| DOCTOR SIVANA (Thaddeus Bodog Sivana) | CHRONOLOGY |
| Created by C.C. Beck and Bill Parker |
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CHRONOLOGY
Doctor Sivana first appeared in Whiz Comics #2 (February 1940) [Fawcett].
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Doctor Sivana in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.
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Doctor Sivana Chronology
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| Whiz Comics #2 [1] (February 1940): "Introducing Captain Marvel" [Retold with further details in Secret Origins #3] |
| Whiz Comics #3 [2] (March 1940): [Sivana Strikes Again] |
| Whiz Comics #4 [3] (April 1940): [Sivana's Venusian Kingdom] |
| Whiz Comics #5 [4] (May 1940): [Beautia for President] |
| Whiz Comics #6 (July 1940): "The Circus of Death" |
| Whiz Comics #10 (November 1940): "The Winged Death" |
| Special Edition Comics #1/4 (1940): "Sivana the Weather Wizard" |
| Whiz Comics #13 (February 1941): [Sivana's Fountain of Youth] |
| Whiz Comics #14 (March 1941): [Sivana's Ghostly Power] |
| Whiz Comics #15 (March 21, 1941): [The Origin of Dr. Sivana] |
| 64 Pages of New Captain Marvel Adventures #1 (1941): [Captain Marvel vs. Z] |
| 64 Pages of New Captain Marvel Adventures #2 (summer 1941): [World of the Microscope] |
| 64 Pages of New Captain Marvel Adventures #2/2 (summer 1941): [Invasion from Mars] |
| Whiz Comics #20 (August 8, 1941): "Crusher of Crime" |
| Whiz Comics #21 (September 5, 1941): "The Vengeful Four" |
| 64 Pages of New Captain Marvel Adventures #3/2 (fall 1941): [Sivana's Paralyzing Gas] |
| 64 Pages of New Captain Marvel Adventures #3/4 (fall 1941): [The Beast Ruler] |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #4 (October 31, 1941): [Sivana's Revenge on the Lieutenant Marvels] |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #5 (December 12, 1941): "Captain Marvel's Double Trouble" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #5/4 (December 12, 1941): "Sivana's Strange Chemical Potion" |
| Whiz Comics #26 (January 23, 1942): "The Amazing Trip into Time" |
| America's Greatest Comics #3 (May 13, 1942): "The Magno-Ray" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #11 (May 29, 1942): "Sivana Goes Straight" |
| Whiz Comics #31 (June 12, 1942): "The Marvel Exterminator" |
| America's Greatest Comics #4 (August 12, 1942): "The Bumble-Brained Bridegroom" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #17/4 (November 14, 1942): "The Hate Campaign" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #20/4 (January 22, 1943): "The Terror Out of the Past" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #4/4 (February 19, 1943): "The Pills of Peril" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #5/4 (March 1943): "The Fountain of Youth" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #22/2 (March 26, 1943): "The Voodoo Show Boat" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #22/3 (March 26, 1943): "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 1: The Pearl of Peril" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #24/2 (June 1943): "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 3: The Second Pearl Harbor" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #25/4 (July 1943): "The Monster Society of Evil Chapter 4: Glaciers Over America" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #10/3 (August 1943): "Sivana and an Ancestor's Enemy" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #28/3 (October 1943): "Sivana for Governor" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #12/3 (October 1943): "The Insect Giants" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #13/3 (November 1943): "The Mirage Projector of Crime" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #14/2 (December 1943): "Sivana, the Muscle Midget" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #16/3 (February 1944): "And the Wrong Changes!" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #18/3 (April 1944): "Sivana's Amazing Amnesia Gun" |
| Master Comics #49 (April 1944): "The Ghost Projector" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #21/2 (July 1944): "The Boy Woodsman" |
| Master Comics #54 (September 1944): "Captain Marvel, Jr. Disappears" |
| Master Comics #55 (October 1944): "Sivana's India Rubber Man" |
