Whiz Comics #125 is an issue of the series Whiz Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1950.
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Olympic Games of the Gods!"
A severe storm strikes the city, but when Billy tries to change to use his powers to help with all the damage, nothing happens until he's called his word several times. Strangely, Zeus is having some kind of throwing competition and doesn't want to be interrupted, until Mercury convinces him it might be important. Soon a meteor falls toward the city too, but in catching it Captain Marvel realizes it's actually the wheel of an ancient chariot. He flies to Mount Olympus where Shazam explains that the elders who empower Cap are playing in a divine Olympics. Every thousand years they have a contest against a coalition of dark gods, and the winners will oversee Earth for the next thousand years. It's worse than just infernal powers replacing Shazam's elders, though: since he embodies all of Shazam's allies, if they lose and are exiled, Captain Marvel will have to go with them and can't protect Earth anymore.
The Elders have all given up since they haven't won a single event, but Captain Marvel agrees to compete for them in the rest of the events against Mars and his cronies. He does well, such as by racing the Centaur over a mountain, and then using his strength to bash through the mountain and getting ahead, and using super-breath to win a boat race when Neptune denies his sail any wind. The score's tied for the final event, a gladiator match. Since Captain Marvel's whipped them one by one, none of the evil gods wants to get into a fight with him. Mars has the brilliant idea to combine those gods' names into a magic word like "Shazam", VCTMAN, and transforms into a giant. Captain Marvel still outdoes the empowered Mars, because the powers of peace are stronger than the powers of war, which he uses to beat the bejeezus out of Mars.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Captain Marvel and The Olympic Games of the Gods!"
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Synopsis for Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: "The Script Saps"
Korny becomes the Story Editor at Acme Publishing Co. and Col. Corn tries to sell him a script. Korny soon grows tired of his ridiculous ideas and resolves to beat all the teeth out of his head so he'll stop talking.
Appearing in Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: "The Script Saps"
Featured Characters:
- Colonel Corn
- Korny Kobb
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Locations:
- Acme Publishing Company
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Synopsis for Golden Arrow: "Mountain Peak Murder"
Golden Arrow is in the town of Arrowhead visiting his friend Steve Tatim. His son, Red, is hanging out with a local grizzled prospector named "Bully," who everyone thinks is crazy because there isn't gold in them there hills. Bully is sad to say that Red fell into a crevasse and is presumed dead. That night, Steve goes to Mt. Delanni to retrieve his son's body, where Bully later meets them. He slips on a mild slope and checks Steve into the crevasse, but Golden Arrow fires a line down for him to grab. They head down and find Red's body, but discover that he's been shot in the back. Bully reveals from a vantage point that he did find gold, but he wasn't willing to split it with Red. Now, he intends to shoot them both to keep the gold for himself and get away with murder, but Golden Arrow shoots the rifle out of his hands with an arrow. Bully retreats and finds a narrow strip of land for Golden Arrow to cross and tries to start a small avalanche to knock him off the mountain. He manages to fire an arrow in between two rocks to rappel off and land on a far end. Bully mocks him before the ground cracks from under him, sending Bully falling to his death. Golden Arrow later tells Steve that they got "mountain justice" and says that Steve now owns the gold mine!
Appearing in Golden Arrow: "Mountain Peak Murder"
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- Bully, prospector (Dies)
Other Characters:
- Steve Tatim, mountain climber guide
- Red Tatum, prospector (Dies)
Locations:
- Earth-S
- American Old West
- Arrowhead
- Mt. Delanni
- American Old West
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Synopsis for Lance O'Casey: "Dangerous Cargo"
Lance and Mike are picking up some pills for Mrs. Mendago's husband, who works at the UN, since they are going to report on it for The Globe. They get blackjacked by a goon, Boltz, and taken away to his master, war crimnal Herr Slitz. Slitz, a mad scientist, was creating "germ bomb" biological warfare that Lance destroyed during the war as an intelligence officer. Boltz explains that they are bringing pills to Mendago, who is doing work for the UN on Tabago Island. Slitz plans to replace Mendago's pills with the germ bombs, which Lance and Mike hear, since they woke up a second ago, but are playing possum. They lash out for a quick donnybrook and destroy his equipment to make germ bombs. They leave the two war criminals on the Starfish in irons, but Slitz uses a powerful chemical vial to melt the chains so they can escape. Hours later, they break lose and and set a small bomb to go off. They soon sucker-punch Mike and sneak up to brain Lance with a pipe, leaving the Starfish to crash into the reefs off Tabago Lagoon, setting off the bombs in their hold. Mike wakes up, checks a locked door open and finds Lance trying to steer the Starfish away from the reefs while Mike contains the nitro. They figure that Slitz is after Mendago and Lance soon finds Slitz hiding out on the beach and punches him out while Mike runs into town to ambush Boltz. Later, they sail off again, saying they stopped two war criminals and Slitz lost his mind because his germ bomb is now lost forever, but they also still have to deliver all this nitro!
