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| A great quartet of stories! Slaughter Slade (with his distinctively slow speech pattern), Dr. Allirog, Butch, and Spider make an interesting quartet of villains in the first story. The second story is a good haunted house mystery with a villain who isn't immediately obvious. The third tale on gambling is the least interesting of the stories in this comic, but still good. We finish off with a great encounter with Sivana, involving fighting destructive weather, a trip to Venus, battling alien monsters, and the ever lovely Beautia. Quite an anthology! |
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| Publication | 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] |
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| Comic Story | The Menace of Dr. Allirog (17 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy is stunned, like the rest of the crowd, when the challenger in the heavyweight boxing match knocks out the champion with one punch. By hook or crook, trying to get an interview, Billy learns the truth behind what happened and is captured by a giant ape who is actually Dr. Allirog, who works for Slaughter Slade. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; unnamed boxing champion; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (cameo); Slaughter Slade (villain, boxer); Butch (villain); Dr. Allirog (villain, scientist, giant gorilla, death); Spider (villain, Allirog's assistant); Professor Universe (villain, master of all knowledge) |
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| Comic Story | The Haunted House (19 pages) |
| Synopsis | In 1890, a recluse millionaire, with his dying breath, informs his servant that no one is to enter this house after his death. Anyone doing so will fall under the dying man's curse that will follow them to their grave. When the man dies, the city wants to take the property on back taxes, tear it down and sell the land, but ghosts haunting the property scare everyone off, except Captain Marvel. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; J. Morton Grood (eccentric bachelor-millionaire, flashback, death); Ricketts (Grood's servant, flashback); Police Chief Noble; Spencer Barnes [aka J. Morton Grood] (villain, town treasurer); Ralph Cole (villain) |
| Notes | Beck, in a page by page anaylsis of this story (printed in Alter Ego #129 (November 2014), specifically states that Parker wrote the story, he (Beck) did the layouts and all figures, while Costanza supplied most of the striking backgrounds. Credits above revised to conform to this statement. |
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| Comic Story | Gamblers of Death (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Risking death, Billy investigates a phantom gambling ring which uses men's lives as chips in a fantastic game of murder for money. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Jack Scott (track athlete); Jose Angelo (track athlete); "Long Shot" Louis Lupo (villain, gambler); unnamed sniper (villain) |
| Notes | Inker revision from Beck to Costanza, per P. C. Hamerlinck, in Alter Ego #126 (July 2014) and added by Craig Delich. According to the article, this story was the FIRST Beck-Costanza art collaboration. |
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| Comic Story | Sivana the Weather Wizard (19 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy seeks to learn why there has been ten times as much damage by tornado, earthquake, hail storms, and floods than the previous year, disasters that threaten to bankrupt American insurance companies. However, when he learns that one company in particular has benefitted greatly from these disasters, Billy smells a rat and it's Captain Marvel who discovers the truth and the man behind it: Sivana! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; unnamed President of the National Insurance Association; Beautia Sivana; Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain); Herman (villain) |
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