Captain Marvel Jr. happen to be fishing in the lake near the place Nazi lands and, not knowing who he is, lift the unconscious man into their boat to prevent him from drowning. Nazi immediately comes to, tosses the old man into the lake, and knocks the boy out of the boat with an oar. The old man immediately dies, but Captain Marvel is able to save the unconscious boy, named Freddy Freeman, and bring him to a hospital. Captain Marvel, in his alter ego as young Billy Batson, learns from a nurse that Freddy is not expected to last the night. This
Ego the Living Planet his 1972 book "Outlaws of America", Author Roger Lewis argues that Ego the Living Planet reflected risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth that people were contemplating in the 1960s, when he was initially conceived. In 2007 "Ego the Loving Planet", the story that ran in "" #12, featured Ego, and was praised by Ray Tate of ComicsBulletin for its simultaneous inventiveness and logical sense. In August 2009, "Time" listed Ego as one of the "Top 10 Oddest Marvel Characters". Ego the Living Planet Ego the Living Planet is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel