I think the only comic I have in which Rick is Captain Marvel is a Spidey team-up with awful Gil Kane/Jim Mooney art (I like the art of those two gentlemen very much, elsewhere, but not on Spider-Man and not together).
Ahhh, MARVEL TEAM-UP #16, the story with Spider-Man and Captain Marvel vs. the Basilisk, the counter-argument to the idea that dead doesn't mean dead in comics. My old pal Basil Elks (get it?) croaked years ago and hasn't been seen since, and it's doubtful he'll ever be back. I love Len Wein's plots, but I agree with you about the art; I expect better from Kane. Though I believe Mike Esposito inked that one, not Mooney.
I always liked that about Marvel Comics, the "unification" (is that the right word?) of their world, being one in which the Hulk's gofer can happen to become the secret identity stand-in for Captain Marvel.
Agreed. It was interesting to see Roy Thomas bring this kind of interconnectivity to Earth-2 with his ALL-STAR SQUADRON; for a while there Earth-2 was way more interesting than Earth-1!
Maybe you could clear it up, Julian, but from my memory of the story, Rick doesn't become Captain Marvel so much as as being replaced by him. (Where did Rick go?)
Yeah, that's about the size of it. They'd switch their atoms on earth's dimension by banging the Nega-Bands together. When one was on earth, the other was floating aimlessly in the Negative Zone, able to communicate with the other telepathically.
Captain Marvel finally was able to escape from the Negative Zone and be on earth at the same time as Rick, by tagging along when the Fantastic Four left the NZ after a battle with Annihilus. This was done around the start of the Kree-Skrull Wars.