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Episode 6 - Mr. Tam-Bor-ine Man

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Episode 6: Mr. Tam-Bor-ine Man

Today we’ll be covering Captain Marvel vol 1 issues 11, 15, and 16

Preface:

  • Sales of Captain Marvel were shaky but the title was important
  • This caused the creative team to be inconsistent
  • This is a much more modern storytelling method

    • Captain Marvel 11: Rebirth

    • Captain Marvel is going to be executed by Kree Firing Squad
    • The Kree Firing Squad is vaporized by an Aakon raiding party
    • Medic Una gets into the fray to defend her man
    • The Aakon have changed appearance
    • Mar-Vell waxes poetic, pining for justice and peace
    • Medic Una is killed!!! NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Why Must She Be Fridged?!?!
    • Mar-Vell and Yon-Rogg are gonna tussle
    • Una is actually alive! Mar steals a spaceship from the cape to spirit her away.
    • Nope, Una is dead again… out of the refrigerator and into the freezer
    • Yon-Rogg’s ship yeets Mar’s ship faster than light into the cosmos
    • Mar hallucinates as he is lost in space for months
    • He awakens planetside healed and refreshed
    • There is a giant building and a being calling to him… the being is ZO!
    • Mar agrees to work for ZO in exchange for buffs to allow him to get revenge on Yon

      • Captain Marvel 15: That ZO Might Live… A Galaxy Must Die!

      • Captain Marvel demands that ZO prove that he’s as powerful as he claims
      • ZO shows Mar a slideshow of Western History ending in Nuclear Holocaust
      • It then shows Mar-Vell a vision of Mar destroying Kree-Lar
      • There’s tons of awesome Black Light Poster Art
      • Mar is convinced, it’s a good slide-show
      • ZO tells Mar-Vell that Mar has to destroy the Kree Pagan God TAMBOR
      • TAMBOR has magnetic powers, which we all know work by magic
      • If Mar destroys Mag-TAMBOR-no it will destroy Kree-Lar so Mar is stumped
      • Mar-vell is ultimately captured by the followers of Tam-Bor

        • Captain Marvel 16: Behind the Mask of ZO!

        • Captain Marvel is dragged before Tam-Bor
        • Tam-bor brings the destructive magnetism which Mar overcomes with Jet-Belt Action
        • Mar-Vel discovers that Tam-Bor isn’t a God but is a giant Kirby-esq machine!
        • Mar-Vel defeats Tam-Bor with his Olympic Leaping Skills
        • Ronan the Accuser teleports in and blasts Mar-Vel
        • Ronan is finally shown as a Blue Kree (signaling that he tastes like Raspberry)
        • Ronan thrashes Captain Marvel with his Universal Weapon but Mar activates his helmets self-destruct and lobs it like a grenade at Tam-Bor, destroying it.
        • Ronan is about to execute Mar when the Supreme Intelligence intercedes with its Super Sentry
        • Mar-Vel is teleported to the Hall of Judgement by the Super Sentry
        • Turns out, Mar isn’t the one on trial, Zarek the Imperial Minister is. Mar knows him by another name though, ZO!
        • Zarek, Ronan, and Yon-Rogg were conspiring together because of Racism… Yep, they were tired of the Supreme Intelligences dumb liberal policies of a peaceful pluralistic society and wanted to make Kree-Lar great again!
        • Zarek and Ronan attempt to escape but the Supreme Intelligence captures them
        • In reward for all he’s been through, the Supreme Intelligence gives Mar the Nega-Bands and a new costume.
        • Mar-Vell tries to teleport to Earth but something goes wrong and he ends up in THE NEGATIVE ZONE!

          • 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 2
          • Digitally on Comixology and Marvel Unlimited
          • Ask your local library

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

            • Avengers (1964) 89-97 The Kree Skrull War
            • Marvel Graphic Novel #1: The Death of Captain Marvel

              • Ronan:

              • Inhumans Vol. 3
              • Annihilators (2012)
              • Black Vortex (2015)

                • Creators of these issues:

                Arnold Drake, Dick Ayers, Vince Colletta, Jean Izzo, Stan Lee, Barry Windsor-Smith, Herb Trimpe, Gary Friedrich, Tom Sutton, Dan Adkins, Jean Izzo, Marie Severin, John Verpoorten, Sam Rosen, Archie Goodwin, Don Heck, and Syd Shores

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                Artifacts of InfinityBy Everett Christensen and Jonathan Hutson