Captain Marvel Adventures #36

(June 1944)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

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Capt. Marvel and the St. Louis Cup (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

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C. C. Beck ?

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Dizzy Dean

Indexer Notes

City story: St. Louis, MO

This is Serious! (Table of Contents: 3)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

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superhero

Indexer Notes

PSA for collecting waste paper.

Captain Marvel and the Mystery of "Lost River" (Table of Contents: 4)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

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C. C. Beck; C. C. Beck Shop

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C. C. Beck; C. C. Beck Shop

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superhero

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Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Steamboat Bill; Sterling Morris

Synopsis

By a weird trick of fate, the water from the Lost River changes Billy into a wild animal, but gives Steamboat remarkable intelligence!

Keywords

Station W.H.I.Z.

Indexer Notes

Art revisions by Craig Delich, per P. C. Hamerlinck in Alter Ego #145 (March 2017).

Missing Face Contest No. 1 (Table of Contents: 5)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / activity / 1 page (report information)

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C. C. Beck ?

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superhero

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Mystery Murderer (first appearance, villain)

Indexer Notes

contest

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Sergeant Sandy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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You don't have any trouble bossing your men around!

Genre

humor; military

The One-Man Transportation System (Table of Contents: 7)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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C. C. Beck ?

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C. C. Beck ?

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superhero

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Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Steamboat

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Dopey Danny Dee / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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George Marko

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George Marko

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Didn't you come to my shirt factory yesterday and beg me for a job?

Genre

humor

Bombs Over London (Table of Contents: 9)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

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Gary Brown

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typeset

Genre

war

The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 15: The Vicious Volcano! (Table of Contents: 10)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Otto Binder

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C. C. Beck

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C. C. Beck

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superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [also appears as Billy Batson]; Mr. Mind (villain); Jeepers (first appearance, villain); Sir William Cherrypit

Synopsis

Captain Marvel tracks Mr. Mind to an English castle, where the owner offers his help. However, the butler is a member of the Monster Society who has helped Mr. Mind construct a giant drill that burrows into the earth to release a flood of lava and Captain Marvel can only stop it by sitting on the new volcano.

Reprints

• in The Monster Society of Evil (Hawk Books, 1989 series) (1989)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1679 - The Complete Original Monster Society of Evil ([January] 2018)

Keywords

castles; England; monsters; volcanoes