Captain Marvel (M. F. Enterprises)
| Captain Marvel | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | M. F. Enterprises |
| First appearance | Captain Marvel #1 (April 1966) |
| Created by | Carl Burgos |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Prof. Roger Winkle |
| Species | Alien android |
| Place of origin | Unnamed planet destroyed by nuclear war |
| Team affiliations | Earth, Dartmoor University |
| Partnerships | Billy Baxton, Tinyman (D.A. Jack Baker) |
| Notable aliases | The Human Robot, Mr. Marvel |
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Captain Marvel was a superhero published by Myron Fass' short-lived M. F. Enterprises. The character is unrelated to those published by Fawcett Comics, DC Comics, or Marvel Comics.
Captain Marvel lasted for four issues (cover-dated April-Nov. 1966). It was followed by two issues of Captain Marvel Presents the Terrible Five, numbered #1 and #5 (Sept. 1966 and Sept. 1967).
Captain Marvel was a jet-booted and laser-eyed alien android powered by a blue M medallion, who had been sent to Earth by his creators to escape the atomic destruction of their war-ravaged planet. Vowing to protect the peace of his new home, the self-proclaimed "human robot took the secret identity of journalist turned Dartmoor University professor Roger Winkle. He fought crime using his superhuman strength, speed and durability. As well, he could detach his head, limbs and hands and send them flying off in all directions whenever he shouted "Split!" and reattach them when he shouted "Xam!"
The M. F. Enterprises version of Captain Marvel made a cameo appearance, along with other alternate versions of Captain Marvel, in issue #27 of DC Comics' The Power of Shazam! (1997). The character is shown performing his trademark division trick while wearing the traditional thunderbolt costume of Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel.
Captain Marvel fought villains including the elastic-limbed Plastic Man, whose name was that of a preexisting character from another company, and who was renamed Elasticman after his first appearance the bristly-mustached mad scientist Dr. Fate (not the DC Comics character), who was obsessed with learning the electronic secrets of the android; Prof. Doom of the subversive organization B.I.R.D. (Bureau of International Revolutionary Devices), whose on-campus mind control experiments endangered Prof. Winkle's relationship with the university president's attractive young daughter Linda Knowles; Tarzac, the bald, amphibious, self-style "King of the Sharks" who rode a giant seahorse; nuclear physicist turned metal-mouthed pirate Atom-Jaw, who could bite through solid steel; and the miniature Tinyman, who reformed to become the local district attorney
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