List of Marvel Family Enemies - King of All Time

King of All Time

Only appearing in Marvel Family #88. There is a siren, but Billy announces it is a fake air raid. He does not have time to report about Zotan, the dictator who took over the mountain kingdom of Javania in one week. The fake air raid happens, however it is really Zotan's air fleet that is attacking, which the gunners do not realise. Bombs are dropped on the city, realising that they are real the Marvel Family transform, however a bomb hits the basement. The victims are unharmed, but then say 'Down with America! Down with democracy!' They attack the Marvels. Captain Marvel finds the bombs are soft plastic, and instead of explosives hold a drug-like gas that enslaves human minds. It is shown Zoan's weapons effect minds, possessing weapons like 'slavery shells,' and 'propaganda cannons.' The Marvel family smash 12 ships, but Zotan has over a hundred and orders one of his henchmen to move the Time Lever so the rest of his ships can be saved. They escape to a different century. The Marvels find only a few hundred citizens were mentally bombed, so they hold them for observation. The Marvels fly faster than light and get to the Rock of Eternity to ask Shazam about who attacked their century. He tells them it was Zotan; in One Million AD he was exposed as a brutal tyrant. He was exiled to 1953 and dropped in Javania. Using his advanced knowledge he made weapons of the future. Shazam explains all wars are fought over ideas, in the future all killing weapons were abandoned and only mental weapons were used. They go back to Earth, but find Zotan has taken over America. They are chased away, and find everywhere on Earth has been taken over by Zotan, meaning they leave Earth.

They cannot fight two billion people who are mental slaves, so return to the Rock of Eternity. Shazam explains Zotan wants to become King of Time, and shows them a chart showing the peaks of civilisation to caveman days. Other dictators invaded countries, Zotan wants to invade centuries, and eventually return to One Million AD and get revenge for deporting him. Shazam calls Zotan, but the dictator will not be persuaded and threatens to rule the past and future, and eventually conquer Shazam, to which Sazam angrily says he will never succeed. The Marvels are told Zotan will first strike at Egypt 3,000 BC. The Marvels cause a sandstorm to hide Egypt, not considering this will probably kill many citizens, so Zotan releases his slave gas, which starts to enslave Egypt. Zotan stands on a pyramid and escapes the Marvels with his time-belt that sends him a month into the future. They go back to Shazam who shows them other points, which each Marvel goes to. Mary tries using a shield to stop bombs striking Babylon, so guided missiles are used instead. Jr. tries to evacuate Athens underground, but Evilness rays penetrate the rock. Marvel causes a hurricane to wreck the fleet, but Hypno-Smoke is spread anyway over Rome. The Marvels go off to warn the future, but their scanner shows the fleet is not advancing. The Marvels realise it was a trick to leave the Rock unguarded, but Shazam has already been captured and chained up. Zotan brags he will cut the wizard's throat when he feels like it. Shazam obeys Zotan's order to get rid of the Marvels, as so it is written, and uses a thunderbolt of Zeus to apparently destroy the Marvels, however it only transforms them into the kids, and they cannot change back as Shazam is captured. 'No gags seal of their tongues. No bonds restrict them.' But they cannot change.

The fleet begins preparing the attack and the Marvels are chased by a soldier. Shazam has meanwhile been left on a savage world, manacled before what looks like a dinosaur. Billy gets the idea of going into the subway tunnel where they got their powers. Lighting the brazier saves the Wizard from death by transporting him to the cave, meaning the Marvels are able to transform. Zotan meanwhile is preparing his attack, as the future has been unarmed for thousands of years, while he has the killing weapons of the past. The Marvels fight the attacking phalanxes and seal up the ships. Zotan escapes, but the Marvels make freedom bombs, which were used earlier in the future to make peace and the plans are now stored in a museum. The Marvels drop them throughout time aided by future ships. The freedom bombs free the ages. When Zotan loses 1953 he tries to return to his ship, but Mary Marvel has destroyed it. Zotan uses his Time-belt to escape a month into the future, where Billy pretend to be his slave. He then removes the belt, transforms, and defeats Zotan, who is imprisoned.