List of Marvel Family Enemies - Jokes of Jeopardy Spies

Jokes of Jeopardy Spies

Only appearing in Marvel Family #88. At Mrs Wagner's boardinghouse someone tries to rent a room, but keeps getting turned down as it is full up. Freddy Freeman and Leroy Marks start playing pranks on each other, and challenge each other to a practical joke contest. They play them round the boarding house, and Mary and Billy find out about this prank contest. Billy in his room finds an imitation snake, then realizes it is a real cobra. He transforms into Captain Marvel, tangles it up, and saves it for the zoo. Mary finds firecrackers have set her bed alight, she becomes Mary Marvel, fills her mouth with water from a tap, and puts it out. Freddy finds a tear gas bomb in his room, and becomes Captain Marvel Jr. He throws it out and clears the place. They go to meet Leroy, and Jr. finds a bucket of water on the door. They tell Leroy they think he committed the other pranks, but he tells them he did not commit this. Mary says she thinks he is telling the truth, and by process of elimination they think Freddy committed them, forgetting the tear gas. They ask Jr. if he is covering up for Freddy. Jr. runs out sadly, transforms back, and starts crying. Billy and Mary are sad about the Marvel Family breaking up. Billy has an idea, the two Marvels tie up Leroy, and tie up and gag Freddy. In Professor Edgewise's lab someone prepares a device, then meets Cap and Mary who decided to wait for another prank, and are somehow in the lab. He throws the atomic drill, and while Mary and Freddy save Professor Edgewise the crook escapes. Cap frees and ungags Freddy who transforms. Jr. sees a light in the tower which was not noticed before by the Marvels, and Mary chases the helicopter. She plays a 'practical joke' on the pilot, he leaps out to run away, but finds her waiting for him. Freddy stops another person, and Cap finds a hidden bag on the top of the tower, the highest point in the neighborhood, which the plane was supposed to pick up. It is revealed this contains atomic secrets, which the spies had stolen. One of them reveals he sneaked in and played practical jokes, hoping Leroy or Freddy would get blamed and kicked out, leaving an empty room for him, from which he could pass secrets for months. The Marvel Family rejoice being together again. Later Leroy tries to scare them with a mask, but Mary says 'Silly man! After all those horrible jokes, do you think that cute mask can scare us?'