Found this in the sale bins at the comic store and it was just too bizarre to pass up.
“Captain Marvel was a jet-booted and laser-eyed alien android powered by an “M”-emblemed 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 in the city of Riverview, USA where he lived with his young ward Billy Baxton, the first person he met when he arrived on Earth and the only one who knew his true origins.
Captain Marvel possessed superhuman strength, speed and senses (including something called “radar hearing” and the ability to fly thanks to his jet heeled Astro-Boots that enabled him to hurl through sky and space at fantastic speeds.
His super-durable robotic body was equipped with advanced alien technology that, among other things, allowed him to generate force fields and sonic blasts and to shoot metal-melting laser beams out of his eyes. He also had a super-intelligent computer brain programmed with the scientific knowledge of two worlds that could alter his internal mechanisms to do anything from breath underwater to travel through time.
Captain Marvel’s signature ability, however, was the power to 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!”
Apparently a lawsuit by the trademark holders of the original Captain Marvel forced the demise of the company producing it and it only ran four issues total. The 1966 Captain Marvel is a truly strange reading experience and even the splash page is warped!
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