Beautia Sivana

BEAUTIA SIVANA

Real Name: Beautia Sivana

Class: Parallel Earth (Earth-S) human

Occupation: Social worker, formerly empress of Venus, criminal

Group Affiliation: Sivana Family

Known Relatives: Georgia Sivana (half-sister), Magnificus Sivana (brother), Thaddeus Sivana (father), Thaddeus Sivana, Jr. (half-brother)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Fawcett City, formerly Venus, Earth-S

First Appearance: Whiz Comics #3 (Fawcett) (April, 1940)

Powers: Beautia was surpassingly gorgeous and charismatic.

History: Beautia was one of the children of mad scientist Sivana, who raised his family on Venus, and made Beautia empress of the planet. Although she first went along with her father's evil schemes, her true good nature emerged when she rebelled against him to aid his foes the Marvel Family.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #4) - The Lieutenant Marvels visited Billy Batson, excited for his next broadcast. Sivana, with his daughter Beautia in tow, was stalking Billy, and ordered his thugs to run him down with a car. Billy spotted them in time to change into Captain Marvel and thrash the goons. Billy did a broadcast on WHIZ about the near hit-and-run and how he was saved by Captain Marvel. Sterling Morris was thrilled by the broadcast, but was worried that Sivana would go after Billy again. Sivana told his goons to kidnap Billy Batson, and Beautia spoke up, saying her dad should just leave Billy alone. He blew her off, saying Billy stood in his way as ruler of the universe. His thugs kidnapped the Lieutenant Marvels, but Captain Marvel managed to trail the crooks back to Sivana’s hideout. Sivana tied up the Lieutenants and put them under a bladed pendulum death trap. Marvel burst on the scene and his Lieutenants said Shazam! turning into Marvels. They thrashed Sivana’s gang while Sivana fled, and found Beautia tied up in a closet. She said her father had turned against her because she questioned his methods, and warned them Sivana was going to blow up the hideout. The Marvels flew her to safety as the hideout blew up. The explosion was extensive, and Beautia wept, fearing her father had blown himself up, but Captain Marvel comforted her, saying Sivana was far too devious to die by his own hand.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #5) - Billy Batson covered a screening of Captain Marvel films for the Municipal Orphan’s Home. Beautia Sivana was hosting the event, and nearly swooned when she told Billy that Captain Marvel himself would be appearing. Billy was suspicious, since o one had contacted him about making an appearance. The show’s benefactor introduced a fake Captain Marvel, who abducted orphan Katinka. Billy changed into Captain Marvel and confronted the benefactor, who turned out to be Sivana in disguise. Sivana escaped, and Marvel willingly went to the police station to answer questions about Katina’s kidnapping. An ambassador from Mentonia arrived, declaring that Katinka was the princess of his country who’d disappeared shortly after her birth, and he demanded her back. Beautia told the police she’d testify against Marvel, and had lost all faith in him. Marvel refused to be arrested while Katinka was in peril and flew off to rescue her. Sivana kidnapped Beautia, telling her he was responsible for kidnapping Katinka so he could ransom her, but didn’t want his daughter talking. The fake Captain Marvel helped her escape and drove her to Toughtown, where Katinka was being kept. Sivana showed up again, saying he was only teasing Beautia by giving her hope of rescuing Katinka. He intended to implicate her in the kidnapping alongside Captain Marvel because he wanted to punish her for turning against her evil family. He explained that the fake Marvel was actually heavyweight boxer Bummy Bond, who’d undergone facial reconstruction for the ruse. Captain Marvel showed up with the police, and to prove the kidnapper was an imposter he knocked him out with one blow. Beautia said she’d return Katinka to her family, and apologized to Marvel for being too quick to judge him, but Marvel wasn’t worried about it, saying that everyone made mistakes.

(Shazam! I #1) - <1953> The mayor of Fawcett City threw a celebration at city hall to honor the Marvel Family, with a number of their friends and fans in attendance, including Beautia Sivana. Beautia's wicked relatives the Sivana Family chose that moment to strike from Sivana's spaceship, hitting the crowd with a vortex transporter paralyzer ray, drawing them into space, and encasing them in a globe of suspendium, a compound that would put them in suspended animation. Sivana, Junior slapped his dad on the back for a job well done, causing Sivana to lose control of his spaceship and crashing into the suspendium, trapping the villains with their victims. The globe orbited the sun for decades until the heat of the sun began to melt the suspendium, freeing the Marvel Family. They realized the suspendium was being pulled into the sun's orbit, and had to act fast to save the lives of everyone inside the globe. The Sivana Family revived and flew their spaceship to safety while the Marvel Family pushed the globe back to Earth before smashing it, freeing their friends and returning to Fawcett. Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel, Jr. went into space to search for the Sivanas, while Captain Marvel checked out one of Sivana's old mountain hideouts. He found the Sivana Family working on a death projector, which Sivana fired up, hoping it would destroy most of Earth's population, making him ruler of the world. Marvel smashed their machine and took the Sivanas to jail, but they all shared a laugh over how happy they were to be a live and out of suspended animation.

(Shazam! I #4) - April 1st rolled around, and Billy Batson was depressed because he hadn't celebrated his birthday in decades, and after being gone from Fawcett so long he thought nobody remembered it was his birthday. Billy returned home, where all his friends, including Beautia threw him a surprise birthday party.

(Shazam! I #11) - Billy Batson, Mary and Freddy attended Sterling Morris’ Christmas Eve party along with all of their friends, including Beautia Sivana, Joan Jameson, the Potters, Sunny Sparkle, Mr. Tawky-Tawny and Uncle Dudley. The Sivana Family groused in their lab about how much they hated Christmas, and Sivana activated his Cosmic Clock, speeding up time so Christmas day would only last 10 minutes. The Marvel Family went into action when they noticed time was speeding up around them, and they saved Santa Claus, who was having trouble controlling his sped up reindeer. Santa told them the Sivana Family were trying to ruin Christmas, so the Marvels flew to the Sivanas’ lab and made short work of them. Combining their strength the Marvels stopped the Cosmic clock and pushed its’ hands backwards so Christmas day could proceed at a normal rate. The Marvels visited the Sivanas in jail, and said they found an appropriate Christmas present, the first the Sivanas had ever gotten, for the family that proclaimed themselves the rightful rulers of the universe. The present turned out to be a book entitled The Universe, and the Marvels returned to Morris’ party to celebrate the holiday with their friends.

Comments: Created by Bill Parker & C.C. Beck.

Beautia was originally published by Fawcett Comics, which DC obtained the rights to in 1972.

Beautia received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #21 under the Sivana Family entry.

Beautia's appearance in Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #4, 5 was reprinted in Shazam! Archives #4.