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Captain Marvel Adventures, #4

Published: October 31, 1941

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Captain Marvel Adventures #4

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Issue Contents:
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Credits
Sivana's Revenge on the Lieutenant Marvels (1)
Story 1 16 pages superhero

"Once again the Billy Batsons of America jin up..."

Storyline

When Sivana's attempt to run Billy Batson over with a car fails, he orders Batson to be kidnapped and brought to his lair. Unfortunately, the thug sent to accomplish the deed, finds four Billy Batsons at his residence, so the three visiting Billys are taken away, and the real Billy must rescue the Three Lieutenant Marvels from Sivana and his thugs as Captain Marvel.

Characters
  • Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
  • Three Lieutenant Marvels [Fat Billy [Billy Batson]
  • Hill Billy [Billy Batson]
  • Tall Billy [Billy Batson]]
  • Sterling Morris
  • Beautia Sivana
  • Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain)
  • Slug (villain)
  • Joe (villain)
Credits
Story Notes

The Captain Marvel figure on the splash is also found on the cover of the Captain Marvel Thrill Book.

Code of Glory
Story 2 2 pages adventure

"Young Juan Perez huddled over..."

Characters
  • Juan Perez
  • Max
  • Eric
  • Jack Sharum
  • Crespi
The Tunnel of Invasion
Story 3 16 pages superhero

"The world is mine..."

Storyline

Captain Marvel saves a defecting Nazi pilot, who fled to America when Hitler began enslaving people in the European nations. The man tells Cap about a secret Nazi project on the western shore of Europe, and when he investigates, discovers (and later destroys) an invasion tunnel Adolf Hitler is having dug beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

Characters
  • Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
  • The War Lord [Adolf Hitler (villain)]
  • the Nazis (villains)
Credits
Story 4 1 page non-fiction

"That camels roamed American deserts..."

The Secret Submarine Base (1)
Story 5 12 pages superhero

"And then threr was the time Captain Marvel got in a fight with a submarine..."

Storyline

Captain Marvel dresses in civilan clothes to see what is happening around town and runs into an informer, who tells Marvel about a secret Nazi submarine base being established in South America.

Characters
  • Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
  • Sterling Morris
  • Officer Casey
  • un-named informant (death)
  • Gus (cab rider)
  • Butch (cab driver)
  • Mr. Fog (villain, introduction)
  • Baron Von Slugg (villain, introduction)
  • Heinrich (villain)
Credits
Story 6 2 pages humor; children

"Oh boy!"

Characters
  • Chubby
  • Papa
The Lawless Legion
Story 7 15 pages superhero

"Giggy Golton wanted an empire of crime..."

Storyline

Billy is assigned to cover the Giggy Golton trial and witnesses the murder of a top witness against the criminal. When the prosecuting attorney threatens to dig up more evidence against Golton, Captain Marvel must prevent his murder.

Characters
  • Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
  • Sterling Morris
  • Mr. Shaw (prosecutor, introduction)
  • Officer Flynn (introduction, death)
  • Giggy Golton (villain, introduction)
  • Beefy (villain, introduction, reforms)
  • un-named sniper (villain, death)
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