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Captain Marvel Adventures
Captain Marvel Adventures #1
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April 26, 2026
[UNTITLED] starts with Billy Batson getting a radio call at his radio station from Saturn. They are hoping that another planet can free them from slavery.
What a rotten thing…. human. Beings on the planet Saturn, being worked to death by monsters.
Captain Marvel takes a rocket ship that he acquired in a previous adventure to Saturn.
Where does he keep it exactly?
The Dragon Men who rule Saturn see the Captain coming. They blast him with a death ray. This causes death to the Captain’s rocket ship but he falls out and uses his cape as a parachute.
Through the puffy white clouds of Saturn.
The Captain lands and punches a Dragon Man. Several other Dragon Man are upset by this and coming running to their friend’s aid. Diplomat to the stars, the Captain tries to calm things down.
You aren’t tough, your just ugly.
Realizes that he won’t learn much about the slaves with all the Dragon Men unconscious, he changes to Billy.
Some Dragon Men see him and assume he is an escaped slave. They throw him in the dungeon while they go looking for the Defiant Battler in Red.
Among the slaves an old man explains that the Dragon Men are from a world beyond the stars.
Which stars? Can you be more specific?
Old man Hargo explains that he the last of the scientists of his race. He built a radio to send out a warning to other worlds. Billy says he got the message and flew here.
Hargo is disappointed that it is just a child, but Billy says he can fix that. And does. The Captain tells. them they can all take part in the overthrow of the Dragon Men. Ghoppo however seeks favor and rushes to tell the Dragon Men what’s happened. The Dragon Men almost shoot him.
Please, mighty one, I bear news for the captain.
About the Captain.
The Dragon Men surround the slaves and demand they hand over the Captain. The Captain comes out and they attack. Their heat guns don’t hurt the Captain but a paralysis ray works. He is taken to the really large King of the Dragon Men who tells the executioner to cut him in two.
The axe does not work so they bury him in super concrete.
Meanwhile the slaves are whipped and forced back to work.
Forward, vile slaves…work to earn your wretched food!
They also reward Ghoppo for his treacherousness.
You need not work today…. and this, the fairest of the slaves, shall be your mate.
But she would rather die than marry Ghoppo!
I’m not sure she understands the reward….
Interviewing the Captain he freely tell the that he is the strongest fighter among them.
(facepalm)
But the Captain changes to Billy Batson to escape his concrete encasement. The smaller Billy easily wiggles free.
I didn’t know that even this early in Captain Marvel’s career they thought of things like this.
Captain Marvel then heads back to the slaves to interfere with Ghoppo’s martial relations. He sends Ghoppo running back to the Dragon Men to tell them that Captain Marvel has escaped. Which he does.
But Captain Marvel sneaks back into captivity by changing sizes from Billy to the Captain. The Dragon Man Ruler sees that the Captain is still encased and assumes Ghoppo lied. It doesn’t end well for Ghoppo
As they ready the ship to invade Earth, the Captain flies to the giant Ruler lizard and shoots him with his own paralysis gun. He then uses the Rulers body as a puppet to tell all of the Dragon-Men to come to the palace. Which they do.
The Captain then goes to free the slaves who are only lightly guarded. The slaves run to get weapons. The Captain leads the Slave army to the palace where the Ruler and the entire Dragon-Man army is.
The Ruler throws a bomb at the Captain and he throws it back with deadly accuracy.
The Captain leaves Saturn in the hands of its new rulers.
Well, sure it was a little unsophisticated, but honestly the art was terrific. And I’m glad Saturn now has a parliamentary system.
4 stars
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