Captain Marvel Adventures - Monster Society of Evil
Chapter 12: The Bombardment of Earth
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Captain Marvel Adventures 33 Universal
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Grade:
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7.5
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Page Quality:
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LIGHT TAN TO OFF-WHITE
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Certification #:
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1053525015
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Owner:
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David Swan1
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
An embarrassingly low grade. There are two 9.4's in existence with one being a Mile High copy. I know where I can get a 9.0 copy but it's not high on my list of priorities.
(Published) March 1944
(Cover) C.C. Beck
12 page Captain Marvel story
"The Omaha Adventure"
City story: Omaha, Neb
Billy is sent to Omaha to do a story on Father Flanagan's Boys Town. When he arrives, an unsuccessful attempt is made on his life. The killer doesn't want Billy to broadcast from Boys Town lest it become more popular than his own "Slicker City" where he teaches crime. He starts canvasing the town with flyers for Slicker City but the Boys Town boys laugh it off.
Billy checks out Slicker City but it's clear that the boys attending had intended to go to Boys Town. The man running the show offers to train them in crime but the boys respond by pummeling him. When he pulls out a gun Billy steps forward but the boys start to pound the man again before Billy transforms and punches him out. The man is sent to jail for attempted murder and the story closes with Billy doing a broadcast promoting Boys Town.
12 page Captain Marvel story
"The Great Stone Face"
Steamboat delivers a coded message to Billy who uses his Capt. Marvel decoder to decipher it's a request for help from someone named Johnny Brown with an address. When Cap arrives he spots someone peeking through a hole and pulls a man named Mr. Gotsum Talentte through the wall. A group of boys, including Johnny Brown, emerge saying they hired Talentte to carve a massive face of Cap on the side of a mountain and they need the hero to pose.
A couple of thugs want the mountain but the owner refuses to sell as he already promised it to the boys. They decide they can't allow the face to be built lest the value of the mountain increase significantly so they hire a rival of Talentte to cause an "accident". The rival cuts Talentte's scaffolding ropes but Capt. a Marvel saves the sculptor. Next, the saboteur messes with Talentte's dynamite to cause it to explode prematurely but it's Cap who picks it up. With no more dynamite Cap decides to help out directly and carve the relief.
The face is finished and hidden to prepare for an unveiling but the rival slips under the tarp and does some alterations. When the canvas drops Cap is shown to have glasses. a red nose and buck teeth. The rival is also under the canvas with a gun and takes a shot at Talentte hitting him in the shoulder. Cap tries to punch the rival but misses and drives himself completely into the mountain. With the sculpture ruined the crook offers $5000 to the mountains owner and he accepts. He's about to sign when Cap reappears and announces that the mountain is filled with bauxite and worth far more that $5000. The crooks are arrested, Talentte vows to carve another face and the U.S. has a huge volume of Bauxite (Aluminium) for the war.
11 page Captain Marvel story
"Executed For Desertion"
Two military policeman show up at Billy's office with an arrest warrant for Capt. Marvel. He goes to the back office and transforms. When he returns the MP's usher him out and he is accused of being a deserter from the army of Ballonia. Cap is put on a ship to Ballonia but when he gets his meal in the ships hold he finds a letter slipped in by a member of the Capt. Marvel club. The club member tells Cap the boy King Zarf has ordered him hung but Cap relates a story of how he saved Zarf's life from drowning but in the process embarrassed one of his assistants by accidentally pushing him into the water. The assistants name is Balderdash and it's clear that HE was the one who tried to kill the King AND is behind Cap being arrested. He appears and kicks the boy who was helping Cap and Marvel busts out of his cell.
Balderdash threatens to add assault and battery to his crimes so Cap allows himself be chained up again. It turns out the Ballonian military uniform looks exactly like Marvels and has so for centuries which is why they claim he deserted. After arriving in Ballonia, Cap is marched through town in disgrace and locked up. Meanwhile, the King, still indebted to Marvel decides to pardon him after the trial. Balderdash kidnaps the judge, install himself as magistrate and after a quick trial sentences Marvel to death.
In prison Cap gets another note explaining that Balderdash is trying to take the king's throne. He allows himself to be hung but predictably that fails as well as an attempted beheading and a cannon shell to the chest. Instead he is simply buried alive. Cap buries his way through the ground and stumbles across the judge and cabin boy from earlier, both locked in prison. Balderdash tries to murder the king but Marvel busts in and saves the day. The king makes him an honorary general but some question remains whether Marvel IS actually a deserter since his origin is unknown.
8 page Captain Marvel story
"The Monster Society of Evil Ch. 12:The Bombardment of Earth"
(Appearances)Mr. Mind, Smashi
(Script) Otto Binder
(Pencils/Inks) C.C. Beck
(Reprinted) Monster Society of Evil, The (Hawk Books, 1989 series) #1
Previously, Mr. Mind had launched had launched a mile long missile at Russia and pressed the launch button to send a second at America. Capt. Marvel races to try and stop the second missile before it emerges from the ten mile long cannon. Cap wins the race and destroys the projectile in the barrel also destroying the cannon. Marvel is blown into space but returns to find Dr. Smashi dead. Mr. Mind has survived and is captured but he reminds Marvel of the second shell speeding towards Russia. Cap tucks Mr. Mind in his sash and heads off to save Russia.
As Capt. Marvel approaches the missile Mr Mind starts tickling him to try and stop him. The tickling turns out to be much more effective than one might imagine. With two minutes left Cap smacks down on Mr Mind to stop him.
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