(Shazam! I #1) - <1953> The mayor of Fawcett City threw a celebration at city hall to honor the Marvel Family, with a number of their friends and fans in attendance, including Cissie Sommerly. The wicked Sivana Family chose that moment to strike from Sivana's spaceship, hitting the crowd with a vortex transporter paralyzer ray, drawing them into space, and encasing them in a globe of suspendium, a compound that would put them in suspended animation. Sivana, Junior slapped his dad on the back for a job well done, causing Sivana to lose control of his spaceship and crashing into the suspendium, trapping the villains with their victims. The globe orbited the sun for decades until the heat of the sun began to melt the suspendium, freeing the Marvel Family. They realized the suspendium was being pulled into the sun's orbit, and had to act fast to save the lives of everyone inside the globe. The Sivana Family revived and flew their spaceship to safety while the Marvel Family pushed the globe back to Earth before smashing it, freeing their friends and returning to Fawcett. Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel, Jr. went into space to search for the Sivanas, while Captain Marvel checked out one of Sivana's old mountain hideouts. He found the Sivana Family working on a death projector, which Sivana fired up, hoping it would destroy most of Earth's population, making him ruler of the world. Marvel smashed their machine and took the Sivanas to jail, but they all shared a laugh over how happy they were to be a live and out of suspended animation.

(Shazam! I #4) - April 1st rolled around, and Billy Batson was depressed because he hadn't celebrated his birthday in decades, and after being gone from Fawcett so long he thought nobody remembered it was his birthday. Billy returned home, where all his friends, including Cissie threw him a surprise birthday party.

(Shazam! I #10) - Billy and Cissie went on a date in the park, and Cissie pointed out a shooting star. The shooting star was actually a spaceship carrying Salad Men from Salata, and Captain Marvel helped repair their ship and get them back to their home planet.

(Shazam! I #11) - Billy Batson and Cissie Sommerly went on a date at Doc Quartz’ drug store and after finishing off his colossal burgers Doc gave them his latest concoction, super-energized gelatin, as a free desert. Billy and cissie found that as much as they ate the gelatin kept replenishing itself, and started filling up the drug store. Doc Quartz realized he’d made a miscalculation when he made the gelatin, he energized it too much and it was growing like yeast. He implored them to help him eat it before the entire city was covered in gelatin. Billy changed into Captain Marvel to eat more, but even his mighty appetite was no match for the gelatin, so he gathered passer-bys and people in stores to chip in. Sterling Morris helped out, and said he couldn’t eat another bite, but praised the gelatin’s melt in your mouth texture. Marvel realized that the gelatin didn’t expand in their stomachs after being melted, and stoked every furnace in Fawcett City to cause a heat wave that melted the gelatin. Doc Quartz praised Marvel for averting a disaster, and asked him to try out his man-sized World’s Mightiest Hero Sandwich, but Marvel had enough of eating for the day.

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