COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Captain Marvel Adventures 37 Universal
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Grade:
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9.0
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Page Quality:
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CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
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Certification #:
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1039684001
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Owner:
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David Swan1
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Currently Tied as the Highest Graded Copy of this Issue
(Published) July 1944
(Cover) C.C. Beck
10 page Captain Marvel story
"His Battle of the Bubbles"
Script: Otto Binder
Pencils/Inks: C.C. Beck
City story: Cincinnati, Ohio
Billy Batson is visiting Cincinnati when he spots an old man on his porch blowing bubbles. The man claims he has created hard bubbles that last hours. Billy is unimpressed but the local kids gather around and receive boxes of his special soap and soon the town is filled with bubbles. One flies in a window at a radio station Billy is visiting and hits him in the head with a "clonk". The bubbles then start popping in dangerous explosions. Cap flies around protecting people from the explosive bubbles. He tries to convince some boys to stop blowing the dangerous bubbles but when that fails he inexplicably transforms to Billy and manages to get himself caught in a giant bubble. Worse, the bubble is soundproof so he can't even say his magic word. A lucky rainstorm dissolves the bubble and he's able to change back to Capt. Marvel.
Back at the bubble inventors house, the old man left his air compressor on and a giant bubble is being blown. Cap spots the bubble as it menaces Crosley Stadium, home of the Cincinnati Reds. He punches the bubble up into the air popping it. When he returns to the old man who created the bubbles it turns out he's out of soap and never wrote down the formula so all is good.
9 page Captain Marvel story
"The Visitors From Space"
Appearance: Mary Marvel
Script: Otto Binder
Pencils/Inks: Pete Costanza?
A pair of aliens have come to Earth to brazenly collect item for example the clothes right off a guys back. Billy Batson and Mary Marvel are walking through the park when they spot the man in his t-shirt and boxers and he tells them he was attacked by monsters from Mars. The two transform and fly off to investigate. They come across the aliens and smash the two of them in the face almost immediately only to find out they have indestructible fields protecting them. Capt. Marvel is knocked on his rear by a power ray and the aliens speed to continue collecting.
Later, Billy Batson is giving a broadcast warning about the aliens when they show up snatching Billy to add to their collection. The pop him into a sound proof bottle preventing him from speaking his magic word. Mat Marvel discovers Billy's kidnapping, tracks him down and releases him and then she and Capt. Marvel head off to take care of the aliens. The locate the aliens and Cap grabs one by the ankles and slams him to the ground with no more success than previously. Changing tactics Cap and Mary decide to reason with the aliens and discover they are carrying bags off pure gold in their spaceship. Marvel is offended that they are trying to buy the items that they collected but the aliens point out how primitive humans are with wars and violence and Cap decides maybe buying the items isn't such a crime. Everyone shakes hands and they aliens leave Earth. The story closes with Mary plugging her own WOW comics.
8 page Captain Marvel story
"Trouble With Mr. Double"
Script: Otto Binder
Pencils/Inks: Pete Costanza?
Billy is hat shopping and sees two identical hats when a voice behind suggests the person wants both. Billy turns around angry at the person's greed and comes face to face with a two headed man named Mike and Ike. Billy asks if they are part of a freak show and Mike replies by smacking the boy. He transforms into Capt. Marvel and punches out Ike but Mike is still awake and walks away while issuing a threat.
Later, Mike wants revenge but Ike just wants to get a job but they get rejected for their freakishness. They hear Billy on the radio basically mocking them. In response they kidnap Billy and tie him up with a gag. Mr. Double disagrees on whether to harm Billy but in the end they decide to pull a hold up job. After they leave, Billy manages to get loose. When they try a stick up their victim passes out from fright and Cap shows up and punches both in the face. Mike and Ike both blame the other for becoming a criminal. Cap can't arrest just one so instead of taking him to jail he gets him a job answering phones at Union Station since he can do double the work. Problem solved.
8 page Captain Marvel story
"The Monster Society of Evil Ch. 16:Earth Must Die"
Appearances: Mr. Mind, Jeepers, the Sub-Americans
Script: Otto Binder
Pencils/Inks: C.C. Beck
Reprinted: Monster Society of Evil, The (Hawk Books, 1989 series) #1
Capt. Marvel is stuck sitting on a volcano, literally holding back the eruption with his butt. SIr William crawls from his wrecked castle and Cap asks him to get some help plugging up the volcano. They are successful and Marvel is back on the trail of Mr. Mind and the humanoid bat, Jeepers.
Meanwhile, Jeepers is flying Mr. Mind to a massive cavern where other humanoid bats used to live before they all died. Capt. Marvel follows and comes across an underground city filled with little people who immediately pelt him with rocks. He changes back to Billy because... y'know... wisdom of Solomon. The little people stop attacking and tell Billy they are Sub Americans, basically Colonial Era Americans who decided to live underground. They already know about the Monster Society and Hitler because they have radio. The tiny colonialists have created a bomb capable of splitting the Earth in half lest the Axis win the war but with the Axis losing they decide to remove the fuse in a ceremony later.
Jeepers and Mr. Mind were close enough to hear. They capture Billy and quickly light the fuse but Billy bites Jeepers and transforms to Capt. Marvel. He punches out Jeepers and starts ripping into the Earth to reach the fuse. He snuffs it out but lava starts pouring in the hole he created threatening to ignite the massive explosive pile. Continued next month.
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