Captain Marvel #3-Does The Super Skrull Win?

When I first saw the striking green cover to Marvel Comic’s Captain Marvel #3 years ago I wanted the issue.  The fact that The Super Skrull was on the cover convinced me to purchase it.  That was back in the 1960s.

Defeated and captured by The Super Skrull, Captain Mar-vell feigns unconsciousness in the hopes of stopping the Super Skrull.

Unfortunately The Super Skrull removes the Captain’s helmet thus making his vulnerable to a huge explosion should Mar-vell fail to stop it.

Using a mind-sifting machine the Super Skrull reads Mar-vell’s mind and views his memories from the past few days.

After probing Mar-vell’s mind The Super Skrull learns a shocking secret.

Mar-vell manages to escape with The Super Skrull in hot pursuit.  He makes it back to his ship and despite his commander’s interference returns to earth to stop The Super Skrull.

The story ends with a battle and The Super Skrull mesmerized by his own super-hypnosis.

In this issue The Sentry makes an appearance as does Carol Danvers (the future Captain Marvel).

Roy Thomas provides the worlds and artist Gene Colan the art.

Gene was never too keen on drawing superheroes but despite that he turns in some spectacular art.  Later on in his career he would pencil The Avengers, Daredevil, and Howard The Duck and perhaps his most famous Marvel Comics work: Dracula.

Isaiah 53:6 (NKJV) “All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”