He fought real threats that were portrayed in strange occult ways in order to make them more intimidating and fantastic.Ĭaptain Battle made his last anthology appearance in Silver Streak #21 in 1942 and his final solo appearance in 1943.
This was the sort of stuff that would define Captain Battle’s career. He even picks up a subservient Asian man who helps him rescue all the other men.Ĭaptain Battle proved to be a popular hero, so popular that he wound up getting his own kid sidekick and cover appearances.Īlso, he fought Nazi cultist skull unicorns, It’s worth mentioning that these creatures used to be humans, a point that the Captain brings up two issues later when he invents a serum that changes them back. He discovers that the birds fear radio beams and uses this knowledge to kill them all in the final page. The Captain is kidnapped and dragged before the Black Dragon, who attempts to turn the hero into a birdman.
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This isn’t a one and done thing, the Dissolvo gets used pretty often throughout the series when Captain Battle decides to fight actual Nazis.Ĭall me old fashioned, but I’m willing to bet that using a weapon that dissolves your enemies into goo is a violation of the Geneva Convention and human decency. He showcases his Dissolvo gun on some of the birdmen and it is goddamn terrifying. Naturally, Captain Battle swoops in and saves the day. When you fly around and refer to your commander as “your cluckness” you lose all sense of foreboding and terror. They’re big, strong, and kind of intimidating, These birdmen who are attacking the ships belong to a villain named “The Black Dragon” and are called “deaglos”. He uses this opportunity to showcase two of his other inventions: the Luceflyer jet pack and the Dissolvo gun.įull disclosure, I think “Luceflyer” is probably the coolest name for a jet pack I can think of. In his first adventure Captain Battle fights off a race of giant birdmen who are attacking a group of battleships. To help him he has inventions such as the “curvoscope”, a telescope that can see anywhere in the world…somehow.Īlso, he has the help of a pretty lady secretary, because this is the 1940’s and apparently that was all women were good for.
He vowed that a war like that should never happen again (spoilers: that didn’t go so well) and resolves to use his inventions to stop conflicts from happening. He was a kid scientist in the first World War and lost an eye to the conflict. Like most Golden Age heroes, Captain Battle’s origin story is quick and dealt with in a single page. Jack is also the more famous of the two, since he helped create another superhero for Lev Gleason Publications called Dardevil. Of the two, Jack is the only one who had a picture, The character was created by artist Jack Binder and writer Cal Formes. Our hero made his first appearance in another title Silver Streak Comics in May of 1941. Today we’re going to look at a super hero so similar to Captain America that when the creators were deciding a name all they had to do was look at the next letter in the alphabet: Captain Battle.Ĭaptain Battle was published by a company called Lev Gleason Publications, a company that is most famous for publishing the first true crime comic: Crime Does Not Pay. Was one of the most popular setups of the time…for pretty obvious reasons. The Superman/Captain Marvel story was one that played out a lot in the 1940’s and Captain America’s shtick of “soldier who goes off to Europe to fight thinly disguised Nazis”, Rip him off to huge success and have the inevitable court case bankrupt your company! You have an super strong human who fights for truth and justice? The phrase “success spawns imitators” is something that applies to all art, but it is especially true with comic books. We all know who Captain America is right? Warning, there are some pretty awful depictions of Japanese people in this article.
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