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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 Find us on Twitter @ArtifactsOfI and ArtifactsOfInfinity.com