Joe Jark
A taxidermist who sells stone animals then plans to turn the population of Volcanoville, a city in a volcano crater, to stone using a gas. It will be blamed on the volcano and he will make a fortune from exhibiting the city. Billy sees the people turning to stone and turns to Captain Marvel. He stops the spreading of the gas and blocks the hole, but sees Jark with a gas mask using a bomb to open the hole. He plugs it again with a tree, but turns to Billy to get through a small window in Jark's shop. However he breaks a vase accidentally, alerting Jark who knocks him out, then ties up and gags him. He tries to turn Batson to stone using a gas that only turns skin to stone, leaving someone alive for hours before they slowly die, and removes the gag to see the effect on his face, but Batson kept his mouth open so he can speak and turns into Captain Marvel, and defeats Jark. He realises a light blow on the skin will shatter the stone, and a new outer layer will grow in a few days. Jark is then jailed.
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