Now Available - Adventures of Captain Marvel: Curse of the Scorpion (Chapter 1)

[Pak-Man]

Adventures of Captain Marvel: Curse of the Scorpion (Chapter 1)

Short film · 2022

An American archaeological expedition has traveled to the Far East in order to respectfully aid local scientists in preserving a sacred site. Just kidding! They’re going Tomb Robbin’!

With Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett

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Shazam!! With one simple word and a puff of smoke, young Billy Batson transforms from an awkward dork with his pants up around his rib cage to a slightly older, doughier dork with his pants up around his rib cage. Yes folks, it's another black and white superhero serial that appears to have been filmed during the Harding administration!

An American archaeological expedition has traveled to the Far East in order to respectfully aid local scientists in preserving a sacred site. Just kidding! They're going Tomb Robbin'! Unfortunately, they're shocked when their efforts result in a terrible curse: their story will be told in glacially-paced, poorly-acted, low-budget serial episodes!

Only Captain Marvel can rid the world of the Curse of the Scorpion. Unfortunately, he's still figuring out this whole "superpower" thing, and you know what? A few innocent people are gonna die while he's getting his sea legs. Fortunately, there's a dozen of these things, so he's got plenty of time to figure it out! Maybe Gabe can help...

Join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for this Giant-Size first episode of Adventures of Captain Marvel!

Written by: Bill Corbett, Conor Lastowka, and Sean Thomason

Guest writers: Gail Simone and Matt Fraction

[ihavemyreasons]

Very, very happy with this. Good print. Haven't seen it before and episode 1 moves at a good pace compared to a lot of the old seriels including Phantom Creeps. And very goofy with lots to riff.

[Pastor of Muppets]

So are they going to do the whole series, like they did with those Batman serials a while back?

[LucasM]

So are they going to do the whole series, like they did with those Batman serials a while back?

I hope so, I enjoyed this one.

About three or so years ago, I watched the serial (lousy print, unlike the RT one) on - I think - Prime.  I'd heard it was considered one of the better serials.  That, unfortunately, doesn't say a whole lot (beyond, "most every other serial is FAR worse" ).