Captain Marvel Adventures #118

Fawcett's Captain Marvel Adventures #118 (1951) puts the World's Mightiest Mortal front and center against a genuinely unsettling threat — the cover, penciled and inked by C. C. Beck, depicts Captain Marvel swooping in with a sharp "Holy Moley!" as a hapless civilian cries "Help! Blub!" while being engulfed by a churning, watery creature identified on the cover as the Weird Water Man. With five complete Captain Marvel stories packed into 52 full-color pages for just a dime, this issue offers a generous slice of 1951 adventure, including a tale by writer Otto Binder pitting the Big Red Cheese against Sivana's Sound Plague.