will all try to betray him, but remains focused on his long-term plan: to use a mineral called suspendium, mined from the Rock of Eternity to create an eternal empire by commodifying ''time''. As Sivana's robot servants turn the hall into a [[Wikipedia:Cubicle|cubicle farm]], Shazam, who has been caged, argues that by mining the unknowable heart of the Rock of Eternity and replacing it with rote, predictable machinery, they will render life meaningless. Sivana is unmoved, already considering the possibility of ''selling'' time to people who have wasted their lives so that they can waste even ''more'' time.
   
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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.
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Shazam wonders where Sivana had even 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. His plan ''also'' requires that he tap directly into the power of the Wizard, and takes his staff.
   
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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.
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In Fawcett City, Captain Marvel faces the Sivana Family, whose members have power, but lack training. [[Thaddeus Sivana, Jr. (Earth 5)|Thaddeus, Jr.]] and [[Georgia Sivana (Earth 5)|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 Freddy the time to save some citizens from [[Magnificus Sivana (Earth 5)|Magnificus]].
   
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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.
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Georgia gets into an argument with Mary Marvel about who is prettier, but Mary refuses to be drawn in. Georgia calls on Freddy to settle the dispute, and he caters to her vanity, begging to be told the name of the beautiful woman before him. Flattered, she obliges by saying her own name - and consequently calling down the lightning that removes her power - and beauty. Working fast, Freddy and Mary construct a muzzle from a nearby piece of metal, preventing her from changing back.
   
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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...
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Magnificus, the last Sivana standing, gloats that this fight was just a distraction so that his father could free the Monster Society as another deadly threat. In the meantime, Sivana will be able to conquer the multiverse. However, the sudden arrival of Captain Marvel's friends, the [[Lieutenant Marvels]] - armed for monster-hunting - turns the tide again. Reluctantly, Captain Marvel leaves for the Rock of Eternity, leaving his friends to handle the attack on the city. Flying at top speed, he races to the secret gateway back to the Rock of Eternity, hidden in the subway station where he'd first met the wizard Shazam.
   
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Upon arriving, he defeats Sivana's robots and bursts into the throne room, just as Sivana perfects the equation that empowered his children, and uses it on ''himself''. Shouting "Sivana!", he is transformed into Black Sivana - a fearsome superhuman who stands for the primacy of ''science'' over magic. Captain Marvel responds that the Wisdom of Solomon teaches that the two are one and the same, just two sides of the same human coin.
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...briefly encountering an infinite space filled with magical trains that will take small boys to the Rock of Eternity...
  
   
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After stunning the villain by changing back into Billy Batson, the hero notices a cache of mined suspendium nearby, and realizes that he can use it to go back in time and ''warn'' himself. Grabbing a handful, he returns to the past and delivers his warning and the clues that he had himself received earlier - before being forced to return to fighting Black Sivana as Captain Marvel.
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... before emerging in the main spacedock of Sivana's Artificial Rock of Eternity, ready to beat up all the robots.
  
   
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The villain boasts that he has beaten Captain Marvel, but the Captain explains that Sivana's own plan has been turned against him. Sivana was planning to short his counterparts on the precious suspendium - but they have already shorted him. They gave him only enough suspendium for an ''eight hour'' Sivanaday, which is now at an end. They kept the ''rest'' for themselves. As the end of the impossible day causes his formula to stop working, Sivana reverts to his human self, cursing his alternate selves. One by one, the screens go off as the Sivanas abandon him. One among them, an obvious psychotic, remains behind to warn that he ''will'' come back to murder Mary Marvel, with whom he has developed an unhealthy obsession.
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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.
  
   
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Back in Fawcett City, the clocks strike for dawn, and the heroes rest. Captain Marvel explains to his friends that Sivana got the idea for his grand scheme from a comic book. Freddy recognizes it as the last issue of ''Society of Super-Heroes'', a book that just got cancelled. Flipping through it, Captain Marvel muses that he's not surprised, wondering at the death of ''happy'' endings. Captain Marvel laughs and crumples up the book, declaring the mystery of the [[Parallax (Earth 40)|monster]] at its end, is an adventure for ''tomorrow'', as he, Mary and Freddy fly off into the sky, smiling.
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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.
  