| Whiz Comics #59 (October 1944): "Sivana's Twin" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #41 (November 1944): "Captain Marvel Battles the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #28 (March 1945): "The Crumbling Crimes" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #29/3 (April 1945): "Captain Marvel, Jr. Goes to Never Never Land" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #46 (May 1945): "The Tall Stories of Jonah Joggins" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #31/2 (July 1945): "Sivana Slips Up" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #48 (August-September 1945): "Sivana and Marvel, Inc." |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #48/3 (August-September 1945): "The World's Mightiest Dream" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #50/3 (December 1945): "Sivana's Crime Newspaper" |
| Mary Marvel #1 (December 1945): "Mary Marvel Meets Sivana" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #34 (January 1946): "Four Hours to Live" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #52/3 (January 18, 1946): "The Son of Sivana" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #54 (February 15, 1946): "Sivana Plots Again" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #56 (March 15, 1946): "Captain Marvel Goes Crazy" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #58 (April 12, 1946): "Sivana Strikes Again" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #39 (June 1946): "The Headline Stealer" |
| Marvel Family #2 (June 1946): "Aunty Anti-Marvel" |
| Master Comics #72 (September 1946): "The Whistle That Wouldn't Stop" |
| Marvel Family #4/4 (September 1946): "Sivana's Vampire" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #65 (September 1946): "The Invasion from Outer Space" |
| Captain Marvel, Jr. #44 (November 1946): "Captain Marvel, Jr. Becomes Too Strong" |
| Marvel Family #7/4 (December 1946): "The Radar Fiend" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #70 (March 1947): "Sivana's Fortune Teller" |
| Marvel Family #10 (April 1947): "The Sivana Family Strikes at the Marvel Family" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #71 (April 1947): "The Adventure in Time" |
| Whiz Comics #86 (June 1947): "Captain Marvel Fights the Sivana Family" |
| Marvel Family #15/4 (September 1947): "Condemned To Die" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #76/3 (September 1947): "Sivana's Jailbreaker" |
| Marvel Family #16 (October 1947): "The Marvel Family Has a Quarrel" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #78/2 (November 1947): "Captain Marvel Saves Sivana" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #80 (January 1948): "A Twice Told Tale" |
| Whiz Comics #94 (February 1948): "Captain Marvel Duels Sivana" |
| Marvel Family #21/4 (March 1948): "The Science Crimes" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #82 (March 1948): "Sivana Meets Aunt Minerva" |
| Marvel Family #23 (May 1948): "The Sivana Family Newspaper" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #84/2 (May 1948): "Billy Batson's Phobias" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #85 (June 1948): "The Freedom Train" |
| Whiz Comics #100 (August 1948): "The Hundred Horrors" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #88/4 (September 1948): "The Radio Plague" |
| Marvel Family #28 (October 1948): "Captain Marvel's Dilemma" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #89/4 (October 1948): "Captain Marvel Fights Silent Sound" |
| Marvel Family #31 (January 1949): "The Great Hunger" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #92/3 (January 1949): "Captain Marvel Becomes a Jinx" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #94/2 (March 1949): "Sivana's Understudy" |
| Marvel Family #34 (April 1949): "Sivana's Miniature Menace" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #95 (April 1949): "The Great Polar Ice Cap" |
| Whiz Comics #109 (May 1949): "Sivana's Family Tree" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #97 (June 1949): "The World Without Water" |
| Whiz Comics #112 (August 1949): "Sivana's Booby Traps" |
| Marvel Family #38 (August 1949): "The Extinct Instincts" |
| Marvel Family #39/4 (September 1949): "The Mightiest Meteor Shower" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #100 (September 1949): "The Plot Against the Universe" |
| Marvel Family #42/4 (December 1949): "Captain Marvel Rescues Billy Batson" |
