Captain Marvel Swan
Captain Marvel Adventures 105
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Captain Marvel Adventures 105 Universal
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Grade:
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9.2
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0719035012
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Owner:
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David Swan1
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Currently the Highest Graded Copy of this Issue and one of only four graded comics. The two 9.0's are both Crowley copies. Yeah, my non pedigree beats two Crowley copies.
(Published) February 1950
(Cover) C.C. Beck
8 page Captain Marvel story
"The Perhistoric Peril"
(Script) Otto Binder
(Pencils) C.C. Beck
(Inks) Pete Costanza?
Billy Batson goes on a guided wilderness tour with a group of men who are attacked by a dinosaur. Captain Marvel takes care of the beast but later the men drink some strange water and transform into prehistoric cavemen. Cap knocks them out and discovers they drank from the 'Fountain of Primeval Youth'. This is also the source of the dinosaurs. Captain Marvel looks for a antidote, meanwhile the tour guide decides that living cavemen can make him a lot of money and decides to hide them. Billy tests out Cap's antidote by drinking the water but before he can take the antidote the guide smacks it from his hands leaving Billy a dull witted caveman. When a pterodactyl attacks the guide longs for an appearance by Captain Marvel which jobs Billy's memory and he changes into his powerful alter ego. Cap punches out the dinosaur and the guide and seals up the fountain.
4 page Captain Kid story
"The "Build-Up
(Pencils and Inks) Al Liederman?
2 page Jon Jarl text story
"The Space Beachcomber"
(Script) Otto Binder [as Eando Binder]
6 page Captain Marvel story
"Captain Marvel, Dogcatcher"
(Script) Otto Binder
(Pencils/Inks) C.C. Beck
Captain Marvel is invited to play the flute at the dog lovers concert. One mission of the concert is to create a petition to 'oust the cruel dogcatcher' but the dogcatcher hatches a scheme to spoil the concert. He replaces Cap's flute with one that is essentially a dog whistle and it calls all the stray dogs in town. The evil dogcatcher is spotted in the mayhem and Cap knocks him out before he gets fired. Captain Marvel is then made the dogcatcher and he rounds up all the stray dogs in a van. The evil dogcatcher releases the dogs but Cap uses the dog whistle to round them up again. Feeling bad Captain Marvel changes back to Billy in order to broadcast a plea to people to adopt the dogs but he's captured by the evil dogcatcher and thrown in the dogcatcher van to be mauled to death. Instead the dogs lick off his gag allowing him to change and capture the evil dogcatcher. Billy then broadcasts to have children come to adopt the dogs and everything ends up well.
7 page Captain Marvel story
"The Threat of the Giant Tree"
(Script) Otto Binder
(Pencils) C.C. Beck
(Inks) Pete Costanza?
A boy named Johnny Greenleaf arrives in town and plants a seed while Billy Batson and Mr. Morris watch. The seed instantly sprouts and Johnny claims that by the next day the tree will be full grown. Unfortunately the next day the tree is more than full grown, it's overgrown and becoming a menace. He rescues the city from an enormous branch that breaks off and heads off to find Greeleaf. Johnny is obliviously planting more seeds but gets conked on the head by a crook who steals his seeds to create giant lumber trees. Cap instantly catches the guy and destroys the rest of the seeds but the original tree is now so large it's blocking air traffic. Seeing the danger Johnny tells Cap where the other trees are he planted and they're all ripped from the ground. The crook from earlier uses uses a bulldozer to knock over the giant tree hoping he'll be hired to remove the lumber but it threatens to destroy buildings. Cap catches the enormous tree while Johnny redeems himself by catching the crook. Turns out the trees were too soft to be used for lumber anyway.
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