List of Marvel Family Enemies - Fake Santas

Fake Santas

Only appearing in Wow Comics #9, Mary Marvel's first appearance in Wow Comics. Mary Batson invites Orphan children to her home for Christmas. She and her adoptive mother go to buy presents for the children. At a large Toy Shop a clerk acts strangely, saying he wants to hide a Toy Band so nobody buys it. When Mrs Bromfield asks if they have a Toy Band he says they are out of them, but they are wound up and march out. The clerk says they are not worth her money and not for sale. When she insists on buying them the Clerk takes out a bat, threatening to hit her. Mary wants to get help, then remembers to transform. She says the clerk should sell it, and when he hits her the bat breaks on her head. She throws him away then transforms. The Manager lets them buy the Band and discharges the Clerk, who tells a group of crooks who bought them, one says he was supposed to buy them like a customer. At the Bromfield House on Christmas Eve the orphans play then go to bed. Mary stays up to read, reading The Night before Christmas. Then a 'Santa' comes down the chimmney and starts taking presents. Three more come down and take the Toy-Band players. Mary transfoms to a Marvel, and has Machine-Gun bullets fired at her, which bounce off. She crumples the gun like tissue paper, not wanting the orphan kids to be woken. The crooks all attack her at once, but are knocked aside. One smashes a chair over her head, but she withstands that. The crooks leap out of the window with their loot, but she flies out and brings them back. However Mrs Bromfield has woken and calls to Mary. Mary is about to revive the crooks to ask why they want the Toy Band, but doesn't want Mrs Bromfield to know about the crooks or it would spoil her Christmas. She transforms behind a curtain to muffle the sound and says she knocked over a lamp. Mrs Bromfield says she'll go back to sleep and tells Mary not to stay up too late. However when Mary goes downstairs again she is seized and prevented from speaking by one of the Santas. Mary is then tied to a chair and gagged, and one Santa decides she is a witness and must be taken care off. He prepares to cosh her, but other Santa come down thee chimmney who see what is happening. One reveals himself as Captain Marvel, who saves Mary, the other two are Mr. Scarlet and Pinky the Whiz Kid who stop two other crooks. Cap removes Mary's gag, and she says she is ashamed at getting caught and wants to handle the last crook herself. She transforms and defeats him. One of the Toys breaks open, revealing Jewels inside. She realises the crooks were Jewel Smugglers, who got Jewels past the police by hiding them in toys. However the rest of the house has been awaken. Cap sees it is 12 O'Clock, causing all the heroes to say 'Merry Christmas.' The crooks are preseumably arrested.