This week: The Scorpion Machine!
Way back in the long ago, when Shazam was still called Captain Marvel, he was the most popular superhero. So he got the first superhero serial, The Adventures of Captain Marvel, in 1941. The plot involved a criminal mastermind called The Scorpion trying to find an artifact called the Scorpion Machine that could supposedly turn sunlight into gold. It’s a serial so there’s a lot more to it than that, but that’s the gist.
The Scorpion Machine makes its comics debut in The Power Of Shazam #24 (January 1997) as part of a story Spy Smasher is telling Billy and Mary Batson. In the story, Spy Smasher enlisted the help of their dad to help him find a machine called The Scorpion that was originally found by the Malcolm Expedition, which Batson’s father (Billy’s grandfather) was a part of. It was lost for a time and then turned up again, and Spy Smasher wanted to keep it out of Nazis’ hands.
Unfortunately that was the only time we saw it, but DC loves referencing that serial. Look up Whitey Murphy for another example!
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