Captain Marvel Jr. #40

In "The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up!", Jo stumbles upon a strange sight: a boy driving a fire engine out of the station, then follows him into a mystery that defies time. When he finally speaks to the boy, he learns the truth—this 25-year-old man is trapped in a child’s body after drinking his father’s elixir of youth, caught between the mind of an adult and the innocence of a child.

In "The Principal Draws Interest!", Captain Marvel, Jr. steps in to help when a young man narrowly escapes a dangerous fall into a sewer—only to reveal a heartfelt plea from his school’s principal. With $4,000 needed to build a safe, swelldown playground that could keep kids off the streets and out of harm’s way, the hero finds himself drawn into a mission that’s as much about community as it is about saving lives.

In "Captain Marvel Jr. Puts on the Pressure," the ambitious owner of the Daily Chronicle schemes to crush the competition, unaware that the seemingly powerless newsboy delivering the Record is actually Captain Marvel Jr. — a secret identity that could turn the tide in more ways than one.

In a chilling twist on a rite of passage, Freddy’s nighttime trek through a cemetery takes a horrifying turn when he stumbles into two graves—only to uncover a macabre secret. Captain Marvel Jr. soon learns that a greedy sculptor has been exhuming the dead, encasing the bodies in molten copper, and selling the grotesque statues to grieving widows.