Ahh, nothing is so fine as to find a prescient comic book...
See, it's
1946, and station
WHIZ is ready to enter the crazy mixed up world of
television!
But they have a bit of a problem...
Ah, but one of
Billy Batson's teeny adventures winds up with
Captain Marvel on camera, and:
But what can he do besides stand around and look pretty?
Nope.
Nope.
(What, early TV comedians wore
top hats?!?!)
Hey--how about singing?
Oh, dear!
And so...
And...
Even poor Billy is getting the short end of the fascination of American women for the
Big Red Cheese's singing!
It's a disturbing nationwide phenomenon!!
Fortunately, a jealous rival crooner
(!!) slip Cap a vocal mickey, and gives him laryngitis!
Oh, man, Marvel completely choked his first TV appearance! I guess he's no
Elvis!!
At least he has his crime-fighting career to fall back on...or did, until
DC decided to abandon him again...
From Captain Marvel Adventures #54 (1946)
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