Appearing in Lance O'Casey: "Dangerous Cargo"
Featured Characters:
- Lance O'Casey, "scoop reporter of the seas"
Supporting Characters:
- 1st Mate Mike Bellew
Antagonists:
- Herr Slitz, war criminal, old enemy of O'Casey's
- Boltz, hench lummox
Other Characters:
- Mr. Mendago, U.N. dignitary
Locations:
- Earth-S
- Tabago Lagoon
- Tabago Island
- Tabago Lagoon
Items:
- Slitz' Germ Bombs
- Slitz' Dissolving Vials
- Nitroglycerin
Vehicles:
- The Starfish
Synopsis for Freshman Freddie: "The Prize Package"
Freshman Freddy tells some friends that his mother is sending a care package of food to him, so he’s inviting them to a little party at his room after classes. Ace sneers about how he wasn’t invited, though Stooge tells him he knows why he isn’t getting one. Ace decides to instead just steal the care package directly off of the porch and legs it back to his dorm room with it, eating all the food except for one cookie in the package, which they leave behind to mock Freddy. Freddy immediately pegs Ace and Stooge as having stolen his food and catches them actively trying to eat it, but Ace throws a pie in Freddy’s face. One week later, Freddy is awaiting a new package while a burglar steals a box of pipe pieces off the back of a truck from Bunhill’s Pipe Parts outside Ye Campus Eaterie. The burglar drops the package near the Podunk U dorms and Ace and Stooge are found holding it by a cop chasing after them. They try to claim they were taking it in for Freddy… and find his name isn’t on it and it’s a box full of stolen pipe fixtures. Later, Freddy is called in to testify before a judge that the two bullies certainly never played any tricks on him. From their cell window, Freddy says that they threw a pie in his face and threatened to beat him if he told anyone, so now he’s going home to eat all that nice food from his mother.
Appearing in Freshman Freddie: "The Prize Package"
Featured Characters:
- Freshman Freddie
Supporting Characters:
- Freddie's Mother (Mentioned only)
Antagonists:
- Ace
- Stooge
- Unnamed Pipe Burglar
Other Characters:
- A Cop
- A Judge
Locations:
- Podunk University
- Podunk University Dormitories
- Ye Campus Eaterie
Items
- A Care Package of Baked Goods
- A Second Care Package of Baked Goods
- A Dangerous Package of Stolen Pipe Fixtures
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- A Bunhill's Pipe Parts Van
Synopsis for Ibis the Invincible: "Ibis the Invincible and Davy Jones' Locker!"
300 years ago, Captain Redbeard is killed when his ship's sunk by the royal navy. He finds himself carried to Davy Jones' locker, where Jones quickly puts the old rogue to work for all the evil Redbeard did in his life as a pirate. As the years pass, Redbeard and some of the other former pirates come up with a plan to escape when Jones opens the locker to admit new souls. They capture Jones, escape through the open lid to the surface, and capture a modern cargo ship (as they're already dead, the pirates are unharmed by the gunshots of the ship's defenders). Unfortunately for him, the captain's a friend of Ibis and Taia, and when he's rescued by another boat, he goes straight to the white wizard to report what happened. Ibis magically whisks them to a ship currently being raided only to fall to a blow from behind. Redbeard makes to hang them all from the yardarm, but is distracted when his old pirate ship suddenly sails into view. Ibis magically conjures a wind to blow the pirates to the old ship before it sinks back into the depths. A message appears on the waters that Davy Jones won't let them escape again.
Appearing in Ibis the Invincible: "Ibis the Invincible and Davy Jones' Locker!"
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- Princess Taia
- Captain Ted Lansing
Antagonists:
- Captain Redbeard (Dies) (Resurrected) (Dies)
- his pirate crew (Dies) (Resurrected) (Dies)
Other Characters:
- Davy Jones
- Ted's freighter crew
Locations:
- Earth-S
- Atlantic Ocean
- Davy Jones' Locker
- United States of America
- Atlantic Ocean
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- Redbeard's sloop, the Vulture (Destroyed) (Resurrected) (Destroyed)
- Lansing's freighter, S.S. Crown
- luxury liner, S.S. Matteo (radio report only)
Notes
- Lance O'Casey and Mike Bellew both get knocked unconscious, with a blackjack. Then they both get knocked out again, with a belaying pin.
- Ibis the Invincible gets knocked unconscious, with an antique pistol.
- Also appearing in this issue of Whiz Comics were:
- "The Captain Marvel Club" (bottom 1/3 of last page of this issue's Captain Marvel story)
- "Quiz" (bottom 1/3 of last page of this issue's Golden Arrow story)
- Doc Sorebones: "No Soft-Soap!"
- Wilbur the Waiter: "Slow Retort!"
- The Culture Corner: "How to Butter Your Bread" by Basil Wolverton
- Wicky and O'Shawnessy: "Elephant Ride" (text story) by Rod Reed
- Dude Ranch Dewey
- Moglethorpe the Millionaire: "Expensive Minutes!"
Trivia
- Despite the cover, Captain Marvel doesn't compete in the Lightning Throwing Event and his team loses that event. Instead, he is able to throw a boulder to the nearest star to the Sun, defeating Thor.
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