| Whiz Comics #117 (January 1950): "Sivana's Science" |
| Marvel Family #43 (January 1950): "The March of the Grass" |
| Marvel Family #46 (April 1950): "The Day Civilization Vanished" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #107/2 (April 1950): "Sivana's Better Self" |
| Whiz Comics #122 (June 1950): "The Anger Ray" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #110 (July 1950): "The American Century" |
| Marvel Family #50/4 (August 1950): "Sivana's Good Inventions" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #113 (October 1950): "The Throwback Terror" |
| Whiz Comics #127 (November 1950): "Sivana's Heavy Gravity" |
| Marvel Family #54/4 (December 1950): "Sivana's Marvel Disintegrator" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #116 (January 1951): "The World Without Fire" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #118 (March 1951): "Sivana's Sound Plague" |
| Whiz Comics #134 (June 1951): "The Amazing Island Thief" |
| Marvel Family #60/4 (June 1951): "The Worldwide Hatred" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #121 (June 1951): "Sivana's Time Trap" |
| Marvel Family #62 (August 1951): "Sivana's Undersea Kingdom" |
| Whiz Comics #138 (October 1951): "The Mystery of the Red Herring" |
| Marvel Family #64 (October 1951): "Sivana's Terrible Television Plot" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #125/2 (October 1951): "The Dilemma of the Double Identity" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #127 (December 1951): "Sivana's Voodoo Curse" |
| Whiz Comics #142 (February 1952): "Sivana's Private Kingdom" |
| Marvel Family #68 (February 1952): "The Capture of the Universe" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #130 (March 1952): "Double Doom" |
| Whiz Comics #145 (May 1952): "The Underground Mystery Menace" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #134 (July 1952): "Sivana's Capsule Kingdom" |
| Marvel Family #75 (September 1952): "The Great Space Struggle" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #136 (September 1952): "Captain Marvel Battles Hallucination" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #138/3 (November 1952): "The World's Maddest Ghost" |
| Marvel Family #80/2 (February 1953): "The World Jumbler" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #141/2 (February 1953): "The Man Without a World" |
| Whiz Comics #154 (April 1953): "Sivana's Monster World" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #144/2 (May 1953): "The Stolen Shazam Powers" |
| Marvel Family #84 (June 1953): "The Triple Trap of Terror" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #146/4 (July 1953): "Sivana and the First People" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #148 (September 1953): "Sivana Saves Captain Marvel" |
| Captain Marvel Adventures #150/2 (November 1953): "The World of Too Many Sivanas" |
| Shazam! #1/2 (February 1973): "The World's Wickedest Plan" |
| Shazam! #6 (October 1973): "Better Late than Never" |
| Shazam! #7/2 (November 1973): "What's in a Name? Doomsday!" |
| Shazam! #11/3 (March 1974): "The Year without a Christmas" |
| Shazam! #14 (September-October 1974): "The Evil Return of the Monster Society" |
| Shazam! #25/2 (September-October 1976): "The Bicentennial Villain" |
| Shazam! #26 (November-December 1976): "The Case of the Kidnapped Congress" |
| Shazam! #27 (January-February 1977): "Fear in Philadelphia" |
| Shazam! #28 (March-April 1977): "The Return of Black Adam" |
| Shazam! #29 (May-June 1977): "Ibac Meets Aunt Minerva" |
| Shazam! #30 (July-August 1977): "Captain Marvel Fights the Man of Steel" |
| World's Finest Comics #253/4 (October-November 1978): "The Captain and the King" |
| World's Finest Comics #264/5 (August-September 1980): "The Monster Society Strikes Back" |
| World's Finest Comics #266/5 (December 1980-January 1981): "Sivana's Space Armada" |
| World's Finest Comics #267/5 (February-March 1981): "Assault on the Rock of Eternity" |
| World's Finest Comics #273/5 (November 1981): "Sivana's Nobel" |
| DC Comics Presents Annual #3 (1984): "With One Magic Word" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 (October 1985): "Beyond the Silent Night" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #9 (December 1985): "War Zone" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #10 (January 1986): "Death at the Dawn of Time!" |