Captain Marvel Adventures #150 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1953.
Synopsis for "Captain Marvel's Wedding"
An evil witch, Theo Hagge, is doing away with employees of the Kleensweep Broom Company, one by one. (She's stashing them in a cave where she has a secret flying-broom factory, in support of her planned upcoming wave of witchery.) Billy Batson finds out about the abductions, and Captain Marvel investigates, just in time to rescue one abducted employee. The witch flees to a remote shack in the countryside, but when Captain Marvel gets there he finds only the pretty young receptionist from the broom factory, tied up and anxious to escape from there. She's afraid to go home, so Marvel carries her to Mrs. Wagner's Boarding House, where his landlady agrees to rent the girl a room right next to Billy Batson's. When the clock starts to strike midnight, the new tenant abruptly shoos both of them out of the room. No sooner are they gone than her true form becomes visible; this is the cackling old witch herself, and she has a plan for dealing with Captain Marvel (whom all witches hate and fear)!
The next evening, Captain Marvel invites the receptionist to attend a play, and she becomes overly romantic towards him, to Marvel's annoyance. This goes on for several more evenings, at cafes and concerts and night clubs, until reports of this seeming romance appear in the newspaper gossip columns. Marvel decides to publicly squelch the rumors on WHIZ, but when he reaches Mr. Morris' office, the receptionist is there ahead of him, having just finalized an arrangement with Morris to televise their upcoming nuptials. Captain Marvel is in a bind! He doesn't want to be a cad or a boor, so he fears he may have to go thru with the wedding!
That night the World's Mightiest Mortal wanders the streets in a daze. Suddenly overhead he spots a witch on a broomstick, flinging a young girl to her death! One flying rescue later, the girl (a stranger) is rescued, and is quite upset that "the old hag is escaping!" Marvel mishears this as "Theo Hagge" is escaping, which just so happens to be the name of his new accidental fiancee. Marvel is befuddled, but Billy has figured out what's going on, and he says Marvel is a big dope! He then sets up a ruse to reveal that Miss Hagge is actually the gnarled witch, who assumes her true form every midnight. He resets the clock in her room to run one hour early, then visits Theo and plays checkers with her until eleven o'clock, which turns out to be twelve o'clock. The witch reappears, but now she has the upper hand! She knocks Billy unconscious and he doesn't wake up until wedding day morning.
At the broadcasting studio, Mr. Morris is directing the caterers and florists and musicians and staff to set up the big and splendid wedding, and wondering where Captain Marvel is. Marvel simply stays away until shortly before the next midnight, and times his arrival so that halfway thru the wedding ceremony, lovely young Theo pops back into her hideous old witch form, in front of lots of witnesses. Thus Captain Marvel can back out of the wedding and not be a heel.
Soon the scheming witch has been taken away by police, and Billy explains to his radio audience what she really was up to.
Appearing in "Captain Marvel's Wedding"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Theo Hagge
Other Characters:
- Tom Evans
- Herman
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Station WHIZ-TV
- Kleensweep Broom Company (Mentioned only)
- Mrs. Wagner's Boarding House
- New York City
Vehicles:
- Flying Broom
Synopsis for Capt. Kid: "The Escaped Lunatic"
A man dashes up to Captain Kid, saying he’s looking for an escaped lunatic who is “short, thin and 350 lbs.” Captain Kid starts to worry that that guy is the escaped lunatic and reports as much when he sees orderlies skulking around the woods looking for him. However, when Captain Kid sees the “lunatic” again coming out of the woods, he tries to pretend he’s an MLB pitcher to distract him into thinking he’s also crazy, but the orderlies appear, having caught the lunatic already and say this man Captain Kid found is the Warden, who now declares Captain Kid is insane and orders him committed. Captain Kid explains himself and they decide to let him go as Captain Kid is relieved he got out of that crazy situation!
Appearing in Capt. Kid: "The Escaped Lunatic"
Featured Characters:
- Captain Kid (Final appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Orderlies from a Mental Hospital
Antagonists:
- A Surly Warden from a Mental Hospital
Other Characters:
- A Lunatic
Locations:
- Earth-S
- Podunk City (Final appearance)
- A Nearby Forest
- Podunk City (Final appearance)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "The World of Too Many Sivanas, Chapter One: I Conquer Africa!"
In the wilds of Africa, Dr. Sivana discovers a rare elements he names Sivanium, and forces locals to dig for more in inhumane conditions. Word soon reaches Billy Batson, but when he transforms and tries to fly to the site to rescue the diggers, he finds a warning engraved in a cliffside by Sivana: he's mined the countryside with "Marvel bombs" that will react to his superhuman energies and blow up Sivana's prisoners if he tries to get close enough to rescue them.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "The World of Too Many Sivanas, Chapter One: I Conquer Africa!"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- Zubula, Africa
Items:
- Sivanium
- Sivana's Long-Range Radar-TV
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "The World of Too Many Sivanas, Chapter Two: I Conquer Billy Batson!"
