The Adventures of Comics' Greatest Generation!
Nobody is safe from Cupid's arrow, not even the mighty Captain Marvel!
Back in Whiz Comics #53 (1944), young Billy Batson gets a part time job at a wartime munitions plant. While working his shift, his demanding lady boss drops her makeup compact, which Billy returns to her in his alter ego of Captain Marvel. Little does Cap suspect that Billy's no-nonsense"Rosie the Riveter" boss is actually...a babe! (click on the panels for a larger view)
Before you know it, Cap's head over heels in love, courtesy of the "wily Cupid"!
Can a guitar serenade be far behind? Ahh, but alas...Cupid's arrow did not strike the fair Miss Curtis, as she proceeds to shut down the World's Mightiest Mortal. What's left for Cap to do but to sit in the gutter lamenting he couldn't even "get to first base with a girl"?
Why wasn't Cap her "type"? Now, before our naughty modern minds join Cap in the gutter, it's revealed that Miss Delia Curtis was engaged to another man when Cap was trying to woo her...
What's that? A double "Bah" to women and love? Sadly, it's true...as Billy Batson confirms later during a radio recap of Cap's brush with romance.
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"the world's greatest lover". And with superpowers, that says a lot. But how old is Billy Batson? Creepy. But the worst part? "Oh,TRA-LA-LA-LA!" Ugh
Posted by: Captain Average | February 12, 2008 at 07:19 AM
"But how old is Billy Batson? Creepy."
Billy's age never seemed to really be nailed down...though considering his target audience was pre-adolescent boys, he tended to skew younger...which is obvious from the "phooey on girls" wrap up to this story.
Posted by: Mark Engblom | February 12, 2008 at 07:31 AM
It took me at least 35 years to finally come to terms with that fact that girls have cooties.
Billy's lucky.
Posted by: Siskoid | February 12, 2008 at 08:04 AM
I credit the Wisdom of Solomon in giving Billy that early...and valuable...insight.
Posted by: Mark Engblom | February 12, 2008 at 09:32 AM