Captain Marvel Adventures - Monster Society of Evil
Chapter 15: The Vicious Volcano
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Captain Marvel Adventures 36 Universal
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Grade:
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9.0
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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1464923016
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Owner:
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David Swan1
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Currently Tied with one other for third
(Published) June 1944
(Cover) C.C. Beck
10 page Captain Marvel story
"The St. Louis Cup"
Pencils/Inks: C.C. Beck
City story: St. Louis, MO
A trio of crooks hide in a fountain when the spot a police cruiser passing by. After the cop leaves they hop out and hide in Union Station. Meanwhile, Billy Batson has arrive in St. Louis. On the way Billy met a man who claims to have an ancient Egyptian cup with magic powers. A doubting reporter tests the cup and orders it to make a man fly and he rises into the air and out a window. Billy transforms and rescues the man but at the same time the crooks try to convince the man with the cup to come with them. A reporter recognizes the crooks and gives Cap time to return but they have already snatched the cup. One of them uses it to wish Cap into a cage and when Marvel disappears he's so surprised that he utters, 'well I'll be a monkey's uncle' and the crook is sent to the monkey cage at the zoo.
Cap flies to The Soldiers Memorial and changes back to Billy while some cops try to nab the crooks. The use the cup to escape but it sends them to the reptile house at the zoo which is the third time the cup has sent someone to the zoo. They head over to Sportsman's Park. Billy is already there meeting the GM of the Cardinals. The crooks steal the box office receipts and then use the cup to start messing with the game. The change the ball to a grapefruit and the bat to rubber. When the two crooks start fighting over the cup the one tells the other to go fly a kite and off he goes. Billy has to transform in order to catch the crook who is left dangling from a kite. Marvel saves the crook but when he returns him to the final thief the cup gets broken. The money is returned and everything is ok.
9 page Captain Marvel story
"The Mystery of Lost River"
Pencils/Inks: C.C. Beck
Mr. Morris asks Billy to join him and Steamboat on a little trip. Billy announces on his radio program that he'll be taking a trip. Some crooks hear Billy's broadcast and try and kidnap Billy while he's preparing for the trip but Billy transforms and chases them off. Steamboat and Billy arrive at the train station and meet Mr. Morris and a couple of other men, one named Pierre. It turns out Pierre has found the legendary Lost River that contains Morrisium-A, a powerful element capable of creating scientific wonders.
Later the train is moving when Billy discovers that the car he's on has become unhooked. Just in time he changes to Capt Marvel and rescues the car and all passengers. It's clear that this was no accident but there are no other incidents on their train ride. After they arrive in Canada they take mules into the mountain but someone attempts to drop a huge bolder on the group. Once again Capt Marvel saves the day and they push on until they arrive at the river. The Morrisium-A has caused the vegetation to grow to enormous size.
Later, Billy is at the camp having a drink of water when someone slips him a glass of Lost River water. Billy starts howling like a beast and runs into the woods. The next day Steamboat rushes in to tell everyone the Lost River has vanished and accidentally gets his own sip of the water. Instead of turning him into an animal he becomes refined. Such is the humor of the mid 40's. Steamboat deduces that the Lost River sprang from an underground spring and has now dried up. Meanwhile, Billy wakes up in the dried river bed and suddenly gets swept up in a flood. The water threatens to drown everyone. Billy changes and rescues the whole crew and the only two who die are the villains. The Lost River disappears and Pierre reveals he was an FBI agent. All the water is gone except one pitcher but that is enough to do considerable good.
8 page Captain Marvel story
"The One-Man Transportation System"
Pencils/Inks: C.C. Beck
Billy tells the story of Tuffy Smith and the dentist. Tuffy doesn't want to go to the dentist but Billy and Steamboat show him how easy it is. Billy goes to the dentist himself and his teeth are so perfect that the dentist makes a cast of them. They leave the office but Tuffy has wandered off to see a movie and vows he won't go to the dentist unless his father tells him to go but his father is off in the military. Billy changes to Capt Marvel and flies to the naval base to get the boys dad and then changes back. Billy locates Lieutenant Smith and he agrees to go back to convince his son to go to the dentist. Billy ends up being unable to change to Capt Marvel for reasons too silly to mention so instead they try to take a plane, then a train and finally a bus. Unfortunately, the bus is a pile of junk and keeps breaking down until the people on board have to get out and push. The bus gets stuck on a train track and Billy has to act fast and stomps down on the foot of a soldier on the bus. Billy gets punched in the face which allows him to speak his magic word and transform. Cap carries the bus out of danger. Lieutenant Smith arrives back home, kisses his wife and tells his son to go to the dentist. Pretty weak story.
8 page Captain Marvel story
"The Monster Society of Evil Ch. 15: The Vicious Volcano"
Appearances: Mr. Mind, Jeepers
Script: Otto Binder
Pencils/Inks: C.C. Beck
Reprinted: Monster Society of Evil, The (Hawk Books, 1989 series) #1
Capt Marvel has trailed Mr Mind to a castle in Scotland. Marvel asks the owner if he can search the castle. Cap finds a radio and decides to do a quick broadcast as Billy Batson. After the broadcast he heads off to bed but hears a noise in the radio room. He picks in and finds a monster sending a message to Mr Mind. He tries to stop the beast but gets punched out. He runs up to tell the owner of the castle and the head out to find the creature but only find Jeepers the butler. It turns out Jeepers is a bat-monster in disguise and he binds and gags Billy. He has a drill to drill into the Earths molten layer and cook England. As always Billy manages to tear his gag off allowing him to transform and give a solid punch to Jeepers. Jeepers and Mr. Mind escape while Marvel takes care of the drill but not before it punches through the Earths crust and creates a volcano. Marvel is forced to sit on the volcano to prevent and eruption and the story ends with him trapped on the top of the volcano.
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