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Date: 1941 (Release)

Country: USA

Director: William Witney, John English

Synopsis: Superhuman, bullet-proof Captain Marvel overcomes innumerable dangers and prevents secret of "The Scorpion" from falling into the wrong hands. Episodes: 1. Curse of the Scorpion 2. The guillotine 3. Time bomb 4. Death takes the wheel 5. The Scorpion strikes 6. Lens of death 7. Human targets 8. Boomerang 9. Dead man's trap 10. Doom ship 11. Valley of death 12. Captain Marvel's secret

Genres:
Crime, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Credits (22)
Production Company: Republic Pictures Corporation, Producer: Herbert J. Yates, Associate Producer: Hiram S. Brown Jr, Production Manager: Al Wilson, Script: Sol Shor, Script: Ronald Davidson, Script: Arch B. Heath, Script: Norman Shannon Hall, Script: Joseph Franklin Poland, Original comic strip character: Bill Parker, Charles Clarence Beck, Photography: William Nobles, Special Effects: Theodore Lydecker, Special Effects: Howard Lydecker, Editor: Edward Todd, Editor: William Thompson, Music composed and conducted: Cy Feuer, Stunts: Loren Riebe, Stunts: David Sharpe, Stunts: Ken Terrell
Cast (24)
Tom Tyler (Captain Marvel), Frank Coghlan Jr (Bill Batson), Billy Benedict (Whitey), Louise Currie (Betty Wallace), Nigel De Brulier (Shazam), Reed Hadley (Rahman Bar), John Davison (Tal Chotali), Robert Strange (John Malcolm), Harry Worth (Professor Luther Bentley), George Pembroke (Dr. Stephen Lang), Peter George Lynn (Dwight Fisher), Bryant Washburn (Henry Carlyle), Kenne Duncan (Barnett), Stanley Price (Owens), Tetsu Komai (Chan Lai), Ernest Sarracino (Akbar), Leland Hodgson (Major Rawley), Carleton Young (Martin), John Bagni (Cowan), Jack Mulhall (James Howell), Ken Terrell (Hawks), Edward Cassidy (The Captain), Francis Sayles, Gerald Mohr (voice of The Scorpion)