Marvel changes to Billy so he can sneak into Sivana's camp without setting off the explosives as Captain Marvel. He finds Sivana's map of where all the bombs are placed, and gets the help of one of the diggers to gather them up. Sivana wakes up and catches them in the act, and holds a knife to Billy's throat to finally end his meddling. Billy knows he can't transform, or he'll set off the bombs and kill all of Sivana's prisoners.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "The World of Too Many Sivanas, Chapter Two: I Conquer Billy Batson!"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Thula
Locations:
Items:
- Sivanium Molecular Rearranger
Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "The World of Too Many Sivanas, Chapter Three: I Conquer Captain Marvel!"
Sivana actually doesn't kill Billy, because the climax of his master plan relies on the hero being alive. He places Billy in a glass dome, which the boy escapes by hitting it with the spoon he was given to eat with, creating vibrations that shatter the glass. After making it to the end of Sivana's ad hoc empire and thus being clear of the proximity bombs, Billy transforms and flies after Sivana's rocket ship. The villain sees him coming and confidently predicts he can escape from Marvel by ducking into a crowd. The hero doesn't believe him until he sees the effects of Sivana's new invention, the Molecular Rearranger: it makes everyone else look and think like Sivana. Deeply perturbed by the sight of his nemesis everywhere he looks, Captain Marvel flies away. Changing back to Billy, he sneaks back that night and carries out his earlier plan of digging up all the Marvel bombs so the natives won't be killed by Captain Marvel's presence. Sivana's letting him, however, because that's part of his plan. When the bombs are cleared and Billy can safely transform, he finds the magic lightning sucked into one Sivana's machines, then spat back out, turning Captain Marvel into an evil Sivana-headed duplicate too!
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "The World of Too Many Sivanas, Chapter Three: I Conquer Captain Marvel!"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Doctor Sivana
- crowd of Sivana-headed Zubulan citizens
Other Characters:
- Thula
Locations:
Items:
- Sivanium Molecular Rearranger
- Sivana's Marvel Machine
Vehicles:
- Sivana's Rocket-Ship
Synopsis for The World of Too Many Sivanas, Chapter Four: "I Conquer the World"
Sivana's turned his hated enemy into a being who looks and thinks just like him, which turns out to be a mistake, as Sivana-Marvel does exactly what he'd do to a rival: betray them and steal their power. Sivana sneaks away and flies off in his rocketship, to get help from the one only person who can stop Captain Marvel, which is Shazam himself at the Rock of Eternity. For the sake of his pupil, Shazam agrees to turn Captain Marvel back after Sivana disables his machine. However, the wizard warns him not to hurt Billy Batson or face his wrath.
Shazam does send magic lightning and changes Marvel back to Billy. But as soon as that's done, Sivana turns his device back on again so that Captain Marvel will become evil again if Billy tries to transform. Knowing Billy wouldn't let that happen, Sivana kicks him out, to keep the letter of the law of his promise to Shazam.
Billy makes his way to Shazam's cave, and summons the wizard's ghost for help. Since he can't become Captain Marvel without turning into a villain again, Billy asks Shazam to dispatch the six Elders themselves to battle Sivana's plot. They fly at speed to Sivana's headquarters and destroy his lightning rod, allowing Captain Marvel to take over. He easily captures Sivana, forces him to restore everyone to normal, and then deliver the evil genius to prison once again.
Appearing in The World of Too Many Sivanas, Chapter Four: "I Conquer the World"
Featured Characters:
- Captain Marvel (last golden age appearance)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Doctor Sivana (last golden age appearance)
Locations:
- Earth-S (last golden age appearance)
- New York City (last golden age appearance)
- Zubula, Africa
- Rock of Eternity (last golden age appearance)
Items:
- Sivanium Molecular Rearranger (Destroyed)
- Sivana's Marvel Machine (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
- Sivana's Space Ship (Destroyed)
Notes
- "Captain Marvel's Wedding" is reprinted in Shazam! Vol 1 17.
- Final issue of Captain Marvel Adventures
- In Chapter One: "I Conquer Africa!, Sivana discovers a new radioactive mineral, and names it Sivanium, but this is not the same "Living Metal" that he had synthesized back in Captain Marvel Adventures #100.
- Sivana's Sivanium-powered Molecular Rearranger had the effect of changing people's heads into duplicates of Sivana's head, including his evil Sivana brain.
- Sivana's Marvel Machine redirected SHAZAM's magic lightning bolt through Sivana's Molecular Rearranger, which thus became also effective on Captain Marvel.
- Also appearing in this issue of Captain Marvel Adventures were:
- Doc Sorebones: "Wear Pumps!"
- Dopey Danny Dee: "Washed Up!"
- "Interplanetary Jailbreak" (text story, featuring Jon Jarl) by Eando Binder
- Judge Smudge: "Dead Duck!"
- Tightwad Tad: "Junior's Glasses"
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