Captain Marvel Adventures, #42
Published: January 1945
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Issue Contents:
Season's Greetings
Credits
- Pencils: C. C. Beck
- Inks: C. C. Beck
Captain Marvel in St. Paul, Minnesota
"Ulps! Captain Marvel!"
Storyline
George Hammond has invented a camera that can take pictures from the future, and dishonest photographer Slick Fokus plans a bank robbery for a time when he learns from Hammond's camera that Captain Marvel and most of the city will be on the other side of town.
Credits
- Pencils: C. C. Beck (uncertain)
- Inks: C. C. Beck (uncertain)
Story Notes
City story: St. Paul, MN Mayor McDonough, Tschida, Carlson, and Henderson were all real-life citizens of St. Paul.
"I have to see th' dentist right away - there's no time to lose!!"
Storyline
Captain Kid barges into a dentist's office and demands to have a tooth pulled - not from his mouth, but from his friend's.
Credits
- Pencils: Al Liederman
- Inks: Al Liederman
Thirty Fathom Courage
"The squat diving tug, Neptune..."
Credits
- Script:
Race with Death!
Credits
- Pencils: Creig Flessel
- Inks: Creig Flessel
Captain Marvel In the World of If
"I'm too tired to yell..."
Storyline
Professor Putter has invented a machine that can predict different possibilities, but his assistant turns out to be a Nazi spy who wants to know what would happen if Captain Marvel joined Hitler. Even worse, that future seems to be coming true!
Credits
- Script: Otto Binder
In Union There Is Strength!
Story Notes
Captain Marvel Club membership form.
He's Up at the Crack of His Back!
Credits
- Script: George Marko
- Pencils: George Marko
- Inks: George Marko
Story Notes
wordless strip
"Gee, Danny, you look worried!"
Credits
- Script: George Marko
- Pencils: George Marko
- Inks: George Marko
"Look! That tree right across the road!"
Credits
- Pencils: Al Plastino
- Inks: Al Plastino
The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 21: The Unholy Hydra!
"The last chapter closed as Captain Marvel was wrecking the plant..."
Storyline
Mr. Mind creates a new monster that grows a new head whenever one is cut off. Captain Marvel manages to turn the heads against each other, then captures Mr. Mind, but a masked stranger enters and knocks Billy out.
Credits
- Script: Otto Binder
- Pencils: C. C. Beck
- Inks: C. C. Beck
Paper Packs a Punch!
Credits
- Pencils: Marc Swayze
- Inks: Marc Swayze
Story Notes
Art was previously credited to C. C. Beck ?
Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.
Captain Marvel and the Plot Against Christmas
"I'll not stand for that tree in my house..."
Storyline
Billy meets brothers Happy and Jolly Smith, who want to give toys from their factory to the children at the Creedmore Orphanage, but their miserly older brother Gouge refuses to consider it. It's up to Captain Marvel to persuade Gouge to change his mind so that the orphans can have a merry Christmas.
Credits
- Pencils: Pete Costanza (uncertain)
- Inks: Pete Costanza (uncertain)