Mary Marvel#14(1947)

Mary is out having an ice-cream soda at the malt shop with her friend Trudy Dalton, who mentions that they're both orphans that were adopted. Although she loves the Daltons, she thinks about her “real” family, which Mary can sympathize with. However, she says it's environment not heredity counts in life and the Daltons brought her up to be a decent and honest person. Trudy suddenly finds a wallet on the ground with lots of money in it and offers they should turn it over to the Police HQ down the corner. Mary takes this is good evidence that Trudy is a good person and was raised as a good person. Mary heads home for a bit to see her later that night. In the meanwhile, Trudy picks flowers in her garden and is approached by a shifty stranger calling her “niece” and introduces himself as “Uncle Ben” and shows her a special mole on her left hand, calling it a family mark that he also has. He says long ago, he got into a fight with her father and left his home when she was a baby and he only looked her up now. He says he knows that he's a loser and a disgrace, so he asks her for a “bargain” of her stealing $5,000 and giving it to him. If she doesn't, he'll reveal himself and they'll be so disgusted that they'll kick her out. She starts having a breakdown about her uncle being an evil drifter with a bean-shaped head. That evening, Mary comes over and learns the horrible truth of “Uncle Ben” and decides to hide out to help her out. “Uncle Ben” demands the money, but Trudy says she didn't steal $5,000, so he tries to attack her, prompting Mary to call SHAZAM to become Mary Marvel. She punches “Uncle Ben” in the head and tells him to admit he just made up the story, but he insists that she's Trudy Parker and that he knows the old Parker House where she was born at 192 Tucker St. Mary Marvel flies them to the abandoned house and enters to find a large portrait of a woman that Trudy thinks sure does look like a mother of her. They have another portrait of “Uncle Ben,” but turned away to hide his shameful face as the Black Sheep of the Family. Mary Marvel realizes he's been living in the abandoned Parker house for some time. Suddenly, two cops enter and reveal that he's actually “Blarney” Ben, a swindler and Mary Marvel looks over and find's Trudy is gone. Elsewhere in the Parker house, Ben shoves Trudy through the backdoor, but Mary Marvel punches him in the throat and he crumples. The cops say that Blarney Ben will get 20 for this, but Trudy is still upset that the Daltons will be disgusted by her now, but Mary Marvel says if she tells them the truth, she'll be fine. Trudy tells the Daltons that her uncle was really “Blarney” Ben Parker, a notorious swindler, but they see no difference: they adopted her for being herself and that's what's important to them, but they're very proud they have an honest and just daughter like her. Mary Marvel flies off and Trudy cries thanking her.