—Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)It's perfectly obvious! You're a woman – a lovely woman, in fact! And you've been given a very masculine role in life! Naturally, psychological conflicts must arise when a beautiful young woman is asked to play at policeman!
Appearing in "The Mark of the Metazoid"
Featured Characters:
- ⏴ Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) ⏵ (Main story and recap) (Impersonates Dr. Walter Lawson)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Soviet Army (Main story and flashback) (Topical Reference)
- Metazoid (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
- Unnamed Colonel (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed agents (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Sub-Mariner (Namor McKenzie) (Only in recap)
- Kree Empire
- Imperial Kree Army
- Numerous unnamed soldiers
- Accuser Corps
- Supreme Intelligence (Mentioned in narration)
- Imperial Kree Army
- Dr. Walter Lawson (Mentioned)
- United States Armed Forces
- United States Navy
- Three unnamed navy personnel
- United States Air Force
- Unnamed Soldier
- United States Navy
- ⏴ Chester Fenton ⏵
- ⏴ Jeremy Logan ⏵
- Hayes City General Hospital
- Unnamed Doctor
- Olsen (First appearance)
- Two unnamed orderlies
Races and Species:
- Mutant Atlantean-Human Hybrids (Only in recap)
- Kree (Main story and recap)
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Human-Kree Hybrids
- Crows (Mentioned)
- Vintar (Mentioned in narration)
Locations:
- Milky Way (Main story and recap)
- Solar System (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- North America (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- Upper New York Bay (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- Florida
- Cape Canaveral
- Hayes City (First appearance)
- New York (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Earth Orbit
- Atlantic Ocean
- Europe (Only in flashback)
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
- Russia (Only in flashback)
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Only in flashback) (Topical Reference)
- North America (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- Solar System (Main story and recap)
- Kree Galaxy
- Ranus (Mentioned in narration)
- Galaxy-7 (Mentioned in narration)
Items:
- Kree Militia Uniforms
- Uni-Band
- Mind Eraser (First appearance)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Mark of the Metazoid"
Aboard the Kree vessel over the Earth, Mar-Vell is put on trial by Yon-Rogg for being "Un-Kree" by allowing the Sub-Mariner to win a battle and prevent the people of Earth from being infected with bacteria (as seen last issue). However, after much consideration, Ronan decides to judge Mar-Vell based on his future actions in being able to carry out his mission. He orders Mar-Vell to kill Mr. Logan the one man who may hint at Mar-Vell's identity. Mar-Vell gets out of killing Logan by suggesting that killing Logan would attract unwanted attention and erasing his memory would be better. Ronan agrees and allows Mar-Vell to see things his own way.
Back on Earth, Communist agents are plotting to capture Walter Lawson by sending their latest super-powered agent the Metazoid -- a being mutated to have the metabolism of 50 men -- to capture Lawson. Meanwhile, Mar-Vell returns to Earth and assumes his identity as Lawson. Returning to the Cape he deflects the suspicions of Carol Danvers about "Lawson's" activities. Traveling to the hospital where Logan is recovering, Mar-Vell is attacked by the Metazoid before he can erase Logan's memories. Changing into his Kree armor, Mar-Vell battles, but tries to avoid killing the creature.
However, when physical might, and his Uni-Beam prove useless against the Metazoid, Mar-Vell is forced to expose the Metazoid to an x-ray machine which proves to be lethal to the Metazoid. After the death of his attacker, Mar-Vell succeeds in using the memory eraser on Logan, and quickly flees when doctors stumble in upon Mar-Vell when he's completed his job.
Notes
Publication Notes[]
- This issue contains a letters page, Mail it to Mar-Vell. Letters are published from Jeff Pierce, Shirley Gorman, Peter Sanderson, John Jeffers, Mikey Kellogg, Corbett Besco, and Gary Brown.