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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.
  
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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.
  
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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.
  
   
 
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* {{a|[[Marvel Family (Earth 5)|Marvel Family]]}} {{1st}}
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:* {{a|[[Frederick Freeman (Earth 5)|Captain Marvel, Jr.]]}} {{1st}}
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*** {{a|[[Billy "Hill Marvel" Batson (Earth 5)|Billy "Hill Marvel" Batson]]}} {{1st}}
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* {{a|[[Shazam (Earth 5)|Shazam]]}} {{1st}}
 
* {{a|[[Sterling Morris (Earth 5)|Sterling Morris]]}} {{1st}}
  
* {{a|[[Sterling Morris (Earth 5)|Sterling Morris]]}} {{1st}}
 
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* {{a|[[Thaddeus Sivana (Earth 5)|Doctor Sivana]]}} {{1st}}
  
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* {{a|[[Monster Society of Evil (Earth 5)|Monster Society of Evil]]}} {{1st}}
  
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** A vampire Doctor Sivana from [[Earth 43]]
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** A good Doctor Sivana from [[Earth 3]]
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** A psychopath {{WP|Hannibal Lecter}}-like Doctor Sivana from an unknown Earth
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** An antropomorphic serpent Doctor Sivana from [[Earth 26]]
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** A baby-like Doctor Sivana from [[Earth 42]]
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** A female Doctor Sivana from [[Earth 11]]
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** A black Doctor Sivana from [[Earth 23]]
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** An android Doctor Sivana from an unknown Earth
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** A {{WP|Lucha libre|luchador}} Doctor Sivana from an unknown Earth
 
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* {{a|[[Seven Deadly Sins (Prime Earth)|Seven Deadly Enemies of Man]]}} {{Statue}}
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* {{a|[[Society of Super-Heroes (Earth-20)|Society of Super-Heroes (Earth 20)]]}} {{photo}}
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** {{a|[[Abin Sur (Earth-20)|Green Lantern (Abin Sur)]]}} {{photo}}
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* {{a|[[Rock of Eternity]]}}
  
* {{a|[[Rock of Eternity]]}}
 
* {{a|[[Earth 5]]}}
  
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* {{C|The Multiversity: The Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter-World Vol 1 1}}
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* Among the alternate versions of Sivana that appear in this issue are a female Sivana, a vampire Sivana, a snake-man Sivana, an African-American Sivana, a Luchador Sivana, a baby Sivana, a cannibal Sivana, a punk rock Sivana and an only-slightly-evil Sivana.
 
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* Captain Marvel's response to the bad ending of ''Society of Super-Heroes'' and the source for Sivana's grand scheme is likely a subtle contemporary criticism on darker and grim comic books.
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* The Cliff Chiang variant cover is a homage to {{c|Justice League of America Vol 1 12}}.
 
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Revision as of 10:45, 26 April 2020

"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 practising his "omniscient narrator" voice. His practice comes to an end when he notices with surprise that a new day ha

Quote1 You got your big chance. In all time and space, there's one day where you win. On every other day, gentlemen, you lose just like the last time! Quote2
— Captain Marvel

The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures #1 is an issue of the series The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 2015. It was published on December 17, 2014.

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 practising his "omniscient narrator" voice. His practice comes to an end when he notices with surprise that a new day has been wedged in 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, large, mechanical replica of the Rock of Eternity.

Inside this second Rock of Eternity, criminal savant Thaddeus Sivana 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 super-humans. 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 is filled with glee when a second Billy Batson appears in the broadcast, holding some crystals. Introducing himself as the future version of Billy, the newcomer tells his present self to warn Captain Marvel of Sivana's attack on Shazam and the creation of this eighth, impossible day. To help Billy, he offers the clues that he should look at the clock, and the position of the sun.

The Sivana Family shows up, gloating that they will crush Billy, but using a clever trick, he is able to give himself time to transform into his super-heroic secret identity of Captain Marvel. Letting loose with a supersonic whistle, he simultaneously stuns his foes and calls on his allies, Freddy and Mary.

