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Episode 5 - Mar-Velous

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Episode 5: Mar-Velous

Today we’ll be covering Captain Marvel vol 1 issues 1, 2, and 3

Preface:

Discussion about how the Captain Marvel solo title got it’s start
Legal history about Captain Marvel (Fawcett/DC/Marvel)

Captain Marvel 1: Out of the Holocaust.. A Hero!

  • Captain Marvel battles the Kree Sentry, luring it away from the Cape’s nuclear arsenal
  • The Sentry’s self-repairing is too much for Mar
  • Yon-Rogg is horrible to Una, boasting of Mar-Vell’s coming demise
  • Hotel clerk Jeremy Logan snoops on Mar, discovering his Carry-All Cylinder
  • Carol Danvers gets trapped in the Kree Cone of Shame
  • Carol may get damseled by Una won’t take a damseling passively!
  • Mar defeats the Sentry by puncturing its hull and hitting inside with a magnetic charge
  • Yon-Rogg is salty but gets chastised by Ronan the Accuser for jeopardizing the mission

    • Captain Marvel 2: The Space Man and the Super Skrull!

    • Old King Skrull sees the Kree taking interest in Earth, thus he is now interested in Earth
    • Old King Skrull summons Kl’rt (The Super Skrull) to figure out what the Kree want
    • Super Skrull has the hots for Anelle, Old King Skrulls daughter
    • Mar-Vell discovers that his Carry-All Cylinder is missing and it’s got a nuclear booby-trap
    • Hotel clerk Jeremy Logan heads to the base with the Carry-All and is intercepted by Super Skrull, who knocks him out
    • Captain Marvel and Super Skrull fight, Mar gets knocked out

      • Captain Marvel 3: From the Ashes of Defeat

      • Captain Marvel gets probed by Super Skrull (with the Psycho-Probe
      • Mar escapes to the Kree ship after Kl’rt sees his memories
      • Yon-rogg… still the worst, tries to let Mar die of neglect in space
      • Mar-Vell convinces the Imperial Minister to allow him to return to Earth to diffuse the Carry-All Cylinder
      • Kl-rt uses the information he’s gleaned to pose as Captain Marvels alter-ego Dr. Lawson but he isn’t fooling Carol Danvers
      • Captain Marvel and Super Skrull fight again and Super Skrull is defeated… by self hypnosis…
      • Mar-Vell diffuses the nuclear bomb
      • Jeremy Logan is now in a coma

        • If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in:

        • Essential Captain Marvel Vol 1
        • Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel Vol 1
        • Digitally on Comixology and Marvel Unlimited
        • Ask your local library.

          • If you would like to know more about Captain Marvel:

          • Untold Legend of Captain Marvel

            • Mar-Vell and Skrulls:

            • Young Avengers 9-12

              • Super Skrull:

              • Annihilation: Super-Skrull

                • Creators of these issues:

                Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Vince Colletta, Artie Simek, Irving Forbush, Sam Rosen, and Stan Lee

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                Artifacts of InfinityBy Everett Christensen and Jonathan Hutson