Teenage archeology student Billy Batson was spending his school holidays on a trip to the ancient Inca caves, where he found and translated an extraordinairy message carved onto a large wall. It gave him a formula, which when spoken aloud actually gave the man the power to shrink to tiny size and develop instant super strength:

Sulfur + Hydrogen2 + Arsenic + Americium. Taking science classes at school as well, Billy knew that it abbreviated to SHAsAm, and used the acronymn to help him memorize the formula.

When spoken in reverse, the formula restored him to normal size and strength.

Billy could hardly wait to return to the United States of America. For years he had held a crush on an older girl in her twenties named Beautia Sivana. She was a brilliant scientist, and he had always felt that she was out of his league. When she’d invented a super strength + invulnerability formula  as well, on the one hand he felt honoured that she’d confided her secret in him as her closest friend. On the other, when she put on a mask and costume to become a super heroine, he felt even less able to keep up with her. Now he had a chance, as a super hero himself.

He made a tiny costume of his own, and carried it around in his pockets. When he heard of a bank robbery, he spoke his formula and reduced to tiny size, slipping out of his clothes. He left them in the bushes in the park opposite the bank, put on his costume and went to the bank. He punched one fleeing thief in the shin, knocking him over with his super strenght, and then noticed  that Beautia Sivana, in her guise as Marvelous Maiden, had caught the rest.

“Thanks for the help,” she said, picking him up and walking away, “To whom do I owe my gratitude?”

“I call myself Mighty Midget,” said Billy, “If you take me to somewhere private, I’ll show you my secret identity.”

“Alright,” said Marvelous Maiden, and walked off to a private part of the park. It was a weekday with most people at work. Apart from a few mothers picniccing with their babies, they had the park to themselves, and nobody was in the section now occuppied by Marvelous Maiden and Mighty Midget*.

She held him in front of her face, so that she could see his tiny head clearly, as he removed his mask.

“Billy! What a surprise! How did this happen?” she asked.

“I was exploring the Inca caves, when I found a formula carved onto a wall. It gives me these powers when I say it. Now I can be a super hero like you, and help you to work on cases.”

She moved him closer to her face and pressed her huge lovely lips to his face. They enveloped his entire head and felt wonderful.

“Wow!” said Billy, when he had a chance to draw back for air.

She lowered her other hand and gently took hold of him from behind and held him facing downward. He looked down at her elegant pale pink dress with light blue dots on it. He felt her releasing her grip a little, and wondered if he would land softly in her lap.

“I’ve always liked you, Billy, even more like this,” said Beautia.

Just as her grip loosened completely, he saw her tongue come out below him. It was the most enormous sparkling view only millimetres below him. Within a second, he came to rest on her tongue and then she drew it back into her mouth, taking him with it. Before he could think what to do next or wonder why she had done this, she gulped him into her throat. The next thing he knew he was sliding down into her tummy, and starting to dissolve.

He was still trying to work out why she had swallowed him, when he lost all consciousness.