On his artificial Rock of Eternity, Sivana peruses a copy of the comic book Conquerors of the Counter-World. While he is critical of its portrayal of scientists as cackling madmen, it had given him the idea to reach across reality, and make contact with his counterparts in other universes. Now, in contact via interdimensional video-chat, they can fulfill a plan to take over reality. The plan is enough to make the assembled legion of Sivanas all begin to cackle with glee.

Sivana muses that if his counterparts are like him, they will all try to betray him, but remains focused on his long-term plan: to use a mineral called suspendium, mined from the Rock of Eternity to create an eternal empire by commodifying time. As Sivana's robot servants turn the hall into a cubicle farm, Shazam, who has been caged, argues that by mining the unknowable heart of the Rock of Eternity and replacing it with rote, predictable machinery, they will render life meaningless. Sivana is unmoved, already considering the possibility of selling time to people who have wasted their lives so that they can waste even more time.

Shazam wonders where Sivana had even 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. His plan also requires that he 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 lack training. Thaddeus, 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 Freddy the time to save some citizens from Magnificus.

Georgia gets into an argument with Mary Marvel about who is prettier, but Mary refuses to be drawn in. Georgia calls on Freddy to settle the dispute, and he caters to her vanity, begging to be told the name of the beautiful woman before him. Flattered, she obliges by saying her own name - and consequently calling down the lightning that removes her power - and beauty. Working fast, Freddy 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 just a distraction so that his father could free the Monster Society as another deadly threat. In the meantime, Sivana will be able to conquer the multiverse. However, the sudden arrival of Captain Marvel's friends, the Lieutenant Marvels - armed for monster-hunting - turns the tide again. Reluctantly, Captain Marvel leaves for the Rock of Eternity, leaving his friends to handle the attack on the city. Flying at top speed, he races to the secret gateway back to the Rock of Eternity, hidden in the subway station where he'd first met the wizard Shazam.

Upon arriving, he defeats Sivana's robots and bursts into the throne room, just as Sivana perfects the equation that empowered his children, and uses it on himself. Shouting "Sivana!", he is transformed into Black Sivana - a fearsome superhuman who stands for the primacy of science over magic. Captain Marvel responds that the Wisdom of Solomon teaches that the two are one and the same, just two sides of the same human coin.

After stunning the villain by changing back into Billy Batson, the hero notices a cache of mined suspendium nearby, and realizes that he can use it to go back in time and warn himself. Grabbing a handful, he returns to the past and delivers his warning and the clues that he had himself received earlier - before being forced to return to fighting Black Sivana as Captain Marvel.

The villain boasts that he has beaten Captain Marvel, but the Captain explains that Sivana's own plan has been turned against him. Sivana was planning to short his counterparts on the precious suspendium - but they have already shorted him. They gave him only enough suspendium for an eight hour Sivanaday, which is now at an end. They kept the rest for themselves. As the end of the impossible day causes his formula to stop working, Sivana reverts to his human self, cursing his alternate selves. One by one, the screens go off as the Sivanas abandon him. One among them, an obvious psychotic, remains behind to warn that he will come back to murder Mary Marvel, with whom he has developed an unhealthy obsession.

Back in Fawcett City, the clocks strike for dawn, and the heroes rest. Captain Marvel explains to his friends that Sivana got the idea for his grand scheme from a comic book. Freddy recognizes it as the last issue of Society of Super-Heroes, a book that just got cancelled. Flipping through it, Captain Marvel muses that he's not surprised, wondering at the death of happy endings. Captain Marvel laughs and crumples up the book, declaring the mystery of the monster at its end, is an adventure for tomorrow, as he, Mary and Freddy fly off into the sky, smiling.

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Notes

  • Among the alternate versions of Sivana that appear in this issue are a female Sivana, a vampire Sivana, a snake-man Sivana, an African-American Sivana, a Luchador Sivana, a baby Sivana, a cannibal Sivana, a punk rock Sivana and an only-slightly-evil Sivana.

Trivia

  • Captain Marvel's response to the bad ending of Society of Super-Heroes and the source for Sivana's grand scheme is likely a subtle contemporary criticism on darker and grim comic books.
  • The Cliff Chiang variant cover is a homage to Justice League of America #12.


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