COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Captain Marvel Adventures 43 Universal
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Grade:
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9.2
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Page Quality:
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CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Crowley Copy
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Certification #:
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0074380011
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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. The other Crowley copy is a 9.0.
(Published) February 1945
(Cover) C.C. Beck
10 page Captain Marvel story
"Captain Marvel Meets Uncle Marvel"
Appearances: Uncle Marvel, Mary Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr.
Script: Otto Binder
Pencils/Inks: C.C. Beck
Mary Marvel visits WHIZ and brings Billy to meet Uncle Dudley. Dudley, who runs Shazam Inc., gets a call from a carnival needing help. Billy and Dudley arrive and immediately have to save a collapsing ferris-wheel. Billy speaks his magic word and Uncle Dudley (who is not a real Marvel) strips his clothes down to a home made costume. The owner thanks them and asks if they can substitute for his trapeze artists.
Later, Dudley and Marvel are doing their trapeze act when Dudley's clumsiness forces Marvel to save him. Meanwhile, a former circus star tries to kill the two by undoing the trapeze ropes but Capt. Marvel simply flies to safety to the delight of the audience. Next, the two are asked to do a strongman and juggling act. Two more disgruntled performers have appeared. One throws a bomb at Uncle Dudley that looks like one of the cannonballs he's juggling but Marvel spots it and flies it into the air to explode harmlessly. The three performers rush Dudley who takes a swing at them but the super fast Capt. Marvel who connects giving the impressions Dudley laid them out. The performers successfully beg for their jobs back and everyone is happy.... uh, they DID try to commit double homicide,
8 page Captain Marvel story
"Captain Marvel Goes Nowhere"
Script: Otto Binder
Pencils/Inks: C.C. Beck?
Billy Batson picks up a strange message on a short wave radio from someone claiming to be King Nobody from nowhere. He tells Billy that to get to nowhere he needs to fly into a black hole in the sky so Billy transforms and travels through the dark tunnel.arriving in the kingdom of nowhere. He finds a battle going on at castle noplace. Capt. Marvel repels the attackers. Later King Nobody explains that the land of Nowhere where banished into nowhere by a fiendish wizard scientist. They can't return through the black hole because it will kill them seeing as they lack Marvel's invulnerability.
Later, Billy begins doing a broadcast to Earth when the attackers from earlier grab him and launch a second attack. The attackers kick king Nobody from his throne. Billy manages to escape and again cleans house restoring King Nobody to his place. Cap then heads back to Earth. The End.
8 page Captain Marvel story
"The Black Spot Gang of Chicago, Illinois"
Script: Otto Binder
Pencils/Inks: C.C. Beck?
City story: Chicago, IL
Billy is taken on a tour of Chicago when his guide is shown a threatening letter from the "Black Spot Gang" by a fellow named Henry Kennedy. Billy changes to Capt. Marvel and begins following Kennedy to watch for any danger.. He saves Kennedy from a hail of fire but the car escapes. Billy goes to meet a local radio personality and discovers he's also received a threat from the same gang. In fact threats are poring in across the city. Even Billy gets a later. He chases down the man who delivered the letter as Capt. Marvel but the man manages to escape but hilariously Cap notices that each of the threatening letters has the name of the printing company printed on it. The printer gives up the address of the Black Spot Gang. He arrives at their hideout but they hit the lights and escape.
The next day the city is blanketed with threatening notes dropped from an airplane. The pilot claims to not be a member of the gang and Cap lets him go and decides to go to the place where the threatening later has ordered everyone to go. He's led back to the hideout he visited before and sees a group of gang members filing out. Cap starts knocking them around but discovers it was all a publicity stunt for a new nightclub. Billy is left convinced that Chicago's mob days are a thing of the past.
8 page Captain Marvel story
"The Monster Society of Evil Ch. 22:Mister Mind Loses His Mind"
Appearances: Mr. Mind, Herkimer
Script: Otto Binder
Pencils/Inks: C.C. Beck
Reprinted: Monster Society of Evil, The (Hawk Books, 1989 series) #1
The story opens with Billy being knocked out by a man in a criminal mask causing Mr. Mind to drop from his pocked and bonk his own tiny head. The crook wants Billy's meat rations and when he pulls Billy's gag down the boy speaks his magic word. Capt. Marvel punches out the crook but when Mr. Mind awakens he's suddenly quite nice. Seems the blow to the head has given Mr. Mind amnesia. Mr. Mind is horrified when Cap tells him he's the most evil being in the universe. Cap is thrilled to see Mr. Mind is no longer evil and takes him to WHIZ to inform the world. Mr. Mind gets on the radio and begs forgiveness promising to work side by side with Capt. Marvel to fight evil.
The Monster Society of Evil hears Mr. Minds announcement and Herkimer is elected leader with his first order being to kill Mr. Mind. Adorably, Mr. Mind has actually taken to sleeping on Billy Batson's pillow at night. A trio of alligator men sneak in Billy's room and attempt to smash Mind with a mallet but the boy transforms and saves Mr. Mind but the villains escape. Mr, Mind vows to help capture the evildoers.
Herkimer decides to continue with Mr. Mind's evil plans and carries a machine up to an observatory. He uses the machine to pull an asteroid out of orbit to smash earth but Billy spots it before it strikes. Mr. Mind vaguely remembers something about an observatory so Capt. Marvel heads to Hill Observatory. He punches out Herkimer, destroys the machine and smashes the asteroid.
Back on Earth, Herkimer smacks Mr. Mind and the blow and the blow restore his evil memory. When Cap returns he finds an angry letter from Mr. Mind confirming he's back to his nasty ways.
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