Captain Marvel Adventures, #42

Published: January 1945

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Captain Marvel Adventures #42

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Issue Contents:
Season's Greetings
1.000 pages superhero
Credits
Story 1 1.000 pages
Captain Marvel in St. Paul, Minnesota
Story 2 9.670 pages superhero

"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.

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Story Notes

City story: St. Paul, MN Mayor McDonough, Tschida, Carlson, and Henderson were all real-life citizens of St. Paul.

Story 3 1.000 pages humor

"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.

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Thirty Fathom Courage
Story 4 2.000 pages

"The squat diving tug, Neptune..."

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Race with Death!
Story 5 1.000 pages adventure
Credits
Captain Marvel In the World of If
Story 6 11.330 pages superhero

"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!

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In Union There Is Strength!
Story 7 0.670 pages superhero
Story Notes

Captain Marvel Club membership form.

He's Up at the Crack of His Back!
Story 8 0.500 pages humor
Credits
Story Notes

wordless strip

Story 9 0.500 pages humor

"Gee, Danny, you look worried!"

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Story 10 1.000 pages adventure; superhero

"Look! That tree right across the road!"

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The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 21: The Unholy Hydra!
Story 11 8.000 pages superhero

"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.

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Paper Packs a Punch!
Story 12 0.670 pages superhero
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Story Notes

Art was previously credited to C. C. Beck ?

Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.
Story 13 0.330 pages
Captain Marvel and the Plot Against Christmas
Story 14 8.000 pages superhero

"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.

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