Captain Marvel Adventures - City Stories
Mobile, AL
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Captain Marvel Adventures 56 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0008308008
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Owner:
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David Swan1
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
This is the single highest graded copy of this issue.
(Published) March 1946
(Cover) C.C. Beck
12 page Captain Marvel story "Captain Marvel Goes Crazy"
(Script) Otto Binder
(Pencils/Inks) C.C. Beck
At the Evolution Institute scientist are looking at a display showing the evolution of man and trying to come up with a figure that will represent the acme of current evolution and decide Capt. Marvel is the perfect choice. The find Capt. Marvel through Billy Batson and measure him for a statue. The process of measuring and poring plaster takes so long that Cap claims he's going insane and when another scientist enter he finally loses it. Turns out the scientist is Sivana in disguise trying to mentally push Marvel over the edge and after further stoking the fires of insanity Sivana is literally booted from the room. Capt. Marvel literally seems to be cracking up so he transforms to Billy to calm down.
Sivana goes to the Board of Mental Health and tries to convince them that Capt. Marvel is insane but they find his proof insufficient. Later, Cap is invited to see the statue created and it's rather odd in that it partially bones, partially muscle and the rest has lifelike skin. They ask Marvel for one more measurement but Sivana has knocked out the scientist who was to do the measurement and he continues to try and drive Capt. Marvel insane. Marvel chases SIvana around the museum but he escapes and later uses further evidence to convince the Board of Mental Health that Marvel IS insane. They start question Marvel while Sivana slips some itching powder down down hi back. Matvel starts scratching wildly further convincing the board that he's insane and he's committed to an asylum.
While in the asylum, Capt. Marvel simply transforms to Billy and walks out the door. Billy just happens to run across Sivana in disguise and hears his distinctive laugh prompting him to pull off his fake beard. Sivana confesses, problem solved.
9 page Captain Marvel story "The Flower Peril of Mobile, Alabama"
(Script) Otto Binder
(Pencils) C.C. Beck
(Inks) Pete Costanza?
Capt. Marvel arrives in Mobile Alabama where everyone is preparing for the big flower show. Apparently a new super plant food has been created in Mobile and the food is spread across the city. The next morning to, Billy's dismay, Mobile is engulfed in tree sized flowers that threaten the entire city. Cap gets ahold of the plant foods inventor and they travel around the city to the locations where the food was spread. This gives Marvel the chance to visit famous locations around Mobile. The flowers are all cleared out. The inventor ends up winning the flower show, ironically with a very small flower, and he vows to tone down his plant food significantly.
11 page Captain Marvel story "Captain Marvel Gets the Golden Fleece"
(Script) Otto Binder
(Pencils//Inks) C.C. Beck
The story opens on the Cult of the Golden Fleece where a head priest claims to be able to read the thoughts of their golden dog and claims the dog wants golden fleas. The cultists travel to the U.S. to get golden fleas from a famous fleas circus. They steal the fleas but Billy, being close by and hearing the crime transforms to Capt. Marvel. Marvel mistakes fleas for fleece and so heads off to find the legendary Golden Fleece. The cultists jump in a plane with Marvel on their tail but he loses them in a storm. He finds out the plane took off from Greece and so heads off to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
Cap finds the cultists and demands the Golden Fleece but they refuse and he can't find it because they have the golden fleas not the Golden Fleece. So another message is delivered from the golden dog and this time the head cultist says he wants the Golden Fleece (go figure). They go into town and simply steal a Golden Fleece from a fabric store. Marvel spots the cultists and shows up to get back the Golden Fleece but one member runs into the temple. Capt. Marvel begins to search the temple but it's filled with traps which naturally have no effect on the invulnerable skin of Marvel. Capt. Marvel manages to get a robe from a cultist but it's too small so he changes to Billy (why he feels the need to sneak around I don't understand).
Billy spots the Golden Fleece on the golden dog and stupidly walks right up to grab it and gets captured and gagged. They send the golden dog to tear Billy apart but he simply wags his tail and licks off the gag. Billy transforms and cleans house. The cult is ended and Marvel flies back to America to deliver the Golden Fleece to the flea circus owner who denies ownership. Marvel realizes his mistake but discovers the golden fleas have infested the Golden Fleece so all is good in the end.
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